***This is a 2-day workshop. Meeting Saturday 3/13/26 and Sunday 3/14/26, 10am-2pm***
Traditional drawing processes can be used to explore alternative ways of depicting reality. This workshop will teach students to develop an open-ended approach to drawing that allows room for interpretation, for questioning the nature of vision, and for finding personal means of expression.
Required Supplies
14x17" drawing pad, eraser, and graphite pencils
Special Notes
Prereq: Drawing I or similar exp.
Instructor
Dennis Schmalstig
A Central Florida art educator since 1992 at Crealdé School of Art, Valencia College and Rollins College, Dennis Schmalstig, earned a B.F.A. from Wright State University in 1983 and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Delaware in 1987. He has exhibited his work since 1982 in commercial and university galleries, and in national competitions. He has had one-man exhibitions at the L.B. Jones and Susan Isaacs galleries in Wilmington, Delaware, at the Rikes Gallery at the University of Dayton, at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, and at the Daytona State College Fine Art Gallery. He has participated in small group shows such as “Representations” at Helio Galleries in New York, “Visionary Artists” and “Stories and Gestures” at the Jenkins Gallery at Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, Florida. His work has been reviewed by Victoria Donohue in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philip Bishop in the Orlando Sentinel and Patricia Madden in the Orlando Weekly.