Artisan Workshop Travel and Artisan Vacations

artbreak™ is an active learning vacation to renew your mind, heart, and spirit midst the most beautiful city in Europe.

artbreak™ is a meticulously crafted vacation for adventurous individuals who love the creative arts, and who enjoy expanding their personal creative and cultural horizons through travel.

Whether you’ve always wanted to try your hand at sculpting or painting, share time with artists who care deeply about creative expression, or simply see night after night of breathtaking performances, artbreak™ is meant for you.
artbreak™ gives our clients intimate access to Prague’s artistic world via a varied sequence of morning workshops with local artists in which you can explore a number of media including drawing, painting, sculpture and film animation. Several afternoons we'll be keeping you inspired, too: you can count on an awe-inspiring city walking tour with a licensed architectural guide, afternoon gallery visits, and wine tasting. And what further distinguishes artbreak™ from all other vacation offerings in Prague is our evening events: you will see the best of what is available, in great seats, at the opera, the symphony, renowned jazz clubs, and wonderful avant garde performances that tourists never find on their own. There is also ample free time during your afternoons to wander Prague’s medieval streets, write in your personal journal – or just relax.

Art classes, fiber art, quiltmaking, textile quilt art, felt art and dying wool, mixed media art

The Studio Gallery has been in operation for 20 years. The focal point of your visit will be to see how an etching is made. Etcher Doreen Foster's studio is on view in the gallery and you can talk to her about the art of etching and aquatint.

First we'll show you around and explain how a production pottery studio works. You'll probably some of our potters either throwing or hand building functional work. Then we'll show you some examples you can try yourself before we turn you loose in the Class Space to create your own Island Memory

Hands-On Art making

You will not only have the chance to do your own sketching and photography, but are invited to study for up to four hours each day in batik, mask carving, offering making or watercolor with native Balinese working artists. While you are not required to participate in these classes, we at ARTIS feel they are the highlight of the trip. The Balinese instructors are warm and enthusiastic, speak English and work with students at all levels of proficiency.

This tour is a special opportunity for an insider�s view into this fascinating and complex culture. The area we stay in, known as the Cultural Center, is home to many of Bali's most famous artists, carvers, dancers and musicians. Our activities are designed to give you the best possible access to a culture that is experiencing an artistic Golden Age.
The program includes:
The program will have a flexible schedule to host 14 days and three week classes in batik, watercolor and wood or mask carving. There will be several orientation and language sessions. Participants may switch classes the second week.
- Work with Balinese artists in the renowned art villages of Ubud and Mas.
- Four performances of traditional dance.
- Extensive touring of east and south Bali, visit puppet makers.
- Visit to Jimbaran Beach where we will spend the night.

You�ll enjoy this trip most if you�re flexible and open to new experiences, if you have a good sense of humor, and if you can accept delays and last-minute changes with equanimity. If you require complete comfort and a firm itinerary at all times, this trip is not for you. The Balinese do not always run by the clock. Schedules sometimes have a way of shifting and provide an opportunity to do something special we had not planned, such as attend a temple festival or rite of passage ceremony. There is a very slight possibility that flight schedules might change. You may attend whichever tour activities you wish, however, there will be no refunds for missed tour activities. Anyone who leaves the tour for any reason is on their own. Visits to the studios and homes of artists and crafts people enable participants to observe and photograph the creative process, as well as purchasing art directly from the creator, usually at considerable savings.

Continental Breakfast at your hotel, you will picked up by tour bus and taken to our outdoor painting locations such as Magen's Bay, voted one of the most beautiful beaches in the world; and Private botanical gardens at a historic sugar mill. You will see a painting demonstration by our professional painting instructor. Then you will paint until midday. A gourmet lunch is served where you are painting. In the afternoon, you are free to swim at the beach, enjoy a tropical drink, or return to the hotel. In the evening you are free to shop, explore and dine on your own.

Our tour in Medieval Spain is similar. You will paint in the midst of a medieval village. Day excursions are provided, one of which is a day trip to the Caves of Altamira, the site of pre-historic art dating to 14,000 years ago.