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C O M M U N I T Y E D U C AT I O N
SPRING
2020
On Our Cover
“Spring Garden”, mixed media, 20” x 16”, Marina Thompson
Used with kind permission of the artist and gallery twist
www.gallerytwist.com
About the Artist
Marina Thompson is a mixed media artist, born in Lexington, MA. Her work is colorful, rhythmic,
and layered. Made using many different media (first digital iPad drawings, then pigmented wax
layers, and then overpainting with oil) many layers are built up. There is a lot to discover and
interact with.
Her father was an architect and partner of Walter Gropius. Drawing on the Bauhaus-influenced
world from her childhood, her art is graphically strong, as well as informed by her years in textile
design and illustration.
marinathompson.com
The bud LCE Online
Table of Contents Complete course descriptions, class
stands for all things,
status, and registration information
even for those things Around Town...................................7 can be found online at
that don’t flower, Mind & Body................................. 29 www.lexingtoncommunityed.org
for everything flowers, from Business, Career & Finance......... 27 Lexington Public Schools
within, of self-blessing;
Courses for Children.................... 20 Superintendent of Schools:
though sometimes it is necessary Dr. Julie Hackett
Computers.................................... 19 Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum,
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
Cooking........................................ 25 Instruction, and Professional Development:
to put a hand on the brow Christine Lyons, M.Ed., PhD
Creating Community......................7
of the flower, LEXINGTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE
ELL/Languages............................. 15 Chair: Eileen Jay
and retell it in words and in touch,
Kate Colburn
it is lovely Exercise & Dance......................... 30
Scott Bokun
until it flowers again from within, Fine Arts, Fabric & Kathleen Lenihan
of self-blessing Graphic Arts............................... 12 Deepak Sawhney
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
– Galway Kinnell Home, Hobbies &Travel.............. 26 Rosanna Jiang
Excerpt from “Saint Francis and the Sow” Humanities.......................................8
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About Lexington Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
Community Education Instructor Biographies................. 32 (Access office via 328 Lowell Street)
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Registration Information.............. 34
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Our Classes for Children are for specific Refund Policy............................. 34 Catalog Design: Pehlke Design
ages. LCE provides an extensive summer
children’s program called Lexplorations
which offers classes for creative and
academic enrichment.
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Lexington Community Education presents
One Night on Earth Writing Wild: 25 Women Who
WITH DEREK GRIPPER Shaped the Way We Read the
Friday, April 10, 2020 • 7:30 pm
Follen Church Society, 755 Mass. Ave, Lexington • $20 • SDEG
Natural World
“Five stars…Gripper has brilliantly transferred [the kora] WITH KATHRYN AALTO
repertoire onto a regular six string guitar. He sees [Toumani] Thursday, April 16, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm
Diabaté as the Segovia, or indeed John Williams, of the kora, Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SWWW
championing it as a solo instrument. And Gripper brilliantly takes In her latest book Writing Wild:
it back to the guitar. He’s opening a whole new repertoire of Women Poets, Ramblers, and
classical guitar music…bringing African guitar into the classical Mavericks Who Shape How We
mainstream.” [Simon Broughton] See the Natural World, Kathryn
Derek Gripper is a Classical Aalto takes readers on a journey
guitarist from Cape Town through the natural world as seen
specialising in the kora music from the perspective of 25 women
of Mali, in particular the music writers (Dorothy Wordsworth,
of Malian kora player Toumani Susan Fenimore Cooper, Gene
Diabaté. It took Gripper untold Stratton-Porter, Mary Austin, Vita
hours of painstaking work to Sackville-West, Nan Shepherd,
transcribe note-for-note the Rachel Carson, Mary Oliver, Carolyn
complex compositions of Malian Merchant, Annie Dillard, Gretel
kora player Toumani Diabaté Ehrlich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Diane Ackerman, Robin Wall
and find a way of playing them Kimmerer, Lauret Savoy, Rebecca Solnit, Kathleen Jamie, Carolyn
on six-string guitar. The results Finney, Helen Macdonald, Saci Lloyd, Andrea Wulf, Camille T.
appeared on his ninth album, Dungy, Elena Passarello, Amy Liptrot, and Elizabeth Rush). Part
“One Night on Earth.” The album created an unprecedented travel essay, literary biography, and cultural history, Writing Wild
meeting point between the written tradition of Western classical ventures into the landscapes and lives of extraordinary writers
music and the oral tradition of the West African griots. Critical and encourages a new generation of women to pick up their
acclaim was quick to follow. Classical guitar legend John pens, head outdoors, and start writing wild.
Williams said he thought it was “absolutely impossible until I Beginning with a journey up England’s tallest mountain in the
heard Derek Gripper do it.” Toumani Diabaté himself asked Lake District in the footsteps of Dorothy Wordsworth, Writing
for confirmation that it was indeed just one person playing one Wild captures pioneering women who dared to lace up their
guitar. Both invited Derek to collaborate with them: Derek boots and pick up their pens to make history. This evening we will
performed with Williams in London’s Shakespeare’s Globe and celebrate female wordsmiths, both historical and current, whose
King’s Place, and with Diabaté and his Symmetric Orchestra at influential nature writing has deepened our connection to and
the Acoustik Festival Bamako, Mali. He also played with Trio understanding of the natural world. These inspiring wordsmiths
da Kali at Carnegie Hall and won a Songlines Award for the are scholars, spiritual seekers, conservationists, scientists,
best album in Africa and the Middle East. Derek tours regularly novelists, and explorers. They defy easy categorization but share
in the USA, Canada, Britain, Europe, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, a bold authenticity that makes their work distinct and universal.
Namibia, Australia, Malaysia, India and Mali. Aside from these
Kathryn Aalto is an American landscape historian, garden
transcriptions Derek has created original music from his diverse
designer, university lecturer, preservation consultant, and
influences, from Africa: Mali, Senegal, The Gambia, South Africa,
writer. She has a M.A. in Garden History and a M.A. in Creative
Zimbabwe, Arvo Part, and Egberto Gismonti. Derek has also
Nonfiction. She also has a diploma in Garden Design from the
spent many years performing and recording his own translations
London College of Garden Design and a B.A. in English from
of Bach’s violin and cello music, infusing his interpretations with
Berkeley. Kathryn is the author of three books including the New
his lessons from the oral traditions of Africa. His works for string
York Times Best Seller, The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A
quartet, larger ensembles or installations have been performed/
Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
exhibited at The Venice Architecture Biennale, Peasmarsh
(2015) and Nature and Human Intervention (2011).
Chamber Music Festival in the UK and used in films such as “Five
Fingers For Marseilles.”
The views of our presenters and instructors do not necessarily LCE is proud to partner with
represent the views of Lexington Community Education, the Porter Square Books of Cambridge.
Lexington Public Schools and/or its employees. portersquarebooks.com
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Lexington Community Education presents
Indian Classical Saxophones An Evening of Music,
and Jazz Poetry and Story
WITH THE LEWIS PORTER- WITH DAVID WHETSTONE AND MARTIN SHAW
PHIL SCARFF GROUP & MASTERS FROM INDIA Thursday, May 28, 2020 • 7:00-9:00 pm
Saturday, May 9, 2020 • 7:00-9:00 pm Follen Church Society, 755 Mass. Ave, Lexington • $20 • SMAS
Follen Church Society, 755 Mass. Ave, Lexington • $20 • SICS Martin Shaw is a teacher of profound cultural knowledge, and is
Deeply meditative ragas. Edgy contemporary jazz. Beautifully a master artist at transmitting it. Those transmissions are subtle
intricate rhythms. Soaring flights of melodic exploration. and profound. We desperately need his work.” – Tony Hoagland
Percussion fireworks. The Lewis Porter-Phil Scarff Group with Dr. Martin Shaw is a mythologist,
guest master musicians from India put it all together in this storyteller, and wilderness rites-of-
exciting one-time collaboration. passage guide based in Devonshire,
New York-based England. Shaw gave up a lucrative
Grammy-nominated music contract to pursue the
pianist, composer, study of myth while living for four
educator, and years in a tent in the wilderness of
author Lewis Porter Wales. An international teacher,
combines forces with he tours the United States and
Boston saxophonist Canada annually and is visiting
and composer lecturer on Archbishop Desmond
Phil Scarff in the Tutu’s Leadership program at
Lewis Porter-Phil Oxford University and leads the
Scarff Group (www. Oral Tradition and Mythology program at Stanford University in
porterscarff.com). Scarff, noted for his mastery of jazz as well as Northern California. He is the author of many books including
Indian music, is one of the few Americans who tours India every Courting the Wild Twin, Cinderbiter: Celtic Poems, and the award
year alongside Indian masters. The quartet is rounded out with winning ‘A Branch From The Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and
Berklee star faculty Bertram Lehmann on drums, and Lexington’s the Grace in Wildness’.
own Jason Davis on bass. From jazz standards to contemporary David Whetstone is one of the most active
treatments of traditional Indian classical fare, and from melodic sitarists in the United States, and a disciple
originals to free-wheeling improvisation, East emerges from of the legendary Ustad Vilayat Khan. He has
West and the audacious emerges from the contemplative. collaborated and toured extensively with poets
“Conceptually imaginative, impeccably performed,” raves Robert Bly and Coleman Barks since 1974. David
Downbeat. lives in Minneapolis, and teaches at Carleton
Our distinguished College.
guest artists are in the
USA for a limited time.
Both are the winners
of awards in India:
Classical saxophonist
Priyank Krishna
(priyankkrishna.weebly.
com) has delighted audiences in India and at festivals worldwide
with his mastery of North Indian ragas on the saxophone.
Anoop Banerjee is one of India’s foremost tabla artists and has
performed with many of its best known virtuosos.
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THE FIVEASH LEGACY LECTURE
I Can also Think to Learn:
A Book Launch Celebration What the Ancient Greek Tragedies
WITH MARCIA STEERE Can Teach Us Today
Thursday, April 30, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm WITH BRYAN DOERRIES
Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • STTL Sunday, May 3, 2020 • 4:00-5:30 pm
Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $20 • SBRY
We all know that school is a place where
the concept of "learning how to think" Brooklyn-based writer, director,
is explored, and yet it is remarkable how translator, and lecturer, Bryan
struggling learners can enthusiastically Doerries is cofounder and
"think to learn" as well. As an educator, Artistic Director of Theater of
researcher and parent of a LABBB War Productions, a social impact
student at Lexington High School, company that reclaims the power
Marcia Steere cared about and worked of the ancient Greek texts and
toward expanding the intellectual uses theater to address pressing
potential of LABBB students by creating social and public health issues and
a series of classes and a curriculum present them to at-risk people
that enhanced development through in society. Featuring prominent
class discussion, individual assignments film and stage actors in staged
leading to creative endeavors, daily homework, and tests that readings of plays from Antigone
allowed students to demonstrate "think to learn" growth. The to Long Days Journey Into Night—each production followed by
group learning environment and effect meant that every student provocative and intimate audience discussion—he addresses
became an active participant, and parental involvement was head on issues such as combat-related psychological injury,
especially beneficial. Her new book I Can also Think to Learn: PTSD, gun violence, police/community relations, end of life care,
How Academic Stimulation leads to Growth in Students with Mild suicide, prison reform, political violence and torture, domestic
Intellectual Disabilities describes the results of a multifaceted violence, alcohol/substance abuse and addiction, and natural
four year journey of teaching and learning across disciplines, and manmade disasters. Viewing the Greek Tragedies not only
and explains how she and other LABBB staff developed and as storytelling but a profound means of truth-telling, Doerries is a
experimented with curriculum and testing designed to both self-described evangelist for classical literature and its relevance
challenge and excite struggling learners. The book, and this to our lives today. Through his many and diverse theater projects,
evening's talk shares what teachers and students did, and what Doerries uses age-old approaches to communalize the trauma
they learned. and help communities and individuals heal from trauma and loss.
He shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless
Marcia Steere is an author, parent, artist, and educational
process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked.
researcher who holds a BA in arts and sciences and a BS in
“Our objective is to bridge the divide,” Doerries says, “to
education from Indiana University. She has done research in
raise consciousness, and move us to positive action.” Hailed
education in conjunction with the Institute for International
by the Department of Defense as a “revolutionary public
Education at Stockholm University and mathematical conception
health campaign,” Doerries’s groundbreaking Theater of War
studies with Irene Muira of San Jose University. She is the author
has presented over 350 performances of Sophocles’ Ajax and
of an art book, Poems for my Coloring Book.
Philoctetes for military and civilian audiences throughout the
United States, Europe, and Japan, performing at military sites as
diverse as the Pentagon, Guantanamo Bay, Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, homeless shelters, high school auditoriums,
theaters, and churches.
Bryan Doerries lectures on his work at cultural venues
throughout the world and, in recent years, has taught courses
at Princeton University, the Stella Adler School of Acting, and
the Bard Prison Initiative. He is a proud board member of the
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Arts in the Armed Forces,
and Friends of the Young Writers Workshop. His books include,
The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us
Today, along with All That You’ve Seen Here is God, a volume of
Doerries’s translations of ancient Greek tragedies.
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Motherhood Across Borders: Sharenthood:
Immigrants and their Children in Why We Should Think before
Mexico and New York We Talk about Our Kids Online
WITH GABRIELLE OLIVEIRA WITH LEAH PLUNKETT
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm Wednesday, June 10, 2020 • 7:00-8:30 pm
Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SMAB Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square, Lexington • $10 • SLEA
While we have an incredible amount Our children's first digital footprints
of statistical information about are made before they can walk―even
immigrants coming in and out of before they are born―as parents use
the United States, we know very fertility apps to aid conception, post
little about how migrant families ultrasound images, and share their
stay together and raise their baby's hospital mug shot. Then, in
children. Beyond the numbers, rapid succession come terabytes of
what are the everyday experiences baby pictures stored in the cloud,
of families with members on both digital baby monitors with built-in
sides of the border? Focusing on artificial intelligence, and real-time
Mexican women who migrate to updates from daycare. When school
New York City and leave children starts, there are cafeteria cards
behind, Motherhood across that catalog food purchases, bus
Borders examines parenting from afar, as well as the ways in passes that track when kids are on and off the bus, electronic
which separated siblings cope with different experiences across health records in the nurse's office, and a school surveillance
borders. Oliveira offers a unique focus on the many consequences system that has eyes everywhere. Unwittingly, parents, teachers,
of maternal migration and illuminates the life trajectories of and other trusted adults are compiling digital dossiers for
separated siblings, including their divergent educational paths, children that could be available to everyone―friends, employers,
and the everyday struggles that undocumented mothers go law enforcement―forever. In this incisive book, Leah Plunkett
through in order to figure out how to be a good parent to all of examines the implications of “sharenthood”―adults' excessive
their children, no matter where they live. digital sharing of children's data. She outlines the mistakes adults
Gabrielle Oliveira’s research focuses on immigration and make with kids' private information, the risks that result, and the
mobility—on how people move, adapt, and parent across legal system that enables “sharenting.”
borders. Her expertise includes gender, anthropology, Leah Plunkett describes various modes of sharenting―including
transnationalism, and bilingualism with a concentration on Latin “commercial sharenting,” efforts by parents to use their families'
America. Merging the fields of anthropology and education private experiences to make money―and unpacks the faulty
through ethnographic work in multiple countries, Oliveira also assumptions made by our legal system about children, parents,
studies the educational trajectories of immigrant and first- and privacy. She proposes a “thought compass” to guide adults
generation children. Oliveira received her bachelor’s degree in in their decision making about children's digital data: play, forget,
her native Brazil and earned her master’s and doctoral degrees connect, and respect. Enshrining every false step and bad choice,
from Columbia University, where she was also a National Plunkett argues, can rob children of their chance to explore
Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation. She and learn lessons. The Internet needs to forget. We need to
is a current manuscript reviewer at the Journal of Diaspora, remember.
Indigenous and Minority Education and the Journal of
Anthropology and Education Quarterly. She is also the co-
founder of the group Colectiva Infancias, which develops free
courses on the sociology and anthropology of children and
migration in Latin America.
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Creating Community/
Around Town
Making a Difference for
Those with Dementia
Instructor: Carla Koehl
Do you have a loved one who is living with
dementia–or who is providing care for
someone with dementia? If you’ve wanted
to learn more about what dementia is, gallery twist
and how to have successful interactions Lexington’s gallery twist is located in the
with those you encounter who live with center of town at 1963 Massachusetts
dementia, this one-hour informational Avenue, in a beautiful historic home near
session will provide helpful information. Household Goods
the Battle Green. The gallery’s unique
You will leave with a new understanding Household Goods is a non-profit,
setting in a beautiful historic house,
of how to help reduce the stigma of volunteer driven organization that
together with the distinctive way they
dementia, and how to better engage with provides a full-range of donated furniture
display art, makes for a gallery with a
those living with the condition. and household items, free of charge, to
twist. Each year gallery twist presents
PDEM, 1 Monday, 10:00-11:00 am. Meets help people in need make a home.
five exhibitions that offer visitors an
April 6, LCE, Large Conference Room, 146 Each year Household Goods furnishes opportunity to enjoy an eclectic mix of
Maple St, Access via 328 Lowell St., $5. 2,700 homes for people in need referred New England artwork in various styles and
by social service agencies throughout media. Typically 200+ artworks by 30+
Lex Eat Together Massachusetts. Help someone in need set artists are shown. Here, in a home setting,
Lex Eat Together is a nonprofit, volunteer- up a home by volunteering or donating you can easily imagine the art in your own
led organization serving a free, nutritious good quality furniture and smaller home or workspace. Owners John and
dinner every Wednesday in the heart of household items. Donations are accepted Gillian Ross encourage visitors to ‘just
Lexington for anyone in need of food or Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays be’ with each piece, and offer what many
companionship. Begun in October 2015 from 9 to noon (except holidays and have called ‘an art experience’. For more
and modeled on successful programs in major holiday weekends) at 530 Main information about visiting and current
nearby towns, Lex Eat Together provides Street, Acton, MA 01720. Please visit exhibits please visit: www.gallerytwist.com
a healthy, well-balanced meal to all who householdgoods.org for a complete list
come to join us. To learn more, sign up of acceptable donations and volunteer
to volunteer, or make a donation, please opportunities.
LEXMEDIA
visit our website at lexeattogether.org, Voices on the Green at STUDIOS
“Like” their page at Facebook.com/ First Parish in Lexington
LexEatTogether or email lexeattogether@ A program of storytellers and music
gmail.com. on the theme, “And Then a Funny
Thing Happened,” true stories of the
Home Alone odd, hilarious, paradoxical, or bizarre
Instructor: Officers of the Lexington Police occurrences of our personal lives. This
and Fire Departments program is one in an ongoing series of
Help your child feel safer and more programs called Voices on the Green,
secure when home alone or with siblings, on topics of wide community interest,
and teach them smart telephone and created by First Parish in Lexington. Each Media Production Classes at
doorbell answering strategies. This class event includes storytellers with MOTH- LexMedia
is designed for children ages 9 and style personal stories about the impact All classes at LexMedia are free and
older. Younger children may attend with of the topic in their personal lives; and available to people who live, work or
an accompanying adult. Instructors are live music performances related to the attend school in Lexington. For more
officers from the Lexington Police and theme. There is a separate, concurrent information and to sign up for a class
Fire Departments. Class size is limited so Children’s Voices Storytelling event at First go to https://www.lexmedia.org/events-
please register early. Parish that evening led by a professional classes/. LexMedia is a membership-
K009, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-7:30 pm. Meets storyteller that is open to all children. based non-profit community access media
April 28, Lexington High School, Room Doors open at 6:30 pm for refreshments center serving the town of Lexington,
221. Free, but pre-registration is required. and conversation. All are welcome. Massachusetts.
General Admission Seating. Suggested
donation: General $10; Donor $20; Youth/
Student/Child: $5. Tickets in advance at
Voicesonthegreen.org or at the door.
For information on how to participate,
contact David Rose at drose@cast.org.
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Humanities Music and
Theatre Arts
Each term our humanities section NEW Women of Greco-Roman NEW American Music History
offers classes that aim to heighten our Mythology Instructor: Staff from Go Go Allegro
understanding of the human experience Instructor: Skye Shirley Music School
and honor the idea and ideals of a liberal Explore the most influential genres of
The Ancient Greeks and
arts education. American music. Ranging from traditional
Romans wove fascinating
interconnected tales of blues in the late 1800’s, jazz in the early
NEW Shakespeare’s Richard III witches, wives, prophetesses, 1900’s, Rock n Roll and Motown in the mid
Instructor: Cammy Thomas and temptresses, which have inspired 1900’s and modern eclectic mixes of all of
“Now is the winter of our discontent,” the artists and writers from antiquity until these and more.
play begins, the line spoken by Richard, today. Greco-Roman societies were all MLIT, 6 Thursdays, 7:00-8:00 pm. Begins
a bitter, malignant combatant in the patriarchies, and their myths often reflect April 16, Lexington High School, Room
medieval Wars of the Roses. He’s a nasty patriarchal systems of control and anxieties, 229, $115.
piece of work, and admits it up front. and at the same time we will see examples
And he’s after the crown, but there are of women rebelling against patriarchy Fundamentals of
many claimants in his way. How will he and asserting their own agency. We will Indian Classical Music
get rid of them? Shakespeare’s language examine how constructions of gender and Instructor: Srinivas Reddy
in this play is brilliant and beautiful, sexuality functioned in ancient societies as
Fundamentals of Indian Classical
including some of his best insults, as when a method of control for female behavior.
Music offers a general introduction to
former Queen Margaret calls Richard We will first meet the key goddesses in
the theory of raga and tala, the core
a “poisonous, bunch-backed toad”! the Greco-Roman pantheon, and explore
musical concepts that underlie all Indian
Come and be amazed, or horrified, by famous myths from the Trojan War and
classical music. Drawing primarily from
Richard’s evil designs. What forces in the Greek tragedy. All throughout the course,
the Hindustani tradition, this course
play, and maybe in himself, stand against we will highlight connections to classic
will explore the definition, historical
his ambition, cruelty, amorality? No female archetypes in modern culture and
development, complexity and creative
experience with Shakespeare is necessary. see how recent adaptations continue the
realization of both raga and tala. By using
The first week will be an introduction evolution of these foundational myths.
musical excerpts, live demonstration
to the play (no reading for that week), HWGR, 8 Mondays, 5:30-7:00 pm. Begins and interactive exercises, we will also
followed by five weeks, one act per week April 6, Lexington High School, Room 234, explore the improvisatory nature of Indian
until done. $120/Seniors $100. music and how these techniques can be
HKR3, 6 Thursdays 7:30-9:00 pm. Begins incorporated into one’s own creativity.
April 2, Lexington High School, Room 225, Introduction to
NEW
MFIC, 1 Monday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets
$95/Seniors $75. Roman History April 6, Lexington High School, Room 240,
Instructor: Skye Shirley $25/Seniors $20.
NEW All Quiet on the
How did a small settlement along the
Western Front Tiber River expand to encompass the NEW Spring Opera Preview
Instructor: Tracy Marks entire Mediterranean and leave its mark Instructor: David Collins
The award-winning classic, All Quiet on the on so many aspects of our lives over
This spring we will enjoy two very unique
Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 2000 years later? In this course we will
operas being produced by Odyssey
is a vivid portrayal of a German soldier’s follow the city of Rome from its scrappy
Opera in Boston along with an opera in
experience on the front lines during World beginnings as it fought other local tribes
HD from the New York Met. We begin
War I. In this class, we will discuss this to its growth into a republic that has
with an exploration of Benjamin Britten’s
literary masterpiece and view clips from lasted longer than our own has been in
opera, Gloriana, which was written to
the film. We will also read excerpts from existence. We’ll ask the hard questions
celebrate the coronation of Queen
the highly relevant sequel, The Road Back, about how the republic collapsed into
Elizabeth ll. Full of choruses, dances and
about a veteran’s mental and emotional civil wars and re-emerged as an empire.
vocal numbers, this opera is as close as
struggles returning to Germany after losing We will also reflect on how we know what
Britten ever got to writing a grand opera.
the war. Please read the chapters 1-3 of we know about the past, and interrogate
We next take a look at Donizetti’s second
All Quiet (Wheen translation, free online) the power structures that leave so many
opera in his trilogy on Queen Elizabeth l –
before the first class. voices out of mainstream Roman history.
Maria Stuarda / Mary Stuart. In this opera,
HWTL, 7 Fridays, 12:30-2:30 pm. Begins From empresses to slaves, refugees
Donizetti creates a highly charged duet as
April 17, LCE Large Conference Room, from volcanic eruptions to merchants in
Elizabeth and Mary confront each other
Access by 328 Lowell Street, and enter the forum, we will familiarize ourselves
(a meeting which never really occurred)
through the blue side door of the Old with countless Romans through primary
and finishes the opera with one of his
Harrington school. $135 /Seniors $105. literature and artifacts.
greatest soprano aria-finales. Finally
HIRSH, 8 Wednesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm. we get acquainted with the composer
Begins April 15, Lexington High School, Edward German and his comic operetta
Room 234, $120/Seniors $100. Merrie England. Composed in the style
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of Gilbert and Sullivan, this piece offers a “late beginner” level or higher. Please Guitar Rock Band Sessions
light-hearted look at the court of Queen contact the instructor with any questions Instructor: Robert Butler
Elizabeth l. Join us as we prepare for these or concerns regarding playing ability.
Trained at Berklee College of Music,
special performances. Classes will meet Depending on the interest of the group,
teacher performer Robert Butler has
on April 7, May 5 and June 2. the last class can end with a performance
developed this six week guitar workshop
HOPE, 3 Tuesdays, 6:30-9:00 pm. Begins for family and friends.
focusing on the iconic melodies, riffs
April 7 and meets May 5 and June 2, MSTE, 7 Mondays, 7:30-9:00 pm. Begins
and driving rhythms that have been the
Lexington High School, Room 240, $85/ April 6, Lexington High School, Room 240,
foundation of Rock music from the 1950’s
Seniors/$65. $185/Seniors $140.
to the present. Students of all levels
will be guided in a relaxed yet efficient
Private Music Instrument Lessons Beginning Guitar
approach to the wide variety of guitar
for Every Age and Level Instructor: Staff from Go Go Allegro techniques so essential in playing Rock
LCE provides excellent, convenient, and Music School chord progressions, bassline riffs and
reasonably priced individual music lessons This exciting beginners guitar course exciting improvised lead guitar solos
with highly qualified professional musician will introduce students to fundamental that shape this powerful and historic
teachers for all interested students and technique and knowledge of the music style. Each session begins with a
adults. The following instruments are instrument, general musicianship and 30 minute live classroom demonstration.
available for individual study: Baritone introductory level pieces of music. These All will receive individual instruction
Horn (Euphonium), Bass, Bassoon, classes will expose students to different with Mr. Butler addressing your specific
Cello, Clarinet, Electric and Acoustic styles of music and the cultures that have questions and musical goals. Everyone,
Guitar, Flute, French Horn, Guitar, influenced multiple musical genres. Please regardless of proficiency, is welcome
Oboe, Percussion (Drums/xylophone), bring a guitar with you to class, other to participate in class ensemble/ jams
Saxophone, Sitar, Trombone, Trumpet, materials will be provided. playing a part that matches your ability
Tuba, Ukulele, Upright Bass, Violin or MBGU, 6 Mondays, 9:15 am - 10:15 am. and skill level. Students are encouraged
Viola, and Voice. Lessons are held in Begins April 13, LCE Large Conference to bring to class recordings of their
the afternoon and evening at Lexington Room, Access by 328 Lowell Street, and favorite Rock artists which will be used
High School. Each semester contains enter through the blue side door of the to demonstrate and explain technique,
approximately 16 lessons. Students must Old Harrington school. $160. composition and practical applied theory.
arrange convenient weekly lesson times You need not be able to read classical
with the instructor. The length of lessons NEW Beginning Guitar – notation to benefit from this series of
per week can be: 30 minute, 45 minute, or Continued informative sessions. Whether you are a
60 minutes. To register: Call the LCE office Instructor: Staff from Go Go Allegro beginner or an experienced player, you
and we will put you in touch with our Music School will achieve success as a guitarist with Mr.
music teaching staff. Saturday morning Butler’s Guitar Rock Band Sessions. Also
Continue to develop your fundamentals
lessons are also available. included: How to choose and set up your
in the guitar by learning new techniques
For info about LCE Music teaching instrument , amplification and electronic
and pieces of music. These classes will
staff, please visit: https:// effects devices to achieve the sounds
pose a slight challenge to build your
lexingtoncommunityed.org/music- heard on recordings by The Ventures,
abilities, but still accommodate learning
instrument-lessons/ Hendrix, Santana, Dire Straits, Van Halen
at a comfortable pace. Please bring your
and many more. Each student should
guitar to class, all other materials will be
Instrumental Camerata for Adults provided.
have an acoustic or electric guitar or bass,
Instructor: James Alers portable amp and a notebook. Optional
MGUI, 6 Mondays, 10:15 am - 11:15 am. but recommended, a phone or other
This class is designed for adults with a Begins April 13, LCE Large Conference device for recording class instruction. Mr.
wide range of skills who are interested in Room, Access by 328 Lowell Street, and Butler will supply all music charts, lead
playing chamber music together. We will enter through the blue side door of the sheets and texts.
explore different pieces from the classical Old Harrington school. $160.
repertoire, and address both the technical MRGW, 6 Thursdays, 6:30-9:00 pm.
and musical components of ensemble Begins April 30, Lexington High School,
playing. Whether you are a beginner or Room 247, $155/Seniors $130.
someone who has taken an extended
break from playing but would like to
PRIVATE MUSIC
resume (and need a motivational program INSTRUMENT LESSONS
to help!), this is sure to be a rewarding this page
experience. The class is open to violinists,
violists, cellists, bassists, oboist, flutists,
and bassoonists who are comfortable with
basic note-reading, and are playing at a
One Night on Earth, with master guitarist
Derek Gripper, p. 3.
Lexington Community Education | Spring 2020 9
Writing
Acting Skills for Business Public Speaking with Confidence Whether it originates from memory or
Instructor: Lau Lapides Instructor: Lau Lapides fantasy, takes shape as poetry or prose,
Business professionals want to learn Are you making the impression you our expert writing staff will help you get
the trade secrets that stage actors and want to be making? Need to polish your your word out.
industry pros know in the media and speaking skills for work? Want to eliminate
broadcasting industry! Come learn the fears and anxieties of speaking? From NEW Paying Attention to
actors bag of tricks geared specifically for the moment you enter a room in literally Internal Conflicts: How to Use
corporate presenters, sales professionals, seconds you make your impression...your Complicated and Contradictory
customer service personnel. Learn how smile, your voice, your first few words, Feelings in Creative Writing
to get a leg up on the competition and your style, your energy, your initial eye
Instructor: Tom Daley
get that promotion. As analytical thinkers contact--all of these ingredients create
working in quantitative ways our goal is the successful chemistry to “command If you avoid the conflict to keep the peace
to train you to develop the highest level presence!” In this dynamic, fast-paced you start a war inside yourself.
of soft skills available, and apply these exciting workshop you will strengthen — Cheryl Richardson
skills to your work. Discover tools and and polish your speaking style by From Hamlet’s soliloquy, “To be or not
techniques to build confidence while utilizing tools and techniques to help to be,” to Katniss Everdeen’s conflict
strengthening physical and vocal presence you engage your audience and polish between the reluctance to kill and the
whether you are presenting live, online, your presentation. Build self-confidence wish to be a warrior in The Hunger Games,
or by phone. Engage and ignite your while learning how to organize and internal conflict has stoked the bonfires
audience with storytelling techniques that deliver interesting and relevant content of creative expression. What are your own
work and build rapport while commanding to your audience. Polish your articulation internal conflicts? How might complicated
presence! Learn how to think fast on neutralize local accent/dialect, and and conflicting feelings inform your own
your feet through improvisation and work on breathing techniques. Develop writing? In this two-hour workshop, we
role-playing, manage your physical storytelling techniques that work and will examine examples of internal conflict
and vocal message by incorporating engage your audience! Come dressed in in literature. This examination will form
breathing and speech technique and comfortable clothing, bring a notebook the basis for exercises in which you will
have fun discovering new approaches and water. No prior speaking experience investigate your own internal conflicts or
to communicating in your work. Come necessary! those of your subjects and use them to
dressed in comfortable clothing, bring a HPSC, 1 Wednesday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets create short scenes or stanzas.
notebook and water. No prior experience May 6, Lexington High School, Room 225, WCRE, 1 Friday, 6:00-8:00 pm. Meets June
necessary! $25/Seniors $20. 5, Lexington High School, Room 148, $30.
HASB, Wednesday, 7:30-8:30 pm. Meets
May 13, Lexington High School, Room NEW The Art of Making Picture The Way of Haiku
221, $25/Seniors $20. Books for New & Returning Instructor: Brad Bennett
Students wetlands trail
Instructor: Marit Menzin the twists and turns
Experience the art of creating children’s of a blackbird's call
books first-hand. Participants will Join award-winning haiku poet Brad
experiment character development, make Bennett for a two-part writing workshop
a storyboard, and a model of the story on haiku, the most popular poetry form in
they are working on. We will then review the world! Haiku are so much more than
the formula for structuring a picture book: counting syllables. These small poems
introduction, story development, and the help us celebrate the extraordinary in the
story's climax and resolution in relation ordinary and connect us more deeply to
to its illustrations. We will also examine the natural world. After learning about
page layout, design and illustration style, the history and technique of haiku and
as well as different kinds of art media used reading some spring examples, we will
in picture books. Participants will draw take inspirational walks outside and try
in class while discussing and learning the our hands at haiku writing prompts. We'll
above. Assignments will be given. also save time to share our poems in
Guitar Rock Band Sessions with Robert Butler, p. 9. a supportive atmosphere. Everyone is
WWCB, 5 Fridays, 11:00am-1:00 pm.
Begins May 8, Lexington Community welcome!
Education Small Conference Room, 146 HHAI, 2 Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins
TEA: THE ELIXIR OF THE EAST
Maple Street, access by 328 Lowell Street, April 30, Lexington High School, Room
p. 25 $135/Seniors $110. 225, $45/Seniors $35.
10 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043Memoir Writing Poetry Writing Workshop Phrasing and Grammar
Instructor: Tom Daley Instructor: Tom Daley for Writers
Memory is not an instrument for exploring Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is Instructor: John Chamberlain
the past but its theatre. — Walter the skeleton architecture of our lives. It Learn about how the English language
Benjamin lays the foundation for a future of change, has a marvelous capacity for phrasing as
Whether you intend to share your written a bridge across our fears of what has we see examples and express ourselves.
remembrances with family and friends never been before. – Audre Lourde We will study seven phrase patterns
or a broader audience, you will find this Poetry writing, largely, is a solitary (preposition, verb, past and present
a collegial and supportive workshop in endeavor. This workshop will provide the participle, gerund, infinitive, appositive,
which optional weekly exercises will help opportunity for poets, both beginning absolute or zoom, and four important
you to transform the rich material of your and practiced, to share their work with sentence patterns involving clauses.
life into unique works of art, including other poets in a collegial and supportive Sentence combining will be used to
memoir pieces, personal essays and even environment. We will concentrate on show how writers dynamically arrange
the beginning of a book-length memoir. All sharpening the impact of your poems ideas in greater complexity on the fly.
work will be written outside of the workshop through careful consideration of their We will also get to know the “questions
and brought for a critique by other strengths and their limitations. Optional answered” approach to grammar, which
participants and the instructor, during which take-home writing exercises will give you reveals how modifiers answer a number of
time techniques for better writing will be the opportunity to explore the myriad basic questions as writers elaborate basic
explored. Bring nine copies of something forms poetry can take. Bring 10 copies of statements. You will gain confidence in
you have written of a memoir nature—a a recent poem (no more than two pages staring down any sentence grammatically.
journal entry, a paragraph describing a long) to the first session. WP&G, 5 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:15 pm.
relationship, a letter recounting some WPWW, 8 Wednesdays, 6:15-8:15 pm. Begins April 29, Lexington High School,
memorable incident in your life—to the Begins April 15, Lexington High School, Room 224, $75/Seniors $55.
first meeting of the workshop. The piece Room 148, $195/Seniors $150.
should be 750 words or less.
WMEM, 8 Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm. Daytime Memoir Writing WRITING CLASSES FOR
CHILDREN AND TEENS
Begins April 15, Lexington High School, Instructor: Tom Daley p. 21
Room 148, $195/Seniors $150. Memory is not an instrument for
exploring the past but its theatre.
Short Form Poetry — Walter Benjamin NEW Writing About Nature
Instructor:Tracy Marks Whether you intend to share your written Instructor: Tracy Marks
Cinquains, Clerihews, Landays! Whether remembrances with family and friends Whether you write nonfiction, fiction or
you have never written a poem or you are or a broader audience, you will find this poetry, if you are a lover of nature, you can
an experienced poet, you can easily express a collegial and supportive workshop in benefit from reading accomplished nature
yourself creatively by writing traditional which optional weekly exercises will help writers, and learning many approaches
short-form poetry of 2-6 lines. In this course you to transform the rich material of your to inspiring nature writing. We’ll develop
you will learn about and write in eight life into unique works of art, including our descriptive ability, consider scientific,
different forms from all over the world, many memoir pieces, personal essays and even environmental, philosophical, spiritual,
based on counting syllables, and most non- the beginning of a book-length memoir. romantic, feminist and travel-oriented
rhyming. Have fun discovering your talent All work will be written outside of the perspectives, and do personalized writing
for writing in such forms as haikus, tankas, workshop and brought for a critique by assignments. During one of our sessions,
tanagas, cinquains, shadormas, humorous other participants and the instructor, we’ll also enjoy a writing-oriented field
clerihews, and landays, the oral poetic during which time techniques for better trip amidst the profusion of spring
form of Afghan women. writing will be explored. Bring seven blossoms. Recommended: John Murray’s
WSTU, 4 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:45 pm. Begins copies of something you have written classic, Writing About Nature, and Clare
April 7, Lexington High School Room 222, of a memoir nature—a journal entry, a Walker Leslie’s guided Nature Journal.
$85/Seniors $65. paragraph describing a relationship, One of our evening sessions will be a
a letter recounting some memorable writing about nature field trip.
incident in your life—to the first meeting WESS, 4 Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins
of the workshop. The piece should be 750 May 18, Lexington High School, Room
LCE IS ALWAYS LOOKING
FOR EXCELLENT TEACHERS words or less. 222, $75/Seniors $65.
OF INTERESTING TOPICS W2MEM, 8 Fridays,12:15-1:45 pm. Begins
To propose a class, visit: April 17, LCE Conference Room, Access
https://lexingtoncommunityed.org/ by 328 Lowell Street, and enter through WRITING WILD:
the blue side door of the Old Harrington Women Who Shaped the Way We
looking-for-excellent-teachers/ Read the Natural World, p. 3
school. $165/Seniors $125.
Lexington Community Education | Spring 2020 11Fine Arts, Fabric &
Graphic Arts
In his book “The Art Spirit” American
painter Robert Henri writes, “To
apprehend beauty is to work for it.” LCE
invites you to work, apprehend, enjoy and
ultimately add to the beauty of the world
through our many art offerings.
Fundamentals of Drawing
Instructor: Susan Dahl
It’s not necessary to travel to exotic places
or pick an unusual subject to create art
that is fresh and new. Through overcoming An example of the art of instructor Son-Mey Chiu.
the visual prejudices we have developed
that make every day things seem invisible, Basic Drawing students: approximately $57 payable to
exciting art can be created almost Instructor: Elena Belkova the instructor at the first class.)
anywhere, and inspired by almost any We will start with a discussion of the ACBP, 4 Mondays, 1:00-3:00 pm. Begins
subject. In this drawing class for beginning elements of design including line, shape, May 4, Lexington Community Education
and intermediate students, we will form, color, texture, value and proportion. Large Conference Room, 146 Maple
emphasize observation and description of We will focus on perspective and how to Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, $125/
items that are present in our own homes create the illusion of space and objects on Seniors $95.
and our neighborhood. We will consider paper. Each lesson starts with a quick 10 Watercolor
issues including form and line, shading to 15 minutes of sketching the objects we Instructor: Ivan Orlinsky
and shadows, shape and proportion, see around us. We will work on skills to
and composition and perspective. This class is for both beginners and
have you drawing with more confidence artists who have some experience with
Students will receive individual attention and will continue to investigate different
in a relaxed and friendly setting. A $7 watercolor. We will begin with an overview
drawing techniques and topics. You of the history of watercolor as a medium,
setup fee payable to the instructor at the will practice in class and receive ideas
first class. Supply list: 1 tablet drawing successful watercolor painters from the
for continued practice between classes. past and present and getting acquainted
paper, about 8.5 inch x 11 inch; pencils of Please bring the following materials to
assorted hardness (between hb and 6b); 1 with the materials and supplies we will
class: an 18” x 24” Drawing Pad of White be using. Our first exercise will be laying
pencil sharpener, and an eraser. paper (not newsprint), Pencil HB, Willow a flat wash. In subsequent classes we
AFOD, 8 Thursdays, 12:15-2:15 pm. Charcoal sticks, and a kneaded eraser. will work on different techniques such
Begins April 16, Lexington Community A materials fee of $10 is payable to the as wet on wet, value studies, layering,
Education Large Conference Room, 146 instructor at the first class. mixing colors, what colors to include
Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, ADRAW, 6 Mondays, 5:00-8:00pm. on your palate, and a brief overview of
$165/Seniors $125. Begins April 6, Lexington High School, the qualities of water color paint such
Room 166, $185/Seniors $140. as transparent, semi -transparent and
Oil Pastel Studio
opaque. There will be a 20 minute warm
Instructor: Alma Bella Solis NEWAquatic Scenes with Chinese up exercise at the beginning of each class.
Using oil pastels, you will produce your Brush and Colors Please bring the following materials to
own compositions, interpreting subjects Instructor: Son-Mey Chiu the first class: Paints: Cadmium yellow
ranging from still life to human figures. During this spring season students are deep; Lemon yellow; Cobalt blue; French
Drawing methods used in this course are invited to explore painting aquatic flora Ultramarine blue; Cerulean blue; Prussian
outline, contour then the creative strokes and fauna. A variety of subject matters blue; Cadmium red; Vermillion; Burnt
using the oil pastel sticks in achieving will be introduced to cater to students of Sienna; Yellow Ochre and Payne’s grey.
perspective, proportion, contrast, different levels of experience with Chinese Brushes: Bring what brushes you have; I
depth and dimension of the subjects ink and colors. Students will learn painting recommend #8 #10 round and a one inch
chosen. Oil pastels are waxy and thick, water birds such as the kingfisher and flat. Paper: Good quality watercolor pad;
the pigment being mixed with non- egret. Aquatic plants such as the water lily 12” x16”. Palette: White china plate or
drying oil thus the thicker pad is used and lotus will be introduced. Students will a butchers tray. Other supplies: Two or
e.g. Canson,Strathmore. Please see the also be given the opportunity to paint the three jars for holding water, Rags, paper
Lexington Community Education website Chinese goldfish and koi. Beginning and towel, an HB pencil, kneaded eraser.
for supply list. returning students are welcome. Please Please bring a photo of your choice as a
ACHR, 6 Mondays, 5:30-7:30 pm. Begins bring a piece of felt to protect the table reference to paint.
April 13, Lexington High School, Room and your painting, a palette for watercolor, AWATE, 4 Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins
148, $135/Seniors $105. and a three-segment water container or April 6, Lexington High School, Room 212,
three cups. (Painting supplies for new $90/Seniors $70.
12 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043Acrylic Painting – Evening round size 2 and 3 flats in size range of 2, Felt Making
Instructor: Linda Balek 4, 6), 5 by 7 inches (or larger) color photos Instructor: Elizabeth Stubbs
of landscapes.
Studio acrylic painting classes are the Felt-making is an ancient art found in
ideal art class for those who want to ADAC, 8 Thursdays, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm. many cultures. Although its origins were
relax, explore painting, and meet fellow Begins April 16, Lexington Community more practical than artistic, the old
artists in the community. This class Education Large Conference Room, 146 techniques have evolved and new ones
will address mixing, composition, and Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, have been invented, often straddling the
painting techniques while encouraging $175/Seniors $130. line between art and craft. Students will
your unique painting style through learn basic wet and needle techniques
individual instruction. Please bring to Art & Mindfulness through weekly projects. Some work may
class a photo of what you would like to Instructor: Sue Dahl occasionally need to be prepared or
paint for your unique artwork. In every Mindfulness means “paying attention on completed at home. Additionally, we will
class, painting instruction is given on a purpose, in a particular way.” It has been look at the work of a few contemporary
one to one learning approach and will shown to increase focus, spark creativity, felt artists. A materials fee of $30 is
cater to each student‘s personal needs and promote a sense of calm. Each week, payable to the instructor at the first class.
and interests. Because we also learn the class will put Mindfulness into practice AFELT, 6 Wednesdays, 1:45-3:45 pm.
from others' work, we will have a group using a variety of art techniques such Begins April 15, Lexington Community
painting critique at the end of each class. as drawing, painting, printmaking, and Education Large Conference Room, 146
While painting on canvas, you will explore collage. All levels of artistic experience are Maple Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street,
and experiment with your personal welcome, as well as those who are curious $135/Seniors $105.
artistic style. Recommended material about mindfulness and meditation.
list is canvas, easel, container for water, All materials will be provided by the NEW Origami for Adults
acrylic paint (Basic colors: white, cadmium instructor; a fee of $10 is payable at the Instructor: Linda Perry
yellow medium, cadmium red medium, first class meeting.
This haiku called Origami says it all:
ultramarine blue) mixing palette, and artist AMMA, 8 Mondays, 10:00 am-12:00 noon. No cutting, no glue,
brushes. Begins April 6, Lexington Community Mostly one sheet of paper,
AACR, 5 Wednesdays, 6:00-8:30 pm. Education Conference Room, 146 Maple Wonderful results.
Begins April 15, Lexington High School, Street, Access by 328 Lowell Street, $165/
We will start with some basic folds,
Room 210, $120/Seniors $100. Seniors $125.
moving onto lips that kiss and two links
made from one piece of paper. Modular
Introduction to Acrylic Painting – Quilting and Beyond
origami and more complex folds will be
Daytime Instructor: Cathy Berry introduced as time allows. Along the way
Instructor: Donna Calleja Is there a quilt you would like to make? you will see the amazing ways origami is
Learn the basics of working with acrylic Do you have a project that you would used in construction, medicine and even
paints while creating original artwork. like to finish? Have you ever seen a quilt outer-space. A materials fee of $6 is
For our first project we will learn basic that just strikes your fancy but you think payable to the instructor at the first class.
techniques such as color mixing, it would be too difficult? Come join our AORI, 4 Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins
composition, under painting and paint class and learn the basics and beyond April 30, Lexington High School, Room
application techniques while creating a with all the company of fellow quilting 214, $85/Seniors $65.
landscape painting from a photograph. and appliqué enthusiasts which will keep
How to work in different painting styles you going through the time consuming Graphic Design
and subjects will be explored while but creative and rewarding process of
Instructor: Damian Barneschi
students follow their personal interests starting, making and finishing your own
in their second painting project. The special quilt. Optional field trips to quilt Graphic Design provides an introduction
class will combine teacher demonstration and fabric shops will be discussed in class. to the fundamental principles of
with work time devoted to individual Please see the updated supply list on the typography, color theory, and layout as
instruction. How to prepare canvas and LCE website. well as the theories behind effective visual
paper for painting and using acrylic in messaging. Through the use of design
AQ&M, 6 Mondays, 6:30-9:00 pm. Begins
mixed media work will also be covered. software including Adobe Photoshop and
April 13 and meets May 4, May 11, May
Supply List for class - canvas or canvas Illustrator, students will demonstrate an
18, June 1 and June 8, Lexington High
board (size range from 8 by 10 to 12 by 16 understanding of industry standards, while
School, Room 143, $140/Seniors $100.
inches), Acrylic paint in tubes (Basic colors producing personal work that expresses
– Titanium White, Yellow Hansa, Naphthol their individual and creative voice. To see
Red, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Sienna) or Damian Barneschi’s work, please visit his
any set of yellow, blue, red, white and ART CLASSES FOR KIDS Instagram feed @dbarneschi
brown acrylic paints, disposable palette p. 21 AGRA, 6 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm.
paper, and acrylic artist brushes (small Begins April 15, Lexington High School,
Room 215, $175/Seniors $135.
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