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This class is for those who feel utterly untalented at sewing yet want to make a quilt. Journey from not knowing to bold experiments, finding your sense of quiltmaking confidence as you learn strategies for piecing, appliqué, quilting, and finishing.
From World War II through the Cold War, Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower maintained a friendship unlike any other in history, an alliance and camaraderie that defeated Nazism and kept communism at bay. Although occasionally testy, their connection remained close until Churchill’s death. Historian Mitchell Yockelson discusses the personal story of these heads of state and their lasting influence on the world.
Chamber music, perhaps the most subtle and intimate form of musical expression, has inspired many great composers to create some of their most sublime compositions. In a five-session series, classical music expert Saul Lilienstein explores and analyzes some of the chamber repertoire’s masterworks by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Shostakovich, and others.
This introductory course teaches the basic skills needed for drawing. Working with a variety of materials and techniques, including charcoal and pencils, students explore the rendering of geometric forms, volume, and perspective, with an emphasis on personal gesture marks.
Whether you want to work in digital or film, this course offers a solid foundation for new photographers ready to learn the basics. Topics include camera functions, exposure, metering, working with natural and artificial light, and composition.
Learn to capture the depth of field, motion effects, and exposure you want by quickly making camera adjustments in the field. Topics covered include ISO, apertures, shutter speeds, exposure modes, metering modes, exposure compensation, and histograms.
This class guides you through the process of creating a jeweled glass-and-bead mosaic mirror. Lectures cover historical perspectives, material review, and snapshots of contemporary decorative mosaic art.
For 46 years, director John Huston masterfully navigated the Hollywood system, offsetting conventional commercial assignments with deeply uncompromising personal projects. His films are stories of triumph and suffering, of anti-heroes and sociopaths, alcoholics, adventurers, and lusty rebels. Film historian Max Alvarez celebrates these achievements in a tribute filled with film selections and archival images drawn from the works of one of cinema’s greatest directing artisans.
As he confronted the most violent and challenging war ever waged on American soil, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation freeing the 3.5 million enslaved Americans without whom the South could neither feed nor fund their armed insurrection—ultimately dooming the rebellion led by Jefferson Davis. Historian and author Nigel Hamilton discusses how two Americans faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance and how Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last best chance to save the Union.
Horses altered the course of human history, says archaeologist William T. Taylor. He traces their origins and spread from the western Eurasian steppes and discusses their domestication, the invention of horse-drawn transportation, and the significant shift to mounted riding. Drawing on archaeozoology, Indigenous perspectives, ancient DNA, and other new research, Taylor highlights the discoveries that have placed the horse at the inception of globalization, trade, biological exchange, and social inequality.
