Donate to the Herrig Center for the ARTS-Giving Tuesday 2025

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Your general support helps Herrig Center for the Arts to:

    • Bring national talent to the community for exhibits & workshops, such as AWS, Southern Watercolor Society and Oil Painters of America
    • Provide opening art receptions every month that are free and open to the public
    • Add dynamic and relevant visual arts classes and workshops that you ask for like Tim Saternow, David Lobenberg, and other artists
    • Price classes competitively – 20% less on average than other art centers
    • Support the local and growing artist community with training, exhibition space and an outlet for selling their work
    • Offer an Arts & Healing Program Free to all participants
    • Provide scholarships to children in need to art classes – 35 – 50 a year
    • Host a annual exhibit for the Manatee County School District – showcasing the work of over 200 K-12 students
    • Host Free exhibits and classes for emerging artists and non-profit groups like Just For Girls

Session 1: $1000

Session 2: $750

Session 3: $500

Session 4: $250

Raku – Fire and Smoke, Ted Camp 2025-2026

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Ted Camp, Beginner – Advanced
Thursdays 9:00-12:00

Using previously developed construction skills, students will produce either hand-built or wheel-thrown work and apply special glazes to their bisque-fired work PRIOR to each class. During class, those pieces will be fired quickly and students will then remove their work from the hot kiln while the glazes are still molten. They will then place their work into smoking chambers where the glazes will develop a serendipitous variety of surface and colored effects unique only to raku while rapidly cooling. In addition to regular raku glazing, students are encouraged to try naked raku, obvara, and horse-hair techniques as alternative choices to glazing for their surface patterns. Class fee includes 25 lbs. of clay, glazes, and firing.

S1: Sep 4, 11, 18, 25, Oct 2
S2: Oct 9, 16, 23, 30, Nov 6
S3: Nov 13, 20, Dec 4, 11, 18
S4: Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, Feb 5 Class Full Call For Waitlist
S5: Feb 12, 19, 26, Mar 5, 12
S6: Mar 19, (no Mar 26), Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 Class Full Call For Waitlist

 

$190 HC Members
$215 Future Members

Nights Out: Creative Fun For Everyone!

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Come with a friend, go home with a piece of art you’ve created!

Includes all supplies, complimentary beer or wine and snacks.
Ages 21+, Check our website for last-minute additions!

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Tree of Life Pendant with Joey Redman

S2: March 13, 6:00-9:00

Design and craft your own meaningful Tree of Life pendant in this hands-on jewelry-making experience.  Learn basic jewelry techniques at a fun and creative evening and take home your creation.  We will be working with copper wire and your choice: with or without beads!

$45

Wine & Snacks provided! Bring your friends. 21+ only

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Play With Your Pens & Pencils!

With Jerry King

S3: April 10, 6:00-9:00

We will be learning how to draw illustrations and cartoons in both black & white and color.  Bring home your creations!  Creating art is only half the fun.  You will also learn how to make a living doing it from the famous cartoonist Jerry King, one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.  His work has appeared in thousands of greeting cards, magazines, books, newspapers and children’s books.   This is going to be fun, fun, fun!

$45

Wine & Snacks provided! Bring your friends. 21+ only

Our Location

Herrig Center for the Arts
888 3rd Ave West
Bradenton, FL 34205

M-Sat 9-5pm. Closed Sunday

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941.746.2862
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