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NATCHEZ – Area high school students will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study portrait painting in oils during an upcoming free workshop with a master artist visiting from Madrid, Spain.

Master artist Pablo Santibanez Servat is coming to Natchez via the Arts Danu teaching artist residency program. Servat, a classically trained painter, is making his first visit to the United States and will be here for two weeks in November.

During that time, Conde Contemporary will host:

An exhibition, open from 6 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 8.
An artist talk, from noon to 2 p.m. on Nov. 9.
A portrait painting in oil workshop for high school students, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 11, 12 and 13. All materials are provided and only three spaces.

All programming is free and open to the public.

RSVP’s are not required but encouraged. Space is limited for the portrait painting workshop, only three spaces remain. If you have interest in registering your student or reserving a spot an event, contact Stacy Conde at stacy@allumernatchez.com .

Servat, who has a degree in fine art from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, has participated in multiple group exhibitions internationally as well as five solo exhibitions at the Treccanni Museum (Milan, Italy), the Diego Rivera Museum (Guanajuato, Mexico), Plus One Gallery (London, England), the Drexel Gallery in (Monterrey, Mexico), and at Benjamin Eck Gallery (Munich, Germany).

His work has been successfully auctioned in New York in at least eight Latin American Art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. He was awarded the prize at the Palais De Glace during the Biennial of Sacred Art (Buenos Aires, Argentina), and made it to the final selection, three times, of the MEAM contest of the Museum of Figurative Arts in Barcelona, Spain, where his work is on permanent exhibition.

He received the Fondart Award from the Government of Chile and earned a postgraduate scholarship at the Arauco Academy taking classes with the Chilean master Guillermo Muñoz-Vera and later became part of the academic teaching staff of that art school. Servat also received a scholarship from the Complutense University of Madrid as a student of Antonio López , “Painting and Drawing Lessons” (El Escorial-Madrid).

This programming is made possible, in part, by a grant from Mississippi Arts Commission.