Next Level Workshop | Exercising Symmetry | with Jose Bedia

Ages 15+ | Beginner-Intermediate Level

Saturday 1:00-3:30 pm

In this workshop Jose Bedia will guide students in understanding the power of symmetry, as informed by many traditional and ethnographic cultures throughout the world, who incorporate symmetrical designs into their artistic creations. Using a direct hands-on approach, students will depart from the traditional paradigm of working solely with their dominant hand, and instead explore using both hands simultaneously to create unique visions. Works on paper using acrylic paint will be worked on to shift the traditional understanding of perspective in art, and get a closer understanding of non-Western motifs and symbolisms.

All supplies included.

Jose Bedia is a featured artist in the Tampa Museum of Art's exhibition of Under the Spell of the Palm Tree: The Rice Collection of Cuban Art.

Jose Bedia is a Cuban artist, born in 1959, his career has not only spanned over 3 decades but he was also a pioneer of the radical transformation of Cuban Art that inaugurated the Exhibition Volumen 1, which he was integral part of. Spanning from his participation in the monumental exhibit Magiciens de la Terre in 1989 to winning First Prize at the Beijing Biennale in 2010, Bedia’s career and work have had an international outreach. Bedia’s works are in many important private collections, as well as the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the PAMM, and he had a 30 year retrospective at the Fowler Museum in LA. His work merges his tribal and ethnographic interests, using a field work approach and adding layered social and historical elements of many world traditions.

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Cancellation Policy 

All of TMA's studio courses require a minimum enrollment to run. If a class does not meet a minimum enrolment 3 days before the first day of class it will be canceled and a full refund issued to any enrolled students.

For students that need to cancel their enrollment:

14 days + before the first day of your class—100% refund 

8–13 days before the first day of your class—50% refund 

7 days or less—no refund 

All refunds will be charged a $15 administrative fee. 

This workshop series takes place at the Tampa Museum of Art's Vinik Family Education Center,  120 W. Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL 33602.