John Jacopelle, Closeted, Painting, 2018

Free for Members, $5 per Non-Member

Pre-registration is required. Space is limited to 20 participants.

Each month (September to May), participants will be introduced to one of the Museum’s exhibitions in a fun and accessible, hands-on learning experience for all ages. Labs are led by professional artists or art educators who guide participants in creating their own artwork. Using a array of mediums and techniques, the project will relate to an exhibition on display in the Museum.

This month's Art Lab will compliment the current exhibition Conversing with Reality, led by the artist himself, John Jacopelle.

INSTRUCTOR: John Jacopelle

John Jacopelle, a distinguished and modernistic artist, who has defined his many works as an analytical analysis, where one would have to account for the process and inspiration.

He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Art and Design at Purchase College, State University of New York in Westchester County. His graduate classes were taken at Albany University. He is a retired Professor and Gallery Director from Pratt University at Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, New York. He is a featured artist in the UK publication of Jackie Newell and Dee Whittington’s Printmaking Handbook, Monoprinting. John’s concentration is in painting with a minor in printmaking.

John is the author of numerous and one of a kind artist art books; Poems, The Planet Earth, Phoebe and the Hairy House, Questions to the Tree House, Frog and the Princess, and The Will, just to name a few.

His work has been shown in solo gallery exhibitions up and down the East Coast and he has participated in several juried and group shows. His award-winning works are in corporate and private collections throughout the United States and Europe.

John has curated over seventy-five exhibitions and has organized lectures, demonstrations and receptions at the School of Art Gallery located in Pratt University upstate campus.  

John was born in upstate New York, is married and currently resides in and has one of his studios in sunny Lake Wales, Florida.