Basket Making with Kudzu Mama
2025-10-25 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | The Kelly Fitzpatrick Center for the Arts, 301 Hill Street, Wetumpka, AL, 36092
Students will make a free form basket made from whole and split kudzu vines. Some other locally harvested vines/flexible branches may be included for variety. All materials will be provided. Just bring your sense of adventure and creativity!

* Maximum class size of 8 – Supplies included

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Morning Sketch
2025-10-31 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-07 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-21 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-05 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-12 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-19 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-16 10:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-23 10:00 - 13:00 and 8 more dates
Every Friday, we invite everyone and anyone to come “sketch” in the gallery and on the porch! New and experienced artists (or authors or craftsmen) alike can pull up a chair, sit on the porch, and indulge in the arts. Enjoy fellow artists’ company, enjoy the view, and come sketch with us!

3-Day Oil Painting Workshop with Alisa Beck
2025-11-06 10:00 - 2025-11-08 16:00, 2025-11-07 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-08 10:00 - 12:00
Painting Cows in Oils with Alisa Beck
Dive into the world of oil painting in this 3-day workshop with artist Alisa Beck. This class is designed for beginner to intermediate level painters looking to paint cows in the landscape. Their unique hide patterns offer fantastic opportunities for texture and color study. Often found outdoors in pastures, cows are ideal for capturing the effects of natural light on their form. Artists can explore the rich variations in the whites, blacks, browns, and reds of their coats as sunlight hits them.
What You’ll Learn: You will master the fundamentals of working with oil paint, including mixing, blending, and layering. We’ll explore essential concepts like composition, value, and color theory, and develop techniques for translating a photo reference into a finished painting with confidence. You’ll complete at least one finished oil painting and perhaps more, depending on your skill level and pace.
Details:

Recommended Skill Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Cost: $300 for Kelly members OR $350 for Non-members for all three class sessions
Basic Supplies included – You are welcome to bring your own oils, mediums, brushes, palettes, canvases, or other supplies!
Class limit: Minimum of 4 and Maximum of 10

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Interested in Kelly member discounts on classes? Membership only starts at $50 a year!

Registration: A complete supply list (for items like brushes, palette, and canvases) will be included with your registration confirmation.

Paint Day with Alisa Beck
2025-11-12 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-10 10:00 - 15:00
Grab your art supplies, and join us for a communal paint day, organized by Alisa Beck! Change your scenery and join your fellow artists as you draw, paint, and create your latest works of art. You may come and go any time, and it’s free to join in!
You may also opt to have personalized teacher instruction from Alisa Beck directly for $50.

Circle of Painters
2026-01-21 10:00 - 15:00, 2026-01-31 10:00 - 15:00
A guided painting practice with Alisa Beck, Circle of Painters is a small, supportive group of artists who gather to paint, learn, and grow together. Open to oil, acrylic, watercolor, and mixed media, each session offers guided instruction, shared conversation, and time to work in a spacious gallery setting (here at The Kelly!). This is a place for returning to your practice, deepening your voice, and painting in community.
$50 per session – Payable directly to Instructor
** January 14th session rescheduled to January 21st **

The Path to Intentional Intuitive Art: 2-Day Intermediate Oil Painting Workshop
2026-01-26 08:30 - 15:00, 2026-01-27 08:30 - 15:30
This course is designed to help you find your way through a plethora of rules and instinctively working out your path on your art journey. The goals of this class is to help you learn the rules so well that painting becomes instinct and to find your style and your goal for your work for your artistic path. So bring your subject matter to paint from – something you genuinely want to paint – to this intermediate oil painting class and unlock your style!

Recommended Skill Level: Intermediate
Cost: $125 for Kelly members OR $150 for non-members
Basic Supplies included (Limited Color Palette) – Instructor’s Palette is below, in case you wish to bring your own oils and supplies.
Class Size: Minimum 6 – Maximum of 16

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Interested in Kelly member discounts on classes? Membership starts at only $50 for an entire year!

Instructor Jill Holt Portfolio:

Instructor’s Palette:

Mars Black (from Master’s Touch)
Permelba White (from Weber)
Lemon (Windsor Newton)
Cad Yellow Light (Winsor Newton)
Cadmium Medium (Winsor Newton)
Shiva Orange (Richeson)
Ultramarine Blue (Richeson)
Prussian (Michael Harding)
Magnesium (Gamblin)
Red Oxide Transparent (Richeson)
Capucine Red Deep (Vasari)
Permanent Rose (Winsor Newton)
Alizarin Crimson (Williamsburg)
Yellow Ochre Light (Rembrandt)
Transparent Yellow Oxide (Lucas)
Adobe (Vasari)
Viridian (Gamblin)

Silversmithing: Level 1 Workshop
2026-01-29 10:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-30 10:00 - 16:00
Learn the basics of silversmithing from Morning Sherrod, who has 16 years of experience! Learn how to use a butane hand torch and flex shaft, and pick up new skills such as paillon, sweat and pick soldering, cutting with shears, hammering, texturing, stamping, and bezel stone setting. Don’t know what a patina is or what any of these skills are? Or maybe you dabbled before and want to shake off the dust? Then this is the class for you!
Space is very limited — sign up early to reserve your spot!

Recommended Skill Level: Beginner (Any) – Due to materials and tools, 18 years and older only
Cost: $200 for Kelly members OR $215 for non-members
Supplies Included and take home at least 2 projects
Class Size: Minimum 4 – Maximum of 6

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Create Your Own Ceramic Platter using the Sgraffito Technique
2026-02-14 10:00 - 13:00
Come and get creative with clay! No experience is needed. In this 3-hour workshop, you’ll design and decorate your ceramic platter using the sgraffito technique, a fun method of carving through colored slips to reveal beautiful designs. Maria, your instructor, will guide you step by step; Just come and enjoy the process!
Your finished platter will be glazed, fired after class, and ready for pickup in about two weeks.
Space is limited—sign up now to save your spot!

Recommended Skill Level: Any
Cost: $85 for Kelly members OR $100 for non-members
Supplies Provided – Take your platter home in two weeks!
Class Size: Minimum 4 – Maximum of 12

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Instructor Maria Auad Portfolio:

Painting With Authority
2026-02-26 09:00 - 16:30
Join Nan Cunningham for a full day workshop offering learning and fun to build your individual painting skills. This workshop will focus on helping students create interesting, original oil or acrylic paintings from the start by teaching how to choose a subject, create a design that works, and using color effectively. A still life will be provided.
Details:

Recommended Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Cost: $175 for Kelly members OR $185 for non-members
Class Limit: Maximum of 12 and Minimum of 8
Supplies Provided – You are welcome to bring your own oils, mediums, brushes, palettes, canvases, or other supplies!

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Interested in Kelly member discounts on classes? Membership only starts at $50 a year!

Instructor Nan Cunningham Portfolio:
