August Women In Architecture Lecture Series

All welcome!

RSVP by August 4th

Join us for a watercolor class at the Sunken Gardens at the Santa Barbara Courthouse for our August WIA gathering with Alexis Stypa, architectural designer at Harrison Design and founder of Stypa Studio. Alexis is experienced in architectural and landscape watercolors and has led workshops across the world. We will meet at the Sunken Gardens at 5:30pm. We will have extra blankets and supplies but encourage you to bring any personal painting supplies and folding chair to be comfortable. In case of inclement weather, we will email the registrants with an alternate interior location.

Recommended supplies (extra supplies will be provided as needed):

• Watercolor paper / pad (140# paper preferred)
• Transparent watercolor paints in pans, cakes, or tubes
• Paint palette
• Watercolor brushes (#10 or #12 round & #4 or #5 round)
• Folding chair or blanket

Alexis Stypa is an architectural designer at Harrison Design and founder of Stypa Studio in Santa Barbara, CA. She received her masters from the Notre Dame School of Architecture, and before that studied humanities and mathematics at Ave Maria University. During a summer internship, she became interested in how beauty in both the natural and built environment affects the whole person. This interest led her to study architecture with a particular passion for sacred architecture and renewal in church design. Alexis is an avid free diver and aspiring naturalist. She grew up bringing her sketchbook along family adventures, and has since enjoyed being in a profession which her sketchbook is still very useful.

To learn more about Alexis, visit