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Great shoots start with great locations—and Washington, D.C., offers plenty of unbeatable visual inspiration. Learn to capture this vibrant city and sharpen your way of thinking about shooting outdoors as you deploy a minimal amount of equipment and a lot of fresh perspective.
Drop the burden of a finished product and focus on developing your ideas. Begin to deal with procrastination, creative blocks, flow, problem solving, and finishing within the support of a stress-free environment and build confidence alongside other creatives on the same journey.
Your family is unique in all the world, but how do you best tell its story? Whether you’re starting with boxes (or digital folders) of photos, diaries, news clippings, recipes, and other mementos, or whether memories are your main material, documenting a family history can be daunting. Writer Mathina Calliope offers the tools and guidance you need to confidently create the most meaningful story to share with the people you love.
With the discovery of prehistoric fossils, nineteenth-century Americans were astonished to learn that the New World was far older than previously thought—providing evidence of what is now known as “deep time,” the concept that Earth is billions of years old. Historian Caroline Winterer traces the rise of this transformative idea, examining how naturalists, explorers, engineers, and ordinary Americans unearthed a history more ancient than anyone could have imagined.
Urban renewal efforts in the mid-20th century ushered in a Brutalist phenomenon that reshaped Washington, D.C. But many of the high-profile public buildings designed in the rough, minimalist style haven’t aged well and their architectural significance is still debated. Angela Person and Ty Cole, curators of “Capital Brutalism,” at the National Building Museum, provide an overview of the exhibition, which explores the history, current state, and future of seven polarizing Brutalist buildings in the capital. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
Discover how visual art can inspire creative writing and how writing can offer a powerful way to experience art. Join Mary Hall Surface, the founding instructor of the National Gallery of Art’s popular Writing Salon, for five online workshops that explore essential elements of writing and styles through close looking, word-sketching, and imaginative response to prompts. This writing session is inspired by 20th-century artist Edward Hopper’s People in the Sun.
Ages 7-11. This spirit-rousing musical play chronicles the struggles and triumphs of pioneering African American baseball players.
As T.S. Eliot said, “genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” Transform words into a visual illustration combining imagery, color, and mark making as you manipulate the materials to draw out the emotion you feel.
Learn the fundamentals of knitting, including casting on, basic knit and purl stitches, increasing, decreasing, and binding off. Students learn by practice, and may start a knitting project during class.