Mark Kistler's Imagination Station
“"Do you like to draw?"”
Mark Kistler's Imagination Station is a public television series where Mark Kistler taught children – and adults – to draw using techniques such as perspective and shading. The PBS version of the program was originally presented by TV station KIXE in the Redding and Chico areas of the U.S. state of California. Mark Kistler additionally released some publications teaching techniques used in the show. It had a short reprise later in the 1990s but did not continue to run past a few episodes. The show released 131 episodes, from 1993 to 2009. In the summer of 2009 he filmed additional shows that began airing on PBS in the fall of 2009. https://kids.kiddle.co/Mark_Kistler%27s_Imagination_Station
Details
First Aired: 10/14/1991
Languages: English
Created by: Mark Kistler
Type: Scripted
Production
Companies: KIXE, PBS
Countries: United States of America
Seasons
S01: Imagination Station - Part 1
The original first season of Mark Kistler's Imagination Station was created at Daniels Cablevision in Carlsbad, CA and debuted in 1993. The Lessons in Season 1 correspond to the first group of lessons in the book of the same name released the following year in 1994.
S02: Imagination Station - Part 2
Season 2 was filmed at Daniels Cablevision in Carlsbad, CA and debuted in 1994. The lessons in Season 2 correspond to the later lessons in the book of the same name. Altogether there were 36 episodes filmed at Daniels Cablevision that correspond to the 36 lessons in the companion book. Later Seasons 1 & 2 were repackaged and rebranded for direct sale as a classroom video series and retroactively 'de-canonized' from the Imagination Station broadcast library.
S03: Drawing in 3-D - Part 1
1996; Season 3 of Imagination Station was the first and only season produced at KIXE Public TV in Redding, California. The lessons in Season 3 correspond to lessons A-F in Mark Kistler's book of the same name released 2 years later in 1998.
