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To receive regular e-mail updates listing currently-scheduled lectures, tours,
and other
offerings contact wendyevans@art-talks.org
Talks scheduled
in public venues through December 2017:
Quilts,
samplers, embroidery, and applique have been used to tell
meaningful stories, sometimes historical, sometimes religious,
and often, as in the Fabric of Survival: The Art of Esther
Nisenthal Krinitz, deeply moving. We'll explore the
beautiful art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitiz (on display in the
Janice Charach Gallery July 16-Spetember 19, 2017) as well as a
range of other stitched examples from the Bayeux Tapestry and
Torah Ark curtains to 20th century quilts and samplers.
Information
at http://www.jccdet.org/adults/active-life/
or contact Rosa Chessler at 248 432-5467 or rchessler@jccdet.org
Tuesday
September 26 Detroit Architecture
Detroit is growing again. We'll look at some of the plans for new buildings and renovations of old ones after exploring a mix of buildings from the late 19th century on. One focus will be on buildings by architect Louis Kamper, another on the engineering and architectural innovations of Albert Kahn, and a third on the design principles of Wirt Rowland.
Wednesday December 13 Chicago Architecture
Chicago is noted for its cutting edge architecture. The Great Chicago Fire in 1871 gave the city the chance to rebuild when steel could be made cheaply enough to be used for construction. From then on Chicago has been a place for great architects and architectural innovation. We'll look at a wide range of buildings – skyscrapers, homes, apartments, museums by top architects like Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Jeanne Gang.
Information
and registration for any or all classes at 248 644-5832 or on
line
(Fee helps support the educational mission of the Community
House)
Explore the art,
lore and landscape from Highclere Castle, the location
and inspiration for the Downton Abbey TV series plus more stories, art
and landscaping from other stately homes. You'll find truth
stranger and every bit as salacious and exciting as the fiction.
Dine
and Discover Program
Open
to adults
50 and better
Non-residents welcome for same $8 lunch fee if they pay annual
fee $20
Information call 248 473-1830
Registration required
The Impressionist paintings so loved today began in the
rebellion of Claude Monet and a few of his fellow art students against the formalism and sentimentality that
characterized French academic art in the late 19th-century.
This presentation explores how and why they transformed
art. It is geared to the exhibition Monet: Framing Life at
the DIA from October 22, 2017 to March 4, 2018.
Non-members
are welcome. Fee $20 member, $30 non member
Information
and registration for classes at 248 644-3450 or at www.thevillageclub.org
Saarinen
House at Cranbrook exemplifies Eliel Saarinen's belief that an
architect's mission is total design from the building and its
setting to the spoon on the table inside. He believed in
including his talenteed family in design as well.
This class will focus on Eliel Saarinen's buildings at
Cranbrook, but will begin with his work in his native Finland
and branch out to include designs by Lola, Pipa, and Eero
Saarinen.
Non-members
are welcome. Fee $20 member, $30 non member
Information
and registration for classes at 248 644-3450 or at www.thevillageclub.org
Located in an old railway station, this museum is a tourist
favorite with its large collection of Impressionist and
Post-Impressionist masterpieces, plus other works from the mid 19th
century through the early 20th. Hopefully the images presented will bring back fond
memories of artworks familiar to you and give ideas of what to
look for in future visits to this great museum.
Information
at http://www.jccdet.org/adults/active-life/
or contact Rosa Chessler at 248 432-5467 or rchessler@jccdet.org
Look at some of
the more than 400 structures Albert Kahn built in the Detroit area
from his own residence to the largest marble-clad building in the
world, the Fisher Building. Discover how
this modest immigrant with only an elementary school education
went from obscurity to world renown. His innovations
changed how factories were built, were crucial for the rise of
the auto industry, and enabled the US to become the Arsenal of
Democracy.
Dine
and Discover Program
Open
to adults
50 and better
Non-residents welcome for same $8 lunch fee if they pay annual
fee $20
Information call 248 473-1830
Registration required
No artist has captured American life
more vividly than Norman Rockwell. We'll explore some of his
best-loved covers for the Saturday Evening Post as well as a
selection of other works from his long and productive career.
Non-members
are welcome. Fee $20 member, $30 non member
Information
and registration for classes at 248 644-3450 or at www.thevillageclub.org
Chicago is noted for its cutting edge architecture. The Great Chicago Fire in 1871 gave the city the chance to rebuild when steel could be made cheaply enough to be used for construction. From then on Chicago has been a place for great architects and architectural innovation. We'll look at a wide range of buildings – skyscrapers, homes, apartments, museums by top architects like Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, and Jeanne Gang.
Information
and registration at 248 644-5832 or on
line
(Fee helps support the educational mission of the Community
House)
Books
for children have some of the best illustrations. We'll look at
examples spanning from late 19th and early 20th century artists like
Randolph Caldecott, E. H. Sheperd, and Beatrix Potter to contemporary award winners
like Angela Barrett, Jerry Pinkney, Maurice Sendak, and Mo Willems.
Information
at http://www.jccdet.org/adults/active-life/
or contact Rosa Chessler at 248 432-5467 or rchessler@jccdet.org
I
am scheduled to talk also to the following private groups over
this period:- ALI, All Seasons of
Birmingham, and West Bloomfield; Cedarbrook; Country Club of
Detroit; Farmington Hills 50
and Better Dine and Discover, Fox Run, PEO Birmingham
Branch; Samaritas; SOAR and
SOAR Macomb.
I give talks in private homes. If you
are interested in a talk for a private or public group contact me.
To receive regular e-mail updates listing currently-scheduled lectures, tours,
and other
offerings contact wendyevans@art-talks.org
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