Art Innovation Symposium Ormond Beach 2025

September 17 through 20, 2025
Ormond Beach Florida

Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens

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ISEA has a wonderful, fun-filled symposium planned for art inspiration, friendship, and educational enjoyment.
Hope you can join us!

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MORNING coffee and CHECK IN
10:00 to 10:30 AM Wednesday THROUGH FRIDAY

Two Day WORKSHOPS
WEDNESDAY & Thursday
10:30 AM TO 3:30 PM

What is Creativity and how do we access it? with Fran Gardner
Wednesday & Thursday, September 17 and 18
Cost $300.00

How do we access our creativity?
How do we challenge ourselves so that we keep learning, experimenting and pushing our boundaries?
Fran will guide us to new levels.

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Materials List and Course Description Bio

Memory Ware Mosaics with Gila Rayberg
Wednesday & Thursday, September 17 and 18

Cost: $345.00 (including materials fee)

Got old dishes that you no longer want and neither does the consignment store?
Preserve their sentimental value by breaking them and using them to create a work of art.
Gila will teach you how to use new tools and new ways of seeing what your pottery, dishes etc. can become.

Materials list and Course Description BIO

ONE DAY WORKSHOPs

Wednesday, September 17
10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Collage, Painting, and Drawing: with Judy Gilmer
Wednesday, September 17
Cost: $160.00 (including materials fee)

Explore different ways to approach this exciting mixed media process.
Open possibilities and create new pathways for your art.
Do you paint first, or paint after adhering your collage pieces? Does it matter which is first?
Should you soften, or emphasis the edges? Should you make your own collage paper, or use “found” paper.
Is one better than the other? How to make harmonious relationships and balance in your composition.
This class will give you the tools to explore different possibilities: to explore various techniques and ways

to produce the individual artwork that carries your signature style.

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Course Description and Materials List Bio

Thursday, September 18
10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Design Elements With Mixed Media with Christine Peloquin
Thursday, September 18
Cost: $150.00

Learn the joys of mixed media collage. This workshop will focus on the fundamentals of collage and design
and challenge artists to unlock and find their inner voice. Artists will be working with
gelli plate printing on paper and fabrics to create original and colorful mono-prints. Artists will use the
mono-prints they have made, along with papers, fabrics, and found objects to create collages on wood,
canvas boards or even over past work. Artists are encouraged to incorporate some of their own prior artwork or their own personal stash of fabrics and paper, into new pieces. Christine's goal is to create a fun time that introduces new techniques in a comfortable learning environment to enhance where students already are.

Materials list and Course Description Bio

Friday, September 19, 2025
10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Chinese Brush Painting with Ann Kozeliski
Cost: $160.00 (including materials fee)

Is your image there or not?

Artists will have the opportunity to do Chinese brush painting on an organza panel

to create a work of art that appears transparent but morphs into opaque!

Wow!!! What a magical feat!

Course Description and Bio

Batik Techniques with Muffy Clark Gill

Friday, September 19

Cost $175.00 (including materials fee)

Learn traditional Batik dyeing techniques with Muffy Clark Gill.
Students will design and create their own stencil and apply it to fabric and then dye.
They will learn how to incorporate their creations with new media to create new work.

Course Description and Bio

Dyes with Native Plants Workshop with Aida Tejada & Deborah Rosental
Friday, September 19
Cost: $170.00 (including materials fee)

Artists will use plants native to Florida to create dyes.
They will learn how to extract color from the plants and use them in art projects.

Course Description and Materials List Bios

Half Day Workshop

Friday, September 19

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

It’s Not Just a Gourd Workshop with Deborah Hildinger
Friday, September 19
Cost: $85.00 (including materials fee)

Learn how to transform a lowly gourd to new heights, namely a sculpture and a work of art.

Workshop Description Bio

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Visit New Smyrna Beach Art District
SATURDAY, September 20, 2025
10: 00 am - 3:00 pm

Arts on Douglas, Atlantic center of the arts,

Hub on canal,

Jane's Art Center (Ceramics studio and gallery)

With a stop for lunch

Cost: $20.00

LET'S CELEBRATE TOGETHER!

Opening Reception and Awards Presentation
Thursday, September 18, 5:30 – 8:00 pm

Join us for a very exciting opening night reception and presentation of Awards and new Signature, Nautilus Fellow, and Master Fellow levels to artists. This is a wonderful time to view INNOVATIONS 2025 and mingle with fellow ISEA members and guests, community artists, art collectors and the public.

Images from the Gallery in Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens

Celebration Dinner
In the gallery space at the

Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Garden
Friday, September 19, 2025, 6:00 – 9:00 pm

COST: $65 per person, Guests are welcome to attend!

It’s time to Celebrate! Our final evening together will be one of celebration and entertainment, with a delicious meal and fellowship. What a spectacular way to celebrate a wonderful week of art making and camaraderie with all our artist friends and guests.

things to do in the ORMOND BEACH area

Must Experience THE GRANADA BRIDGE

The Granada Bridge is a high-clearance bridge that spans

the Halifax River and Intracoastal Waterway linking the mainland and beach peninsula parts of Ormond Beach,

Volusia County, Florida. It was the first bridge to be built

over the Halifax River.The Casements, along with City Hall Plaza, Fortunato Park, and Riverbridge Park reside at the

four corners of Ormond Beach's Granada Bridge,

whichgive their collective name to the annual

"Four CornersFestival" in Ormond Beach.

RELAX AND SIT A SPELL IN

FORTUNATO PARK

Fortunato Park is a 2.6 acre riverfront park, located

just east of the Granada Bridge across from
Rockefeller Gardens.

The park offers scenic views of the Halifax River. The park is also home to the Ormond Hotel Cupola, which is a historic landmark. Paved walking trails surround the grounds.

THE CASEMENTS

The Casements, named for the large hand-cut casement windows that adorn the mansion, has been beautifully restored to function as the Cultural Center for the City of Ormond Beach, Florida. Set on the shore of the Halifax River, and just two blocks from the Atlantic Ocean, the late John D. Rockefeller's winter home is known as "The Jewel of Ormond Beach." The Casements has been officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated as a Florida Heritage Site.

Conveniently located near all that Ormond Beach has to offer including shopping, restaurants, and pristine white sand beaches... make The Casements part of your trip to Central Florida!

ORMOND BEACH

Located at the northern end of the Daytona Beach area, Ormond Beach is an exceptional family vacation destination known for its beautiful natural beach, parks and gardens, scenic loop, elegant homes, historical landmarks, and cultural offerings. Travelers enjoy the small-town feel of its downtown shopping and arts area on Granada Boulevard – as well as its eclectic eateries – while a visit to Tomoka State Park (located along the river) is a great outing for kids and adults alike.

TAKE ME TO THE TOMOKA STATE PARK

ON THE ORMOND SCENIC LOOP

Come experience a unique and special part of old Florida you won't soon forget!

Ormond Scenic Loop and Trail (OSLT) is a 34 mile double loop of roadways traversing some of the most beautiful and diverse natural scenery remaining in all of

coastal central Florida.

There is ready access to the Atlantic Ocean, North Peninsula, Bulow Creek and Tomoka State Parks. The roadway view includes vistas of rivers, creeks, marshes, dunes, and beaches.

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FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS TO PRINT

PLACES TO STAY

SECURE YOUR HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS EARLY

ORMOND BEACH IS THE PLACE TO BE!

LOCATIONS & LIBATIONS!

If you have questions please contact: symposium@iseaartexhibit.org

HOPE TO SEE YOU IN ORMAND BEACH FL IN 2025!

September 17 through 20, 2025Ormond Beach Florida