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

2021

The Passionate Art of Vincent van Gogh

2020

Tricks and Treats in Art

Detroit Institute of Arts: Asian Collection

2019

How to see with the Eyes of an Artist 

Golden Age of Dutch Art

2018

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

2017

Detroit Architecture: Old and New

Art Controversies: Old and New

2016

The Art of Flowers

British Accents

2015

The Three Ms who Changed French Art: Manet, Monet and Matisse

Picturing America

2014

Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain

Art in the City - Madrid

Art in the City - London

2013

Expressionism:  The Assertive Art - 3 part series

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

All Seasons, Birmingham

2021

Art Controversies, Old and New

Art, Life, Passion: Georgia O'Keeffe and Arthur Stieglitz

2020

The Passionate Art of Vincent van Gogh

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

Picturing America

Art for Today: PowerPoint 3 

Art for Today: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

 Art for Today PowerPoint 2

 Art for Today PowerPoint

 Britsh Accents 

The Detroit Institute of Arts: Asian Collection

2019

From Mud to Magic: Ceramics through the Ages 

Ben Shahn: Art of Protest 

The British Royals

Amalfi Coast of Italy for Art Lovers

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Revisiting Rembrandt 

Henri Matisse: The Art of Harmony

The Mesmerizing Art of Northern Europe

Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz 

2018

Saints and Sinners

The Saarinens: A Designing Family 

Tricks and Treats in Art 

The Sensational 17th Century

The DIA: American Collection 

The Art of Garden Design

Experiencing the Spiritual through Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Mesopotamia - Cradle of Civilization

2017

Claude Monet and Frederic Edwin Church

Skins, Skeins, and Stitches: Fabric Art through the Ages 

American Impressionism 

The DIA: Modern and Contemporary Collection

Detroit Architecture: Sacred Spaces

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller

Art Controversies: Old and New

The Detroit Institute of Arts: The European Collection

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: A Passionate Couple

Washington DC: City for  Art Lovers

2016

The Art of Flowers

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

New No Longer: The Shocking Art of the 20th Century

Detroit Architecture: Old and New 

Picturing America

Looking at Art with the Eyes of an Artist

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

The Real Downton Abbey and Other Treasure Houses of Britain

Chicago: City for Art Lovers

2015

London: City for Art Lovers

The DIA: Rise of a Cultural Treasure

All Seasons, Rochester

2021

The Saarinens: A Designing Family

2020

Feasting on Art

Tricks and Treats in Art

The Passionate Art of Vincent van Gogh

German Art in the 1500s

Art for Today: PowerPoint 3 

Art for Today: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

 Art for Today PowerPoint 2

 Art for Today PowerPoint

2018

Marc Chagall: Fairy Tales, Passion, and Wonder

2015

London: City for Art Lovers

All Seasons, West Bloomfield

2024

Tricks and Treats in Art

Frida Kahlo: A Life of Pain, Passion, and Art

State Hermitage Museum: Saint Petersburg

Art Institute of Chicago

2023

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

New York for Art Lovers 2 (MoMA, Neue Galerie, Solomon S Guggenheim, and Whitney Museum of American Art )

New York: City for Art Lovers (Met and Frick Museums)

Michelangelo:Genius at Work

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller

2022

Downton Abbey and Other Stately Homes of Britain

The British Royals

2021

Art of Flowers

Art Controversies: Old and New

Skins, Skeins, and Stitches: Fabric Art through the Ages

Feasting on Art 

2020

The Passionate Art of Vincent van Gogh

Art for Today: PowerPoint 3 

Art for Today: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

Art for Today PowerPoints  (during Covid)

British Accents

The Detroit Institute of Arts: Asian Collection

2019

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution! 

The Amalfi Coast of Italy for Art Lovers

Art of Ancient Greece 

2018

Illustrations in Books for Children

Tricks and Treats in Art 

Marc Chagall: Fairy Tales, Passion, and Wonder

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

2017

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller

Experiencing the Spiritual through Art

American Impressionism

Looking at Art with the Eyes of an Artist

2016

Picturing America

The Art of Flowers

Art in the Third Reich

Detroit Architecture: Old and New

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

2015

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing - 3 sessions  

2013

Treasure Houses of England  

Alliance Francaise de Grosse Pointe

2024

Artist Selfies: Portraits from Paris

2020

Art Controversies: Old and New

2014

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

2010

Vive la France! Vive la Revolution!

American Association of University Women: Birmingham Branch

2016

The Real Downton Abbey and Other Treasure Houses of Britain

2013

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

2012

American Impressionists

2010

Artists of the 1950s: Abstract Expressionists

Ashcan Artists

American Association of University Women: Northville

2016

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

American Association of University Women: Rochester

2017

The Real Downton Abbey and Other Treasure Houses of Britain

Anhui Sanlian University, Hefei, Anhui Province, China

2012

American Art Tells America's Story

     

 

Ann Arbor Fiber Arts Guild

2018

Skins, Skeins, and Stitches: Fabric Art through the Ages

Anthology of Novi

2022

The British Royals

Art History Zoom Series

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2025

00-Introduction

01 Art Before History

02 Ancient Middle East

03 Ancient Middle East part 2

04 From Mud to Magic: A Potted History of Ceramics

05, 06 Egypt:Art for Life and Death

07 Aegaean Art: Form and Figure

08 Ancient Greece: Competition and Change

09 Ancient Greece (part 2)

10 Greece (part 3); Etruscans (part 1)

11 Etruscans (part 2); Rome (part 1): Pompeii

12 Rome (part2): Engineering an Empire

13 History of Glass

14 Rome (part 3): From Perceptual to Conceptual

15 Christian Art in the Roman Empire

16 Art in Constantinople and Ravenna

17 Tricks and Treats in Art

18 Art in the Islamic World part 1

 

Baldwin Public Library, Birmingham

2019

Art of the Italian Renaissance 

Looking at Art: How to See with the Eyes of an Artist

2016

Capturing Celebrity: Annie Leibovitz

Birmingham Area Panhellenic Alumnae Association

2014

Picturing America

2013

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

Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center

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

2022

Women Artist Series: Artemisia Gentileschi and other Italian women of her time; Bertha Morisot and other artists painting in France in the late 1800s- 2 two-hour Zoom classes

2021

Artist Great Museum Series, Just a Drive Away: Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum - 3 two-hour Zoom and In Person classes

Artist Selfies - 3 two-hour Zoom classes

Great Museums: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Galeria Borghese, Rome; Museum of Modern Art, New York - 3 two-hour Zoom classes

2020

Great Museums: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Gemaldegalerie, Berlin - 3 two-hour Zoom classes

Great Museums: Musee de Louvre, Paris; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Tate Britain, Modern, Liverpool, and S Ives -3 two-hour Zoom classes

Great Museums: The Barnes, Philadelphia; Vatican Museums, Rome; National Gallery London - 3 two-hour Zoom classes

Era of Impressionism Art and Architecture in Europe and America 1870-1900 - 3 two-hour classes and optional DIA tour

2019

Great Museum Series: The Art Institute of Chicago, Museo del Prado, and Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna - 3 two-hour classes

Art before Impressionism: Art and Architecture in Europe and America 1800-1870 - 3 two-hour classes and optional DIA tour

Art and Ideas in 18th Century France - 3 two-hour classes and optional DIA tour

Art in the 17th Century - 3 two-hour classes

2018

The Italian Renaissance - 3 two-hour classes

Cities for Art Lovers: London, Vienna - 2 two-hour classes

Cities for Art Lovers: Boston, Paris - 2 two-hour classes

Great Museums Series: The British Museum London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam - series of 3 2-hour classes

2017

Architecture Old and New: Detroit and Chicago - series of 2 2-hour classes

Great Museums Series: The Musee d'Orsay, Paris; Metropolitan Museum, NY; Uffizi Gallery, Florence - series of 3 2-hour classes

Telling a Story: The Art of Illustration - 3 part series of 2 hour classes 
Introduction to Illustration; Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller; Children's Book Illustrations

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Women in Art - 3 part series of 2 hour classes How male artists over the centuries have portrayed women; The sturggle of women to become artists from 15th though 19th centuries; Twentieth century women artists get to speak for themselves

2016

Architecture in Detroit and Beyond - 3 part series: Architecture in Detroit, Detroit churches, Albert Kahn

Art in Times of Conflict: The Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Art and Ideas of the Ancient World - 4 week series: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome

2015

Cities for Art Lovers: London, Chicago, Madrid, Toledo - 4 two-hour classes

The Detroit Institute of Arts - 3 week series: History of the DIA, The European Collection, The American Collection

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera - tied to exhibition at DIA

The Golden Age of Dutch Art - 3 week series

2014

Magical Multiples: The Art of the Print - 3 week series

Capital Cities for Art Lovers: Washington DC, Berlin, Rome - 3 week series

Art and Controversy through the Ages - 3 week series of 2-hour classes

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

2013

New No Longer: The Shocking Art of the 20th Century - 3 part series

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

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

Birmingham Next

2024

Picturing America

2023

Vienna: City for Art Lovers

Art, Life, Passion: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller

2022

Great Museum Series: Uffizi, Florence

Great Museum Series, Vatican Museums 

2018

Tricks and Treats in Art  

2017

The Saarinens: A Designing Family  

2016

Detroit Architecture: Old and New  

2015

Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain  

Birmingham PEO Chapter DD

2024

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller

2018

Picturing America

Impressionism with Monet: Framing Life

 

Birmingham Unitarian Church

2014

Experiencing the Spiritual through Art - Sunday homily

Bloomfield Hills Senior Center

2024

 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2016

Art and Ideas of the Ancient World

The Real Downton Abbey and Other Stately Homes of Britain  

2015

Magical Multiples: The Art of the Print  

Bloomfield Township Public Library

2018

MADRID - City for Art Lovers

BERLIN - City for Art Lovers

2017

The Art of Flowers

Cedarbrook Senior Living of Bloomfield Hills

2023

From Mud to Magic: Ceramics through the Ages

London: City for Art Lovers

2022

The British Royals  

2021

Picturing America

The Art of Flowers

The Passionate Art of Vincent Van Gogh

Skins, Skeins, and Stitches: Fabric Art through the Ages

The Saarinens: A Designing Family  

2020

Feasting on Art

Tricks and Treats in Art

The Passionate Art of Vincent van Gogh  

2017

Detroit Architecture: Sacred Spaces  

2016

Detroit Architecture: Old and New  

Charlevoix Public Library, Charlevoix, MI

2007

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

Clarkston Garden Club

2023

The Art of Garden Design

Clawson Senior Center

2012

Impressionism

Reawaken to the Renaissance

How to Look at Art 

Community House Women's Club 

2019

The Macabre and the Magical: Art Tricks and Treats

2018

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller

Country Club of Detroit - Junior League Sustainers

2023

The British Royals  

2017

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity  

2016

The Art of Flowers  

2015

The Real Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain  

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 

Deeeplands Garden Club

2022

Flowers in Art

Detroit Institute of Arts

2019

The Detroit Institute of Arts: Rise of a Cultural Treasure - to DIA Gallery Information volunteers

Series of 2-hour enrichments on Early Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe, Italy in the 1400s, Italy in the 1500s, Northern Europe in 1500s, Italy in the 1600s, Spain, Flanders, and the Dutch Republic in the 1600s, Europe and America in the 1700s, Europe and America in the 1800s - for IPV volunteers (continued for public in 2020 as Wendy's Art History Zoom Talks)

2018

Series of 6 four 2-hour classes on Ancient Middle East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantine and Early Medieval, Romanesque and Gothic,  - peer to peer enrichment for IPV volunteers

2016

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Women in Art - to DIA Gallery Information volunteers

2015

Rise of a Cultural Treasure: A History of the DIA - to DIA Museum Shop volunteers

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

Downriver Council for the Arts

2017

Detroit Architecture: Old and New

Elderwise, Ann Arbor

2024

Diego Rivera and his Murals

History of the Detroit Institute of Art: Detroit's Cultural Treasure House - 3 two-hour classes

2023

Stars of the 17th Century - 3 two-hour classes: 1. Caravaggio, 2. Bernini, 3. Rembrandt

Picturing America - 3 two-hour classes

Leonardo da Vinci: Father of the Renaissance

 Michelangelo: Genius at Work

Raphael: The Great Synthesizer

2022

The Post-Impressionists - 3 two-hour classes

2021

Art Controversies: Old and New - 3 two-hour classes

Eleanor Roosevelt Hadassah

2021

Above Rubies: Jewish Women Artists

Farmington Area Association of Retired School Personel

2018

 The Art of Flowers

2017

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

Farmington Art Foundation

2024

Frank Gehry: Big Ideas and Big Fish

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

The British Royals

Life, Art, Passion: Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel

2023

Tricks and Treats of Art

Museo del Prado, Madrid

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg  

2020

Art, Life, and Passion: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

From Mud to Magic: Ceramics through the Ages 

2019

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller 

2018

The Saarinens: A Designing Family

Marc Chagall: Fairy Takes, Passion, and Wonder 

2017

Albert Kahn: Factories, Temples, and More  

2016

Magical Multiples: The Art of the Print  

2015

Life, Art, Passion: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

The Sensational Seventeeth Century: Baroque Art 

Farmington Garden Club

2017

The Art of Flowers

Farmington Hills Embroidery Guild of America

2015

Skins, Skeins, and Stitches : Fabric Art through the Ages 

Farmington Hills Senior Services

2024

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio - Dine and Discover

2023

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller

Vienna: City for Art Lovers - Dine and Discover

2022

Vincent van Gogh: Painter of Passion - Dine and Discover

How to Look at Art with the Eyes of an Artist - Dine and Discover program

2021

Tricks and Treats in Art - Dine and Discover program

2019

The Saarinens: A Designing Family

Monet to Dali: The Birth of the Modern - Dine and Discover program

2018

Saints and Sinners - Dine and Discover, Longacre House

Picturing America - Dine and Discover 

Art Controversies through the Ages - Dine and Discover

The Royals -  Mother's day banquet

Diego Rivera and His Murals - Dine and Discover program

2017

Albert Kahn: Detroit's Architect: Temples, Factories and More 

The Real Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain

Flowers in Art 

Detroit Architecture: Old and New

Fox Run, Novi

2024

Picturing America -Center for Continuous Learning (CCL)

2023

L'Chaim: An Introduction to Jewish Artists - Committee for Inclusion and Diversity with CCL sponsorship

2022

How to Look at Art with the Eyes of an Artist - Center for Continuous Learning (CCL)

2019

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism - Y.O.U.(Your Own University)

2018

Expressionism: The Assertive Art -Center for Continuous Learning

2017

Detroit Architecture: Sacred Spaces -Center for Continuous Learning

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity - Y.O.U. (Your Own University)

2016

Marc Chagall: Fairy Tales, Passion, and Wonder - Center for Continuous Learning 

2015

Art in the City: London - Center for Continuous Learning

Growth of a Cultural Treasure: History of the Detroit Institute of Arts - 
Eve Boicourt Commemorative Lecture, Center for Continuous Learning  

2014

L'Chaim: Jewish Artists  - Shalom Group

Art Controversies Through the Ages - 3 week series of 1 1/2 hour classes

2013

Picturing America - Center for Continuous Learning program  

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

Franklin Garden Club

2022

Flowers in Art  

2018

The Art of Garden Design

Flowers in Art  

Franklin Hills Country Club (The Cultural Season)

2019

Art, Life, and Passion: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Sieglitz  

2018

 Art Controversies Old and New  

2017

Ben Shahn: Artist and Activist  

2016

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity  

2015

Life, Art, Passion: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera  

2014

The Barnes Collection: An Extraordinary Museum  

2013

Treasure Houses of England  

2012

Art in the City:  Chicago

Historical Society of Livonia

2023

Norman Rockwell: America's Stroyteller

Historical Society of Michigan

2021

Sacred Spaces: The Churches of Detroit - History Hounds Zoom

2020

Style and Structure: The Architecture of Detroit - History Hounds 

2018

Style and Structure: The Architecture of Detroit - 60th Annual Michigan in Focus conferenc

Holocaust Memorial Center,  Farmington Hills

2011

The Third Reich and Degenerate Art

Holy Name Middle School

2024

Tricks and Treats in Art

Huntington Woods Public Library

2021

  How Could the Holocaust Happen? (Zoom)

2020

Monet to Dali: The Birth of Modern Art

Huntington Woods Study Group

2023

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

IBEX, Grosse Pointe 

2019

Life, Love, Art: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz 

Independence Township, Parks, Recreation, and Seniors

2019

The British Royals

2018

Skins, Skeins, and Stitches 

Picturing America

The Architecture of Detroit and Beyond - 3 week Immersion Series

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

Janice Charach Gallery, Jewish Community Center

2019 

Origins exhibition for 60th Anniversary of Jewish Historical Society of Michigan

2018 

Jewish Artists Collective Chicago - What We Carry

2017 

Stitching Stories 

Jewish Community Center of Ann Arbor

2023

Frank Gehry:Big Ideas and Big Fish

2021

Art, Life, Passion: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

2020

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

Louvre Museum, Paris

How to Look at Art with the Eyes of an Artist

JCC now The J Detroit - Ageless & Active

2024

The DIA with a Jewish Twist: Part 1

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

Reflections in White

Frida Kahlo: A Life of Pain, Passion, and Art

Chasing Art: Works Stolen by the Nazis

London: City for Art Lovers

Daniel Libeskind: Architect of Memory

Picturing America

Above Rubies: Jewish Women Artists

Chicago Institute of Arts

Diego Rivera and his Murals 

2023

Artists and Israel

The Art of Flowers

Norman Rockwell : America's Storyteller

Frank Gehry: Big Dreams and Big Fish 

2020

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

Jewish Museum of New York 

2019

From Mud to Magic: Ceramics through the Ages 

The Manoogian Collection 

The Jewish Spiritual Heritage

British Royals

Vienna - City for Art Lovers

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 

L'Chaim: Jewish Artists (2 for Hashoah) 

Henri Matisse; The Art of Harmony 

The Mesmerizing Art of Northern Europe

Love, Life, Art: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz  

2018

Saints and Sinners 

The Saarinens: A Designing Family  

Tricks and Treats in Art 

The Spectacular Seventeenth Century 

Gardens in Art 

The Jewish Spiritual Heritage

Expressionism: The Assertive Art

The Metropolitan Museum, New York 

Claude Monet: The Impressionist Art of Seeing 

2017

Children's Book Illustrations 

The Musee d'Orsay, Paris 

The Golden Age of Dutch Art

Detroit Institute of Arts: The American Collection

Washington DC: City for Art Lovers

Art Controversies: Old and New 

Art as Propaganda in Nazi Germany

The Detroit Institute of Arts: European Collection

Marc Chagall: Fairy Tales, Passion, and Wonder

Detroit Architecture: Old and New

2016

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

The Detroit Institute of Arts: Rise of a Cultural Treasure

Ben Shahn: Artist and Activist

Mesopotamia: Cradle of Civilization - Active Adults 

How to Look at Art with the Eyes of an Artist - Active Adults 

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity - Active Adults 

Albert Kahn: Temples, Factories, and More - Active Adults 

Albert C. Barnes: Art Collector Extraordinaire - Active Adults 

Chicago: City for Art Lovers - Active Adults 

2015

London: City for Art Lovers - Active Adults

The Art of Flowers - Active Adults

Marc Chagall and the Jewish School of Paris - Active Adults

Rembrandt and the Jews of Amsterdam - Active Adults

Post-Impressionism: Art in late 19th century France - Active Adults

Above Rubies: Jewish Women Artists - Active Adults 

Life, Art, Passion: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera - Active Adults 

Magical Multiples: The Art of the Print - Active Adults at West Bloomfield 

2014

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing - Active Adults at West Bloomfield 

Picturing America - Active Adults at West Bloomfield and Oak Park

L'Chaim: Jewish Artists - Active Adults 

Diego Rivera and his Murals - Active Adults 

English Accents - Active Adults 

The Real Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain - Active Adults 

2013

How to Look at Art with the Eyes of an Artist - Active Adult Program

2009

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

JLearn

2023

 Checking Off the List: Israeli Art at 75! - 3 week series of 1.5 hour classes

2022

 On Display: DIA Art with a Jewish Twist - 3 week series of 1.5 hour classes

 Chasing Art: Stolen Works from the Holocaust - 3 week series, 1 1/2 hours each on Zoom

2021

 A Range of Visions: More Jewish Artists - 3 week series, 1 1/2 hours each on Zoom

 A Picture is worth 1000 words: Jewish Photographers  Series of 3 Zoom classes, each 1 1/2 hrs

2020

Jewish Architects: Frank Gehry, Moshe Safdie, Daniel Libeskind - Series of 3 Zoom classes, each 1 1/2 hrs

A Private Tour of the Jewish Museum, New York - series of 3 1 1/2 hour Zoom classes

Beauty and Brutality: Art from the Holocaust - series of three 1 1/2 hour classes 

2019

  Our Jewish Spiritual Heritage - Series of four 1 1/2 hour classes
More Jewish Art and Soul -
Series of four 1 1/2 hour classes: 
Marc Chagall and the Jewish School of Paris
Art as Propaganda in the Third Reich
The Fabric of Survival: The Story of Esther Krivitz
The Chicago Jewish Artists Collective

2018

The Jewish Art and Soul - Series of six 1 1/2 hour classes: 
L'Chaim: Introduction to Jewish Art
Above Rubies: Jewish Women Artists
Marc Chagall: Fairy Tales, Passion, and Wonder
Ben Shahn: Artist and Activist
Albert Kahn: Temples, Factories, and More
Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

Jewish Historial Society of Michigan

2020

Worth above Rubies: Jewish Women Artists with focus on Michigan connections

Detroit Architecture with focus on Jewish connections

Detroit Origins JHSM 60th anniversary talk in Janice Charach gallery

Old Detroit Arthitectur: Old and New - Zoom lecture

Above Rubies - Zoom lecture

Junior League of Detroit

2023

The British Royals

2021

The Art of Garden Design

2018

The Art of Flowers

2016

The Real Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain

Kendal at Oberlin, Ohio

2023

Vienna: City for Art Lovers

2018

Norman Rockwell: America's Story Teller

Kirk in the Hills Seniors

2024

The Real Downton Abbey and other British Stately Homes

2021

Tricks and Treat in Art

Knollwood Country Club

2012

How to Look at Art

Lakeshore Garden Club, Lexington

2015

The Art of Flowers

Limmud Michigan

2024

Daniel Libeskind: Architect of Memory

2020

Beauty and Brutality: Art from the Holocaust  

2018

Above Rubies: Jewish Women Artists  

2017

The Nazi Use of Art as Propaganda  

Livonia Public Library

2023

Tricks and Treats of Art
Picturing America

2019

Ben Shahn: Artist and Activist - for Friends of the Library

Macomb Center for the Performing Arts

2015

The Real Downton Abbey -preview party presentation

Macomb Community College - Macomb Multinational International Initiatives

2016

Mesopotamia: Cradle of Civilization

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

Master Gardener Association of Wayne County 

2024

The Art of Flowers

2022

The Art of Garden Design

Meadowbrook Women 

2016

Frida Kahlo: A Life of Pain, Passion and Art

Millford Village Fine Arts Association/SHAC

2018

Tricks and Treats in Art

MORE Macomb see SOAR Macomb now MORE

National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section

2019

Annie Leibowitz: Capturing Celebrity

2016

Above Rubies: Jewish Women Artists

2014

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

Needlework and Textile Guild of Michigan

2018

Above Skins, Skeins, and Stitches: Fabric Art through the Ages 

Novi Historical Commission

2018

Picturing America 

Older Persons Commission, Rochester

2017

Art Controversies: Old and New

Flowers in Art 

Detroit Architecture: Old and New

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity 

2016

Looking at Art

London: City for Art Lovers

The Real Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain 

2011

Picturing America 

Optimist Club

2011

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing 

OLLI (Osher Livelong Learning Institute)

2021

Picturing America 

Osher at UC San Diego

2024

Ai Wei Wei:Artist and Activist

 
 2023

Betye and Alison Saar: Transforming Outrage into Art  

Eva Hesse:Unconventional and Eccentric

2022

Constantin Brancusi:Sculptor of Pure Joy 

Palette and Brush Club

2012

English Accents

2010

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

Plymouth Garden Club

2024

The Art of Garden Design

Plymouth PEO

2024

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

2020

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

Questers

2019

The Macabre and the Magical: Tricks and Treats of Art

2018

The Art of Flowers

Rochester Hills Public Library

2017

A Passionate Couple: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

Rochester Hills Museum

2024

Illustrations in Children's Books

Saint John Armenian Church - Women's Guild

2023

 Saintly Women in Art

St Regis Catholic Church - New Dawn Group

2022

Experiencing the Spiritual in Art

Samaritas Bloomfield Hills

2017

Albert Kahn: Detroit's Architect

Art Collectors: Jane and Richard Manoogian

Detroit Institute of Arts: Growth of a Cultural Treasure

Detroit Architecture: Sacred Spaces

The Real Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain 

2016

Detroit Architecture: Old and New  

Sanilac County Historical Museum

2005

Visions of Egyptian Art - lecture as museum fundraiser

Schoolcraft College Continuing Education

2017

The Real Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain - Dine and Discover 

Second Sunday Discussion Group

2018

Ben Shahn: Artist and Activist

2017

Marc Chagall: Fairy Tales, Passion, and Wonder

Shaarey Zedec: Berman Center for Jewish Education

2019

  Chicago Jewish Artists Collective 

2017

 Protesting Injustice: The Art of Ben Shahn 

 Above Rubies: Jewish Women Artists 

 L'Chaim: Introduction to Jewish Artists 

 MORE Macomb (previously SOAR Macomb)

2024

Diego Rivera and his Murals

Norman Rockell: America's Storyteller

2023

Tricks and Treats in Art

2022

Sensational Selfies: Artist Self-Portraits

2021

Picturing America

2020

Tricks and Treats in Art

2019

Art of Garden Design

2018

Albert Kahn: Detroit's Architect 

Art Controversies: Old and New

2017

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing

The DIA: A (R)evolution  --  Behind the Scene Talk given as a DIA volunteer 

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

2016

Looking at Art with the Eyes of an Artist

Detroit Architecture: Old and New

2015

The Real Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain 

SOAR  Society of Active Retirees

2024

Tricks and Treats in Art

Frank Gehry: Big Ideas, Big Fish - 1 1/2 hour class

2023

Picturing America - 2 hour class

2021

Painters of Urban Life: The Ashcan School - 2 hour class

2019

The Nazi Use of Art as Propaganda - 2 hour class

2018

The Saarinens: A Designing Family - 2 hour class

American Art of the Great Depression 

2017

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller 

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing 

2016

Looking at Art with the Eyes of an Artist

Detroit Architecture: Old and New

2015

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Unhealed Wounds: The Art of World War I

2014

Picturing America

Art and Controversies Old and New

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

Storytellers Guild at the Community House, Birmingham 

2019

Illustrations in Books for Children 

Temple Beth El Sisterhood

2005

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

Temple Emanu-El 

2017

  L'Chaim: Introduction to Jewish Artists -Spring Festival presentation

Three Cities Art Club

2024

  Color in Art: Reflections on White

Tikva Hadassah

2011

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

Tollgate Farm and Garden Volunteers

2024

The Art of Flowers

Troy Garden Club

2023

The Art of Garden Design

2021

Flowers in Art  

Universalist Unitarian Church of Farmington

2017

 Experiencing the Spiritual through Art 

Village Club, Bloomfield Hills

2024

Life, Passion, and Art: 1. Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel; 2. Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffes; 3. Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. Series of 3 1 1/2 hour talks

Just a Drive Away: The Chicago Institute of Arts; Cleveland Art Museum; Toledo Art Museum series of 3 1 1/2 hour talks

2023

Annie Liebovitz: Capturing Celebrity

Impressionism: The Art of Seeing

2022

The British Royals

2019

The Amalfi Coast of Italy for Art Lovers

2018

Illustrations in Books for Children 

Tricks and Treats in Art

The Art of Garden Design

Marc Chagall: Fairy Tales, Passion, and Wonder 

2017

Norman Rockwell: America's Storyteller 

The Saarinens: A Designing Family 

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

Annie Leibovitz: Capturing Celebrity

Detroit Institute of Art: Modern and Contemporary Collections

2016

Albert Kahn: Temples, Factories, and More

Mesopotamia: Cradle of Civilization

New No Longer: The Shocking Art of the 20th Century

Detroit Architecture: Sacred Places

The Art of Flowers

2015

Detroit Architecture: Old and New

The Real Downton Abbey and other Treasure Houses of Britain - Village Club members dinner talk

The Golden Age of Dutch Art

The Toledo Museum of Art

Art in the City -  Chicago

Life, Art , Passion: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo

Magical Multiples: A History of the Print

2014

Major Museums: 
Metropolitan Museum, The Tate, Louvre -
series of 3 weekly 1 1/2-hour classes

American Collectors of Art and Their Treasure - series of 3 weekly 1 1/2-hour classes on Duncan Phillip, Alfred Barnes and Richard Manoogian

2013

The Detroit Institute of Arts -  
History of the DIA
week 1
The European Collection
week 2
The American Collection
week 3 

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

West Bloomfield Public Library

2015

Book Discussion: Heyden Herrera: Frida:A Biography of Frida Kahlo

Women of Bloomfield 

2016

The Real Downton Abbey 

Wendy's Art History Talks 

2023

Monthly series of 2-hour in-depth Zoom enrichments:

 Art of the Print: 3 month series

 

2022

Monthly series of 2-hour in-depth Zoom enrichments:

Art Challenges - 5 month series

Art in the 1970s and onward

Art in the US in the 1960s 

2021

Series of 2-hour in-depth Zoom enrichments:

Europe and American Art in the 1900s including World War I and its aftermath

Art in France, Russia, the US, and Germany

Art as Propaganda in Nazi Germany

Art by those persecuted by the Nazis
Art in Europe and the US 1945-1960

2020

Series of 2-hour in-depth Zoom enrichments: Europe and American Art in the 1800s 

 

 

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