Gift Store Opens at The Village Art Studio. Jewelry, Crafts, Candles & Art Supplies

Stop in and see our new Gift inventory. We now carry irresistible Polymer Clay Jewelry. These earrings and necklaces are all hand made locally. Our gift store is filled with items such as custom glassware, incense burners and hand decorated wine stoppers.  A wonderful local place to buy unique hand crafted gifts.

Our ever growing gift store

Beautiful hand decorated glassware

Useful and Enchanting

Gift Baskets…add things to customize it.

Hand made incense burners

The earrings are delightful!

A bonanza of hand made necklaces!

Adult Painting Classes in Gilchrist County. Art Lessons in Acrylics, Watercolor, & Oil Paints.

The Village Art Studio has Adult Painting workshops. Each workshop is 3 hrs and you walk out with a finished Painting suitable for hanging!. Choose from Watercolors or Acrylics for now. An Oil Painting Instructor is coming on board soon also. Workshops are the first 2 Mondays or Tuesdays of the month from 10 AM-1:00 PM. Saturdays or evening are available also. Bring your favorite landscape picture or work from one of ours. After a few lessons, we’ll be painting outside! Our clients come from Levy, Alachua, Gilchrist and surrounding counties. Call 352-949-1699 to schedule your workshop now! Only $30 includes canvas and all supplies for watercolor or Acrylics!

My Tire Swing

An Acrylic Masterpiece

Watercolor Still Life

First Painting Class

Pottery, Sculptures, Tiles & More! Birthday Parties too! Come Play with Clay In Gilchrist County!

Whether you live in Bell, Chiefland, Trenton or another one of our country towns in North Central Florida, it’s great to know you have a professional Art Studio in your area. Here at the Village Art Studio we are constantly adding different mediums to our curriculum. Clay is a favorite! We use the Pottery wheel, we make coil pots and we are experimenting with combining clays for  even more interesting results. We host Children’s Birthday parties too

Zac & Savana on Wheel

All shapes & sizes

Love Ceramics!

Party Fun!

Making our own Ice Cream ‘Works of Art”

Just pick one of our projects, let us know in advance how many people will be attending, and we can transform the studio into the Dream Party Room for any occasion!

Clay and Painting classes for Children and Adults in Gilchrist County Florida

Did you know our Art Studio in Bell, Florida is opened to all ages? We have Children’s art classes and Adult art classes and  one day workshops. We also have jewelry making lessons, pottery wheel classes and of course we teach painting too. Stain glass classes will be starting in the Spring. Our clients come from Bell, Chiefland, Branford, Alachua, Trenton, Old Town and other towns near Gainesville, Fl. Where else can you come hang out in a beautiful country setting for a day and learn art from an artist that has perfective her techniques after studying in Europe and Asia? Besides a Master’s Degree in Art Education, our lead instructor, Jeanie, has been awarded a Special Study Certificate in Asia Art after spending a summer studying Art in China. Call and schedule your workshop this week. Learn how to do traditional Asian Art on paper or sculpt a Chinese Dragon. Adult Classes start at $15.00 includes all supplies. 352-949-1699

New Year..New Children’s Art Classes..New Adult Art Classes…New Gift Shop In Bell

It’s a New Year with new exciting schedules. Children’s Art Classes are scheduled around 3 week sessions. Space is filling up. Let us know when you plan to attend to save a spot. Ten is our limit. Don’t get sent away!  Remember, our new Teenage Classes of portfolio quality lessons are now on Thursday @ 3:15. Plan to be here until 5PM.   Adult classes will be Mon, Tues, Fri from 10 AM-noon. We also  have new “make and take” projects including watercolors, mini acrylic paintings, polymerclay projects and more.

Our new gift shop will be opening in March 2012. You can find Art Kits, handmade crafts, painted ceramics, natural Bees Wax candles,  hand painted stationary and an abundance of uniques hand crafted gifts. Now one more country  gift shop opening to join the wonderful shopping  experience of Bell along with Lisa’s Boutique, Helping Hands Gift Shop, and the Mission Thrift Store.

Clay lessons in Native American Pottery. Ceramic Art Classes for Children & Adults

Coil Pottery!

What could be easier? Roll out a snake like shape with clay like you did when you were young( kinda like play doh)…..Stack ‘em up……and you have a great piece of pottery. A useful vessel to carry or store things.

You can go big, you can stay small. The exciting part of this project is anyone can roll a coil and build a wonderful pot. Changing the shape is so easy. Learn how to master this ancient craft in one simple lesson.  Call 352-949-1699 for information. We’re near Gainesville, Florida. on adult and children’s classes.

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About Village Art Studio

The Village Art Studio

Art Lessons & Studio Time In Bell, Florida

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The Village Art Studio Offers Affordable Art Lessons To The People Of Bell Florida, Gilchrist County And Surrounding Counties.

Adult Lessons

• Private
• Small Groups
• Girls Night Out
• Silk Painting

Children’s Classes

• Painting
• Drawing
• Clay And More

Disciplines & Services

• Painting
• Drawing
• Clay And More
• Hand Built Pottery
• Sculpture
• Pottery Wheel ( Yee-Haw! )
• Ceramics
• Glaze Bisque Ware
• Large Selections Of Ceramics
• We Fire For You!
• And more…..

What Are Some Of The Benefits Of Art ?
It

• Encourages Imagination
• Improves Cognitive Skills
• Improves Creative Abilities
• Improves Fine Motor Skills
• Improves Focusing Skills
• Improves Language Skills
• Improves Listening Skills
• Improves Problem Solving Skills
• Encourages Risk Taking
• Improves Social Skills
• Encourages Tolerance
• Encourages Uniqueness
• Improves The Sense Of Time And Place
• And more…..

Location

Village Art Studio

969 S. Main Street

Bell, Florida 32619

Contact Info

Call 352-949-1699 For More Information Today

Email

The Village Art Studio offers affordable art lessons to people of the community regardless of their ability to pay.

Donations are accepted to help us continue this mission.

Thank You

 

Village Art Studio

Art Lessons For Bell And Gilchrist County Florida

352-949-1699

New Art Class! Homemade Mosaic Garden Stepping Stone with Custom Ceramics

"Key to my heart" handmade clay designs to be fired

Here at the Village Art Studio we offer classes to make unique Garden Stepping-stones with a surprising ceramic component. You design your personalized names, sayings &  shapes from clay. We have an abundance of cookie cutters and forms for your use to help with your designs or unleash your creativity completely and make some free form shapes of your own.  After the clay is fired( baked), you get to glaze your homemade ceramic tiles anyway you choose. Then come back one more time for the mosaic part! Here’s where you have loads of fun and  also so be challenged! Remember you want to find just the right pieces of cracked studio tiles to place around your ceramic tiles to build a  successful stepping stone. Some people do random….some people plan ahead. Either way works!  We’ll  even do the grout for you. Classes are only $30.00 includes (3) 2 hr weekly workshops and ALL the supplies you need to complete one 12 X 12 concrete stepping stone.  Call 352-949-1699.  Ask for Jeanie

Stepping Stone from Local Business

Still warm from the kiln, these glazed pieces are ready!

Finished and Grouted

New Molds and Stamps Make Decorating Clay Tiles Fun & Easy

The “Before” unfired & unglazed

Beautiful finished Ceramic tiles

Colors & Textures

Gator world…. Are you ready?

Simple yet beautiful

Loads of clay stamping accessories have just arrived at the art studio! Make yourself a gator or other handmade tiles for the studio porch! Design custom tiles for a backsplash in your kitchen. By using our stamping technique, you can make unified and custom tiles.  Classes are in the works to learn this and other no- fail techniques to make jewelry, switch plates & plaques and more.