Calendar

Santa Rosa Art Association Calendar

August 23, 2025

Mona: Paper Quilling

Bill: Still Life with color pencils.

***September 20, 2025, Note: Date change to the 3rd Saturday

Brenda Wood - a gourd artist

October 25, 2025

Kristen Carter: hands on fused glass. Participants will be able to create a small square dish and Kristen will fire at her home and return the projects the following meeting

November 22, 2025

A. G. Tapscott - Charcoal Portraiture with demonstration.

New Address Meeting will be at the Chamber of Commerce 4315 Avalon Blvd. Milton, FL Meeting and Guest Artist time will be 9am to 1pm.

December 5, 2025

Christmas Dinner and homemade gift exchange at the Chamber of Commerce on Avalon. It will be a catered dinner.

January 24, 2026 Canceled

Lynn Zehr - a needle felting artist: this is a participation workshop supplies will be provided

February 28, 2026

Fuller Brown

March 28, 2026

Steve Ford - Laser cut wood: Demonstration with participation

SRAA Members and Guests, it is time to really have some fun and explore the many creative talents that we see from each of you during our SRAA meetings. With Mothers' Day, anniversaries, birthdays, and Christmas gifts to be created, many of you are ready to explore multi-media gifts. Have you seen the latest items on the Internet using every craft material imaginable to make jewelry? Our March SRAA meeting will be a multi-media jamboree with everyone bringing their own ideas and crafting materials or paints to decorate wood-base earrings (that could also be turned into necklaces.) To have enough room and tables for creating, we will be meeting at Magnolia Hall, 5256 Alabama Street, Milton, FL 32570. We will have a short business meeting at 9:00 and hope to start the creative session at 10:00 after Show and Share Time.

For our meeting on March 28, 2026, Steve will present a video and power point presentation to show how the laser engraving process works. So that he will not have to charge the SRAA anything for supplies, Steve has agreed to bring individual kits for you to purchase to use as a jewelry base to decorate. There are a variety of choice designs. We hope you will have fun creating your most imaginative art-inspired works this year and bring them to the SRAA April meeting for Show and Share Time. Each kit will contain two matching earring wooden bases along with the rings and earring hooks for pierced ears. Remember to bring a table covering and your creative paints, brushes, glues, jewelry decorations, etc.

For the last couple of years, Steve Ford has been sharing his amazing laser-engraved creations with the SRAA during Show and Share Time. Steve's work ethics and perfectionism began with his Eagle Scout training, his engineering work using his drafting skills with Gulf Power Company for 16 years, and then in creating his wood crafts. Always interested in photography, in 1980, Steve attended classes and opened his own professional photographic studio. Within 3 years, his wedding albums scored top places in state competition. In those 21 years, Steve earned many state and national degrees and awards. For six years, Steve served on the Florida Professional Photographers' Board of Directors, serving in 1988 as the FPP Board President. Steve became a Certified Professional Photographer with a Q-Rating in General Commercial Photography and earned his Craftsman's Degree, two of the higher acclaims in photography. In 2004 when a tornado from Hurricane Ivan destroyed the studio, darkroom, 21 years of negatives, and their home, Steve used his many skills to rebuild the family's home while working at Radio Shack and teaching Dale Carnegie Classes. Since then, he has stayed busy doing video depositions. In 2021 Covid stopped many in-person depositions so Steve finally had time for a hobby.

For our meeting on March 28, 2026, Steve will present a video and power point presentation to show how the laser engraving process works. So that he will not have to charge the SRAA anything for supplies, Steve has agreed to bring individual kits for you to purchase to use as a jewelry base to decorate. There are a variety of choice designs. There was a donation to cover all expenses for the workshop! We hope you will have fun creating your most imaginative art-inspired works this year and bring them to the SRAA April meeting for Show and Share Time. Each kit will contain two matching earring wooden bases along with the rings and earring hooks for pierced ears.

April 25, 2026:

Barbara Allen - acrylic pour artist- and Teacher Grant Recipients

May 5, 2026:

Thursday 4pm set up 5pm-Installation Dinner

BASIC meeting times & basic agendas:
8:15 a.m. set up the room; display art, take care of dues, 50-50 tickets, socializing, etc.
9:00 a.m. SHARP! Begin official meetings with pledge, etc., Business agendas & news
About 9:45a.m. – End business meeting; snacks & fellowship

All gather for SHOW & SHARE TIME (All attendees & guests may share
their art endeavors. Please limit your sharing to no more than 2 minutes each.)
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Art Presentation, Demo or Workshop by Guest Artist
12 noon Clean up; EVERYONE helps until all is done!

"These artists may change due to unforeseen circumstances."

The Santa Rosa Art Association meets the Fourth Saturday of the Month at the Chamber of Commerce on Avalon Blvd. Milton FL at 9 am from August through April except for November it's the 3rd Saturday. Dues for the year from August to May are $30.00 a person, students $10.00 a year. If a person is not a member of SRAA then each guest learning session is $10.00. Payments can be made at the meetings to the Treasurer.

Workshop participation is from 10 am to Noon