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Visit the world of ancient Egypt during a day at the Walters Art Museum with Egyptologist Jacquelyn Williamson. A guided tour explores the museum’s collection of statuary, reliefs, stelae (commemorative stone slabs), funerary objects, jewelry, and objects from daily life that date from prehistoric to Roman Egypt. Williamson even gives a lesson on the basic hieroglyphic offering formula, which appears on memorial statuary and is designed to provide the dead with essential goods in the afterlife. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment frequently makes the lists of greatest novels ever written. A masterful combination of philosophical and psychological inquiry, the novel explores the turmoil of the antihero Raskolnikov as he plots and commits a grotesque crime. Literature professor Joseph Luzzi discusses the storytelling techniques and historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts that inform Dostoevsky’s literary vision.
Learn the techniques needed to create fine mosaic jewelry as you make silver-plate mosaic pendants using mosaic gold, smalti, semiprecious stones, stained glass, millefiori, and more.
This workshop introduces beginners to freestyle hand embroidery, in which stitches are applied freely, disregarding the weave of the ground cloth. Students put their own spin on a provided template through color choice and stitch application.
Bead weaving offers an endless possibility of stitches, designs, and color combinations to explore and create. The class focuses on how to start and finish wearable pieces, create patterns, and choose bead colors and finishes.
Indulge in a colorful midwinter escape as naturalist and botanical horticulturist Keith Tomlinson leads a series of virtual visits that highlight the beauty of notable botanical gardens on the East and West Coasts of the United States, Morocco, and Germany. Vibrant visuals illustrate how each site takes a unique approach to design and interpretation as they all celebrate plant collections, conservation, education, and the distinctive environments and landscapes in which they bloom. This program highlights the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, and the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Gardens.
Before photography was available, botanical illustration was the only way of visually recording the world’s plant life. Through the skill of artists, the beauty of botany was shared with the world. This class walks you through the process of capturing the essence of florals through the wet-in-wet method to create a beautiful painting.
The Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, completed in the 14th century in Florence, is the city’s principal Dominican church. Located next to the main railway station, the church, cloisters, and chapter house contain works by some of Italy’s most notable Gothic and early Renaissance artists, including Brunelleschi, Giotto, and Ghiberti. Italian Renaissance art expert Rocky Ruggiero highlights this lesser-known church and museum and its treasures. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
Oscar-winning composers such as Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, Ennio Morricone and John Williams have engraved iconic scenes into our collective memory with their extraordinary music. Just ahead of this year’s ceremony, concert pianist and film-music fanatic Rachel Franklin leads a journey through 90 years of award-winning movie scores, accompanied by her grand piano and a wide collection of fascinating film clips.
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 Antonio Martorell’s La Playa Negra I (Tar Beach I).