Art Presentations by Wendy Evans

 

 

TALKS GIVEN AT MAJOR INSTITUTIONS

(see BIO for employment history including full semester college classes)

Adult Learning Institute, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI 48334

2013

Saints and Sinners

2012

Picturing America

Magical Multiples - The Art of the Print

2011

Art in the City - Chicago

2010

Century of Change:  Art and Ideas in Eighteenth-Century France

Art in the Third Reich

2009

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing

Art Controversies: Old and New

2008

Diego Rivera and his Murals

Monet to Dali

2007

Painters of Urban Life: The Ashcan School

2006

Triumph and Tragedy: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin

English Accents

2005

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Speakers Forum Lecture

2003

The Magnificent Medici - series of 4 Speakers Forum Lectures

Seeing Red - Speakers Forum Lecture

2002

A Dance around Degas - series of 4 Speakers Forum Lectures

2001

Seeing More in Art - series of 4 Speakers Forum Lectures

2000

Renaissance and Baroque Art - series of 2 Speakers Forum Lectures

Alliance Francaise de Grosse Pointe

2010

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution!

Anhui Sanlian University, Hefei, Anhui Province, China

2012

American Art Tells America's Story

     

 

Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, 1516 South Cranbrook Road, Birmingham, MI 48009

2009

Art in the City - LONDON

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Women in Art

Art Controversies: Old and New

Diego Rivera and his Murals

2008

Monet to Dali

Painters of Urban Life: The Ashcan School

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution!

2007

Happy Birthday Rembrandt!

2006

Magical Multiples - 3 part series of 1 1/2 hour classes

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

2005

Triumph and Tragedy: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin 

Seeing Red: Color in Art

Sensuous Poetry: Art of 16th Century Venice

2004

From the Salon to the Saloon: The Revolution against Tradition - 5 lecture series

Birmingham Community House

2013

Expressionism: The Assertive Art - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

British Accents - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

2012

Devotion, Detail, and Discovery: The Mesmerizing Art of Northern Europe - 3 week

Diego Rivera and his Murals

Picturing America - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

2011

The 3 Ms who Changed French Art: Manet, Monet and Matisse - 3 classes

Post-Impressionism: French Art 1886-1905 - 3 class series

Art in the City - CHICAGO

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing - series of 3 weekly classes

2010

Titans of the Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael - 3 weeks

Magical Multiples  - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Art in the City - LONDON

Art in the City - MADRID

2009

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Women in Art - 3 class series

Charlevoix Public Library, Charlevoix, MI

2007

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution! - first annual Heise Lecture

Clawson Senior Center

2012

Impressionism

Reawaken to the Renaissance

How to Look at Art 

Crooked Tree Art Center, Petosky, MI

2009 

An American Century: Art from the Collection of Jane and Richard Manoogian

2006 

Precedents to Plein Air: Nature Naturally - Coffee at Ten Program 

Detroit Institute of Arts

2013

Rise of a Cultural Treasure: A History of the DIA - lecture for DIA volunteers

2012

Lecture series on Ancient Middle East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

2011

Rise of a Cultural Treasure: A History of the DIA - lecture for DIA IP volunteers

Art in the 3rd Reich - lecture for Information Program Volunteer Associates

2008

European Art of the 18th Century

2007

Lecture series on Ancient Middle East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

European Art of the 18th Century

2006

Lectures on Ancient Middle East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

2003-2006

Instructor for History of Art Course, Paleolithic through 20th Century

2002

Sense and Sensibility:The Enlightenment, Neoclassicism and Romanticism, 1740-1850

2001

Early 20th Century Art

2000-2001

Lectures on Baroque and Rococo Art

1994-2000

Instructor for History of Art Course, Paleolithic through 20th Century

Franklin Hills Country Club (The Cultural Season)

2012

Art in the City:  Chicago

 Fox Run, Novi 

2013

Picturing America  

2012

Diego Rivera's Murals in Mexico, Detroit and New York

2011

Diego Rivera: The "Detroit Industry" Murals 

Life, Art, Passion: Artist Couples - 3 part series

2009

The New Detroit Institute of Arts

2007

Art of the 20th Century - 3 part series of 1 1/2 hour classes

How to Look at Art

Holocaust Memorial Center,  Farmington Hills

2011

The Third Reich and Degenerate Art

Institute for Retired Professionals, Jewish Community Center

2013 

How to look at Art with the Eyes of an Artist

2009 

The Detroit Institute of Arts - Let Yourself Go

2007 

Happy Birthday Rembrandt!

2006

Triumph and Tragedy: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin - Inaugural lecture for Spring Mini Series sponsored by Maida Portnoy

Jewish Community Center

2009

The Nazi Use of Art as Propaganda - Stephen Gottlieb Festival of the Arts lecture presented by the Holocaust Memorial Center

Knollwood Country Club

2012

How to Look at Art

Madonna University Continuing Education

2011

Diego Rivera and his Murals

A Tribute to Georgia O'Keeffe

Triumph and Tragedy:  The Art of Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel

 

 

 

Older Persons Commission, Rochester

2011

Picturing America 

 

 

Optimist Group, Centerpointe

2011

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing 

 

 

Palette and Brush Club

2012

English Accents

2010

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Women in Art

Sanilac County Historical Museum

2005

Visions of Egyptian Art - lecture as museum fundraiser

 

 

SOAR  Society of Active Retirees, Wayne State University, Oakland Campus

2013

Diego Rivera and his Murals 

2012

Art in the City:  (1) London, (2) Madrid, (3) Chicago - 3 week series of 2-hour classes

Life, Art, Passion:  Artist Couples - 3 week series of 2-hour classes

David to Delacroix: Art During the Period of the French Revolution

2011

Stars of the Seventeenth Century: Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Bernini - 3 week series

The 3 Ms who Changed French Painting: Manet, Monet and Matisse - 3  2-hour classes

2010

New No Longer: The Shocking Art of the 20th Century - 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Post Impressionism:  Art in Late 19th-century France- 3 week series

2009

Expressionism: The Assertive Art - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Good, Bad, and Ugly:  Women in Art - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

2008

Titans of the Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael - 3 week series 

Diego Rivera and his Murals

2007

Magical Multiples -series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Opening Doors, Opening Eyes,: American Art 1875-1955 - three 2-hour classes

2006 

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Art of the Renaissance and Baroque - series of 3 weekly 2-hour classes

Sterling Heights Public Library

2009

Picturing America

Temple Beth El Sisterhood

2005

 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Women in Art -tour in Detroit Institute of Arts

Tikva Hadassah

2011

 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Women in Art 

Village Club, Bloomfield Hills

2013

Life, Art, Passion:  Artist Couples - series of 3 weekly 1 1/2-hour classes 

2012

The French Revolution: Art  and Ideas - series of 3 weekly 1 1/2-hour classes

Stars of the Seventeenth Century: Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Bernini - 3 weeks 

2011

Titans of the Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael - 3 week series

Post Impressionism: French Art 1885-1905- 3 weekly 1 1/2-hour classes

2010

Expressionism: The Assertive Art - series of 3 weekly 1 1/2-hour classes

Titans of the Renaissance - Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael - 3 classes

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing - series of 3 weekly classes

2009

Art in the City -  Madrid

The Art of Ancient Greece

Art in the Third Reich

Art in the City -  London

The Sensational Seventeenth Century

How to Look at Art

2008

Monet to Dali

Art of the Renaissance

Opening Doors, Opening Eyes: American Art 1875-1955 - 3 weekly classes

2007

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution!

Century of Change: The Art and Ideas of 18th Century France

2006

Saints and Sinners

Magical Multiples: The Art of the Print

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

The Rivera Murals: Detroit Industry

2005

Triumph and Tragedy: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin 

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

English Accents

2004

From the Salon to the Saloon: The Revolution against Tradition - 4 lecture series

    Waterford Parks and Recreation 50+ Center     

2012

How to Look at Art

Picturing America

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Diego Rivera