Classes

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Go Green: Recycle-Create-Give
Sunday, May 6, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
$50 General; $40 Members
Explore how to create homemade and meaningful gifts from recycled and repurposed items.
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Jewelry Making
Sunday, June 3, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
$50 General; $40 Members
Try your hand at wire wrapping jewelry! Receive an overview on jewelry wire plus the tools and basic techniques to get started creating your first wire-wrapped piece. Beginners welcome!
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Drawing and Composition
Tuesdays, June 5–August 7, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
$455 Noncredit; $495 Certificate Credit; $1,415 College Credit
This beginning course, offered in partnership with Otis College Extension, develops skills in the elements of drawing and composition. Through demonstration, class exercises, and critiques, students explore concepts including contour line, cross contour, modeling, uses of marks to show form and space, perspective, scale and measurement, and positive/negative space.
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Forays into Fiction
Wednesdays, June 6–July 18, 7:00–10:00 p.m. (No class July 4)
$275 Noncredit
Make forays into the world of fiction and create compelling stories. Examining the elements of micro fiction, the short story, novella, and novel, acquire skills to establish point of view, render complex characters, envision setting, write believable dialogue, and weave a plot that urges the reader to turn the page. This dynamic class focuses on finding your voice, stoking your imagination, and developing underlying themes.
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Screen Print Workshop
Saturdays, June 9 and 16, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
$185 Noncredit
In partnership with Otis College Extension, this two-day workshop offers a quick method of printmaking. Using bold colors and stencil shapes, create screen-printed art using images from popular culture and methods of stylistic pattern making. Materials are supplied to create prints, tees, or tote bags.
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Drawing and Meditative Mindfulness
Wednesdays, June 13–July 25, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. (No class July 4)
$375 Noncredit
In this class, offered in partnership with Otis College of Art and Design, cultivate a meditative state of mind while developing the formal techniques of drawing. Current research in neuroscience has demonstrated that the practice of meditative mindfulness can sharpen perception, creativity, and intuition and increase attention and nonjudgmental awareness—all skills also honed through drawing.
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Illustrating Children’s Books
Mondays, February 5–April 23, 7:00–10:00 p.m. (No classes February 19 and March 19)

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Explore the steps involved in illustrating a children’s book in this class offered in partnership with Otis College Extension.
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Bernstein at the Skirball
Sold out! Tuesdays, April 10–24, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Sold out! Tuesdays, June 5–19, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
$75 General; $60 Members
Affectionately called “Lenny” by millions of admirers throughout the world, Leonard Bernstein was truly a “Renaissance Man,” excelling not only as a conductor, educator, and prolific composer of Broadway shows, opera, ballet, and symphonic and choral music, but also as a TV personality and jet-setter. He attracted crowds wherever he went.
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Art: The Majestic Landscape
Wednesdays, April 18 and 25 and May 2, 16, and 30, 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
This class is now full.
The “landscape” in visual art has always symbolized emotional, ideological, and spiritual yearnings. From Chinese brush painting to the Italian Renaissance, depictions of mountains, water, and trees convey a desire for order and peace in a turbulent world. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, landscapes became a vehicle for heart-pounding romanticism, shimmering impressionism, and individual voice.
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Great Decisions: A Current Events Discussion Group
Thursdays, January 18, February 8 and 22, March 8, April 5, 19, and 26, May 3, 1:30–3:00 p.m.
Please note the session formerly planned to be held on March 22 has been rescheduled for April 26.

This class is now full.

Become an informed citizen! In this stimulating discussion group, discuss and debate important international current events with the guidance of an experienced moderator and guest lecturers from area universities and think tanks.
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Drawing and Composition
Thursdays, February 8–May 3, 7:00–10:00 p.m. (No class March 22)

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This beginning course, offered in partnership with Otis College Extension, develops skills in the elements of drawing and composition. Through demonstration, class exercises, and critiques, students explore concepts including contour line, cross contour, modeling, uses of marks to show form and space, perspective, scale and measurement, and positive/negative space.
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Skirball Book Groups: Changing Views of the American Experience
Winter–Spring 2018

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Under the direction of a professional book group facilitator, participants examine the book together, analyzing characters, themes, and motifs and learning about the author’s background. Expect lively, interactive classes. Discussion questions are distributed in advance of each class session. Participants must read the book prior to each session.
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