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Lexington
C O M M U N I T Y E D U C AT I O N
WINTER
2023
The Art Object:
Kasamatsu Shirō, Japanese, 1898–1991
Winter Sky (Fuyu no sora)
Japanese, Shōwa era, 1965 (Shōwa 40)
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Vertical ōban; 38.8 × 28.3 cm
(15 1/4 × 11 1/8 in.)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of the Anne Gordon Keidel Trust of
June 2016 2016.1382
Photograph © December, 2022, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston.
N o matter how elaborate or
decorative the winter holiday
wrapping, the contents of certain gift
LCE Online
Complete course descriptions, class
status, and registration information
Table of Contents
boxes are happily known before opening. can be found online at Around Town...................................7
The size and shape of a wrapped and www.lexingtoncommunityed.org
ribboned package matches the outline Business and Career.................... 27
of an asked for item, and the anticipation Lexington Community Education
that comes upon spying the unopened Director: Craig Hall Courses for Children.................... 22
present is satisfying in itself. What we Program Coordinator: Julian Calleja
wanted was acknowledged and acted Program Coordinator: Shirley Choy Computers.................................... 19
on. The gift represents the function Registrar: Amy Sullivan Cooking........................................ 24
of itself (as the instrument sounds, or Accounts Payable: Deniele Pozz
jewelry shines) and serves as a reminder
146 Maple Street ELL/Languages............................. 16
that even in the harsh winter there is
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
warmth, kindness, and abundance. As in Exercise and Dance..................... 32
(Access office via 328 Lowell Street)
fabled winter holidays of the past, with
gifts thoughtfully wrapped, this course
Telephone 781.862.8043 Fine Arts, Fabric & Graphic Arts.... 14
Fax 781.863.5829
catalog comes with many offerings and
LCE@lexingtonma.org Home, Hobbies & Travel............. 25
opportunities for mind, body, and spirit. I
hope that you find some things asked for, www.lexingtoncommunityed.org Humanities ......................................8
some things needed, some serious, others facebook.com/lexingtoncommunityed
less so, and some surprises, too. Recently LCE Presents....................................3
our instructor Tracy Marks reminded me
Lexington Public Schools
that in his Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Superintendent of Schools: Mind and Body............................. 29
Maria Rilke writes, “And the point is, to Dr. Julie Hackett
LEXINGTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Music Appreciation...................... 10
live everything. Live the questions now.”
In the pages that follow may you find as Chair: Sara Cuthbertson Music Performance /
Vice-Chair: Deepika Sawhney
many questions as you do answers. The Theater Arts............................... 12
questions are often more exciting, and Larry Freeman
the answers inevitably lead to more good Eileen Jay Test Preparation/
questions. Kathleen Lenihan College Planning....................... 23
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES
We thank you for your participation and
support, and wish you all the best in the
Grace Ou, Aditi Swamy Writing.......................................... 12
year ahead! About Lexington Instructor Biographies...........Online
Community Education
— Craig Hall, Director
LCE is a self-sustaining, integral part of Registration Information.............. 35
Face Masks & In-Person the Lexington Public School system that is
committed to promoting lifelong learning. Directions...................................... 35
Unless requested to be worn by a specific
LCE instructor in an in-person class setting, Our programs are open to all regardless Cancellation and
of residency and are appropriate for
face masks are now optional. Lexington Refund Policy............................. 35
Public Schools will follow suit and no participants 16 years of age and over.
longer require masks. Our Classes for Children are for specific
ages. LCE provides an extensive summer
children’s program called Lexplorations
which offers classes for creative and Catalog Design: Pehlke Design
academic enrichment.
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Lexington Community Education presents
Soirées Musicales: A Multimedia Capturing Genius:
Piano Duo Concert & Exploration Poets, Jazz and Film
of French Fine Art WITH FILMMAKER HENRY FERRINI & JAZZ HISTORIAN/
MUSICIAN LEWIS PORTER, PH.D.
WITH LEONA CHEUNG & TANYA BLAICH AND
Friday, March 3, 2023 • 7:30-9:00 pm • Lexington Depot, 13
COMMENTARY BY NANCY SCOTT
Depot Square, Lexington, MA • $15 • SAMA
Friday, February 24, 2023 • 7:30 pm • Follen Church Society, 755
Over the last 25 years Gloucester
Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA • $20 • SPDF
based independent filmmaker
French piano duets in the 19th Century contributed greatly to Henry Ferrini’s work has focused
the genre of “piano four hands” (à quatre mains), which involves on what Jack Kerouac called “the
two pianists playing on the same piano simultaneously. Leading great continent of New England.”
composers Claude Debussy and Cécile Chaminade wrote a His interest in cultural geography
stunning body of work in this genre. Both pianists themselves, has taken him to working-class
Debussy was representative of French Impressionist music in the communities throughout the
late 19th Century, and Chaminade was the first woman composer industrial Northeast, unearthing
to win the Légion d’Honneur, the highest French order of merit. material most would overlook.
In this Soirées Musicales program, pianists Leona Cheung and Ferrini’s films do not follow the
Tanya Blaich will be presenting a diverse set of French four-hand conventional patterns of a biography
Piano Miniatures by Claude Debussy and Cécile Chaminade. documentary. He employs a lyrical, impressionist approach that
Though short in duration, some of these pieces fully employ allows for a greater exploration of the subject’s philosophies,
the virtuosity of two pianists and weave sonic worlds that are thoughts, and ideas. Ferrini calls his work “film poems.”
complete, lush, and ethereal. Art expert Nancy Scott will offer
Lewis Porter is the author of “Playback with Lewis
commentary on 19th Century French art that are contemporary
Porter,” a jazz newsletter on Substack, as well as two
to these duets and provide insights on the mutual influence
acclaimed books on John Coltrane and numerous
between the music and the art works.
other publications. He’s a longtime jazz professor with
Tanya Blaich is a pianist and teacher with particular a PhD in musicology from Brandeis, and taught at
sensitivity for and expertise in the song and Tufts, Rutgers, and other schools and will be at NEC this spring.
collaborative piano repertoire. A faculty member As a pianist, he has appeared on 35 albums with Terri Lyne
of New England Conservatory’s collaborative piano Carrington, John Patitucci, Tia Fuller, Dave Liebman, and many
and voice departments since 2006, Blaich is co- others, and performed with many jazz “stars” across the USA and
coordinator of NEC’s Liederabend Series. Blaich has been Europe and here in Lexington.
praised for her “unfailingly expressive and finely judged”
This evening will include discussion between Porter and Ferrini
playing (The Guardian) and her “distinct and refined palette and
on topics of jazz, poetry, film and creativity with clips from Ferrini
textures” and “unwaveringly attentive” ensemble (Opera Today).
films including Lowell Blues (about Jack Kerouac), Polis is This-
She has performed in concert venues and festivals throughout
Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place, and Ferrini’s current
the United States, Europe, and Russia.
project called President of Beauty: The Life and Times of Lester
Leona Cheung is a Boston-based collaborative Young.
pianist. Cheung is especially known for her musical
leadership and responsiveness. Her collaborators
include conductors and singers from the GRAMMY®
nominated Seraphic Fire, Handel and Haydn Society,
and Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Cheung’s deep devotion to
the art song repertoire has brought her to perform in festivals
in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Austria.
She obtained her Master of Music and Graduate Diploma in
Collaborative Piano from New England Conservatory.
The views of our presenters and instructors do not necessarily
Nancy Scott is Professor Emerita of Fine Arts, represent the views of Lexington Community Education, the
Art History at Brandeis University. Her expertise is Lexington Public Schools and/or its employees.
Modernism in Europe and America and painting and
sculpture from the French Revolution to the mid-20th
century including artists from David and Delacroix to
Manet, Monet, Renoir and then the post-impressionists. Scott LCE is proud to partner with
is affiliated with the Master of Arts Program in Comparative Maxima Book Center in Lexington.
Humanities, the Interdepartmental Program in European Cultural www.maximacenter.com
Studies, and the Dept of Romance Studies, School of Arts and
Sciences, Brandeis University.
Lexington Community Education | Winter 2023 3
Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Discovering Marcel Proust’s novel,
Astronomy, Religion and Art in In Search of Lost Time, through
Western Culture the Senses
WITH MICHAEL MENDILLO WITH HOLLIE HARDER
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 • 7:00-8:30 pm • Lexington Depot, 13 Tuesday, February 28, 2023 • 7:00-8:30 pm • Lexington Depot,
Depot Square • $15 • SSSS 13 Depot Square • $15 • SISN
Saints and Sinners in the Sky—a new Why is Proust often called the
book by Boston University Professor of greatest French writer, comparable
Astronomy Michael Mendillo—takes to England’s Shakespeare, Spain’s
readers deep into the annals of history, Cervantes or Argentina’s Borges?
showing how visual depictions of the How can Proust’s seven-tome novel,
heavens evolved in tandem with science, which, in places, explores the seamy
art and religion throughout much of undersides of human existence,
Western culture. Saints and Sinners in have the reputation of being a witty,
the Sky is written for the layperson. It is enchanting, and philosophical book
a lively and engaging narrative, one that that lends readers a distinctive
will make readers look up at the sky in “Proustian lens” through which
an entirely new way, seeing things that to see life in fundamentally new
intrigued scientists, religious leaders, artists and everyday people and innovative ways? In this discussion, we will look together at
for thousands of years. Proust’s work by examining passages where sensory descriptions
Michael Mendillo was born and raised in Providence, illustrate and animate major themes in the novel and spark
Rhode Island. He did his undergraduate work at exemplary Proustian experiences of the beauty, depth, and
Providence College (Bachelor of Science in Physics, complexity of everyday life. While unable to capture the entire
1966) and his graduate studies at Boston University, range of this magnum opus, this short introduction will enable
receiving his Ph.D. in physics and astronomy in 1971, readers to understand the essential modernity of this 100-year-
with Michael D. Papagiannis as his dissertation advisor. After old book, the fundamental elements of the human condition that
two years as a National Academy of Science/National Research it showcases, and the pertinence that the work still has today.
Council postdoctoral research associate at the Air Force Hollie Harder is Professor of French and
Cambridge Research Laboratory, he joined the Boston University Francophone Studies at Brandeis University, where
faculty in 1973. Professor Mendillo teaches graduate courses she teaches all levels of French literature, language
in space physics; at the undergraduate level he specializes in and culture. She has published on Émile Zola in
courses for non-science majors. He currently teaches sections of Nineteenth-Century French Studies (“The Woman
the physical science course in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Beneath: The femme de marbre in Zola’s La Faute de l’abbé
Core Curriculum. Mouret”) and on Marcel Proust in Modern Language Studies
(“Proust’s Novel Confections: Françoise’s Cooking and Marcel’s
Book”), in The Cambridge Companion to Proust (“Proust’s
Human Comedy”)and in French Forum (“On the Beach and in
the Boudoir: Albertine as an Amazon Figure in Marcel Proust’s In
Search of Lost Time). She leads the Proust Reading Group and
the Proust Selected Studies Group at the Boston Athenaeum and
she teaches courses on Proust at the Brandeis Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute (BOLLI).
Regardless of residency, Lexington Community Education
online classes, lessons, and events are Open to All.
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The Long-Lasting Power of Past Playing in the Shadow of
Lives, Passions, and Punk Rock Roberto Clemente: Afro-Latinos
WITH NANCY BARILE and America’s Game
Thursday, February 16, 2023 • 7:00-8:30 pm • Zoom • $15 • SNHC
WITH ADRIAN BURGOS, JR.
Born and raised in a suburb of
Thursday, March 2, 2023 • 7:00-8:00 pm • Zoom • $15 • SBRC
Philadelphia, Nancy Barile, an 8th
generation Benjamin Franklin grandchild, Roberto Clemente was a Puerto
went from disenchanted Catholic Rican born baseball player who
schoolgirl and glam maniac to instigator played 18 seasons in the Major
in Philly’s 1980’s gritty and burgeoning Leagues for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
punk scene. Nancy discovered freedom He was one of the most influential
at a time when punk music was new and people in the incorporation of Latin
dangerous. She moved to Center City American players breaking through
in 1979, and her stories of Philadelphia the color barrier and joining the
in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s will bring Major Leagues. Clemente was not
back memories for those who were there, only a leader on the field, but he
and open a door to an exciting and creative era for those who also spent a lot of his time doing
weren’t. Working at a staid law firm in the PSFS building by day, charity work in Latin America
and experiencing the vibrant but sometimes dangerous Philly and the Caribbean where he would bring food and baseball
music scene by night, Nancy found her place behind the boards equipment to those in need. Unfortunately, Clemente died in a
and right in the front row as musical artists from David Bowie, plane crash on one of his philanthropic missions in 1972 at the
Queen, and Patti Smith to Minor Threat, Bad Brains, and Dead age of 38. The example he set both on and off the field have
Kennedys, broke down walls and made history. She survived continued over the years to have a lasting impact on Afro-Latino
punk riots and urban decay, ran the streets of Philadelphia with a players.
crew of like-minded rebels, and ultimately found true love, as she Adrian Burgos, Jr. is a History Professor at the
fought for fairness, became empowered, embraced the do-it- University of Illinois specializing in US Latino history,
yourself work ethic, and found her purpose. Nancy will describe sports history, urban history, and African American
how she now draws from her punk rock experiences to help fuel history. Many of his publications focus on the
her career as a National Board Certified, award-winning high incorporation of Spanish-speaking baseball players
school English Language Arts teacher in a Boston-area school. into the Major Leagues throughout history. His first book, Playing
Nancy Barile is a National Board America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, analyzes
the incorporation of players from the Spanish-speaking Americas
PHOTO: RIKKI ERCOLI
Certified, award-winning high school
English Language Arts teacher, an Adjunct into U.S. professional baseball to illuminate the working of
Professor, writer, and author of I’m Not baseball’s color line. His second book Cuban Star: How One
Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-and-All Negro League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball, takes
Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion available at bazillionpoints.com. interest in race and baseball integration further as it explores
She lives outside Boston with her husband Al Barile and Flippy what it means to be black and brown in the United States
the Beagle. through Alejandro “Alex” Pompez’s life story, an Afro-Cuban-
American who went from a Negro League team owner and
Harlem numbers king to a Major League scout that opened the
Dominican talent pipeline.
Lexington Community Education | Winter 2023 5
STEPHEN COLLINS AND POORNIMA KIRBY PRESENT
I Spill My Bright Incalculable Soul:
A Christmas Carol A Participatory Event
BY CHARLES DICKENS
HOSTED BY TRACY MARKS
Saturday, December 17, 2022 • 3:00-4:30 pm • Follen Church
Society, 755 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA • $15 • SACC Wednesday, February 8, 2023 • 7:00-9:00 pm • Zoom • $10 • SBIS
“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of In this interactive event on zoom,
all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that you will have the opportunity to read
they teach.” — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol or recite a poem or literary excerpt
which is deeply meaningful to you. In a
Join actors Stephen
supportive environment, you may share
Collins and
why the piece you have chosen speaks
Poornima Kirby for
to you, and why it might, hopefully,
a performance of
also inspire others. Each participant will
Dickens’s A Christmas
have 2-5 minutes, depending upon the
Carol adapted for
number of attendees. Please register at
two performers by
least 24 hours in advance. Final details
Poornima Kirby.
will be emailed to registrants the night
Stephen will portray
beforehand. Limited to 40.
both the young and
older Scrooge. Poornima will portray the ghosts as well as Bob Tracy Marks has authored four books in three
Cratchit and other characters. Join us for a dramatic retelling editions, translated into nine languages, and has
(including carols and dance) that resonates with the holiday been teaching literature, creative writing and
season and displays the regenerative power of the human spirit. computer graphics courses to adults for 39 years. She
is also a licensed psychotherapist, published poet,
Stephen J. Collins grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts and
professional photographer and active seller on both eBay and
received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. He teaches
Amazon.
seminars on Whitman, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost,
and contemporary poetry at locations throughout the Boston
area and also works as a professionally licensed tour guide.
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The
Poornima Kirby has taught acting and theater arts at the Nirmal
Arts Academy in Canajoharie, NY, as well as coaching privately Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
in acting techniques, Shakespeare, and movement. She studied WITH MARGALIT FOX
at Shakespeare and Co. and the London Academy of Music and Thursday, March 9, 2023 • 7:00-8:30 pm • Zoom • $15 • SROL
Dramatic Arts, and received her B.A. in Drama, with honors, from
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an
Vassar College.
Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories
in the history of language, masterfully blending
history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly
wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist
Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age
civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece’s
Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe’s
earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the
inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written,
would remain a mystery. Join award-winning New York Times
journalist Margalit Fox as she explores this riveting real-life
GIVE THE GIFT OF LEARNING! intellectual detective story that travels from the Bronze Age
Aegean—the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen—to
Whether it be for a specific class or event, or a general
the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English
certificate for a program of the recipient’s choice, the
archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the
experience of learning is always a smart gift. LCE Gift decipherers including Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who
certificates do not expire and can be applied to any and deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death
all of our offerings, year round. Call 781-862-8043, or that may have been a direct consequence of the decipherment;
email lce@lexingtonma.org for more information. and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose
painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.
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Around Town
What’s Your Story? Memoir CARY LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS:
Writing for Everyone
The Art of Conversation with Meghna Chakrabarti
WITH MEGAN ST. MARIE, PRESIDENT OF MODERN
Saturday, March 18, 2023, 8:00 PM at Cary Memorial Hall
MEMOIRS, INC.
Thursday, January 26, 2023 • 7:00-8:30 pm • Zoom • $15 • SWYS Safeguarding the Mental and Behavioral Health
What will be lost when we’re of a City with Dr. Kevin Simon, Chief Behavioral
no longer here to tell our Health Officer, City of Boston
stories? Incidental yet important
Saturday, April 22, 2023, 8:00 PM at Cary Memorial Hall
information: insights, personalities,
jokes, favorite recipes, genealogies. Cary Lectures are free to all and tickets are not required.
On a more subtle level, gone will While normally able to accommodate all who wish to attend,
be the living connection between in the very rare case where there may not be sufficient seats,
past, future, and present. Creating preference will be given to Lexington residents. Come early
a memoir is an opportunity to for the best seat!
engage in a dynamic process of
For more information visit: https://carylectureseries.org/
recollection and integration, one
that can deepen and expand
our own lives and those of generations to come. Memoirs
underscore connection and the singularly human tradition NEW Voices on the Green at First Parish
of telling our stories to our closest group. The memoirist can Founded in 2016 as a community-building event, Voices on the
present his or her interior as well as exterior life, with details that Green is a series of live music, storytelling and speaking events
allow the reader to dive in. Whether or not it is accompanied by which are centered around a common theme. Three times per
e-books or other technology-dependent media, the printed and year musicians, storytellers and presenters come together to
bound memoir is an intimate encounter. And it’s easily archival, share their diverse perspectives and explore meanings at the
personally insightful, and important as a document of history intersection of a common theme. Voices on the Green has proven
and heart. In addition to reflecting on the art and importance to be a beloved community event with audiences typically at 200
of memoir with examples from her company’s archive, Modern or more. Programs begin at 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30) at First
Memoirs President Megan St. Marie will guide participants Parish in Lexington, 7 Harrington Road on the Battle Green.
through a series of writing prompts that will invite them to draw Upcoming shows: February 5, 2023 and May 5, 2023. For more
on their own memories and family histories. The goal will be to on themes and updated information visit voicesonthegreen.org
demonstrate how engaging in memoir writing and life-review
work can be a means of fostering self-discovery and deepening
familial connections. Participants will be encouraged, but not
required, to share their work as time permits.
Megan St. Marie is president and co-owner of Modern
Memoirs, Inc., a full-service publishing company in Amherst, MA.
She earned her MA in Children’s Literature at Simmons University,
where she held adjunct and contract faculty appointments from
2003 to 2020. A sabbatical devoted to writing projects inspired
by her Franco American and Irish heritage planted the seeds for
Megan’s move to Modern Memoirs in 2019, when she and her
husband, Sean St. Marie, purchased the company from founder,
Kitty Axelson-Berry. Under the name Megan Dowd Lambert,
Megan continues to work as an author, reviewer, and consultant
in the field of children’s literature, where her work is rooted in
a passion for helping others share and respond to stories. This LexMedia Production Classes, this page.
experience translates into Megan’s commitment to help Modern
Memoirs clients create the beautiful books they envision, Media Production Classes at LexMedia
whether they are memoirs and family histories published under
All classes at LexMedia are free and available to people who
the main company name, or other sorts of books (poetry, essays,
live, work or attend school in Lexington. For more information
microhistories, etc.) published under the imprint, White Poppy
and to sign up for a class go to https://www.lexmedia.org/
Press.
events-classes/. LexMedia is a membership-based non-profit
community access media center serving the town of Lexington,
. Massachusetts.
Lexington Community Education | Winter 2023 7
Humanities
Each term our humanities section how each shapes our enjoyment and
offers classes that aim to heighten our understanding. Handouts will be provided.
understanding of the human experience HRIT, 1 Thursday, 7:00-8:30 pm. Meets
and honor the idea and ideals of a liberal February 2, Hybrid: LCE Classroom or
arts education. Zoom, $25.
NEW Public Art: Its History— NEW Alfred Hitchcock:
and Many Current Forms and Why Do All Film Directors
Expressions Study His Movies?
Instructor: Paul Angiolillo Instructor: Lewis Porter, Ph.D.
Sculpture and other public art has been Among laypersons, Hitchcock (1899-
making the headlines a lot lately: revered 1980) is probably still the most famous
monuments have been toppled, with director in film history (with the possible
contemporary sculptures replacing them, Paul Angiolillo teaches Public Art: Its History–and exception of Steven Spielberg). But
political statements appear on traditional Many Current Forms and Expressions, this page. among filmmakers he is also probably
billboards and projected onto buildings, the one who has had the most impact on
temporary, environmental-themed art NEW Taking a Greek Odyssey other directors. Why? Largely because
“pops up” in urban plazas and fine new with Homer of the sheer artistry that he brought to
works of traditional commemorative the movies. There is tremendous variety
Instructor: Tracy Marks
sculpture are commissioned. Whatever in his films and Psycho was absolutely
your take on these diverse expressions, Whether or not you read Homer’s Odyssey
atypical, even if it’s the one most people
one thing is clear: they’re playing an in high school, your life experience as an
think of. In fact, he did not make horror
important role in our society. We’ll take adult can help you more meaningfully
or mystery films--rather, he said they
a wide-ranging look at public art-- appreciate its language, story, characters
were “suspense” films, which he defined
monumental, political, environmental, and themes. Most of all, you are likely to
in a very specific way. In this unique
whimsical, “art for art’s sake,” and more. find personal meaning in the adventures
presentation, you will see the same scene
What makes them succeed or not? Where and trials of Odysseus, who faces many
as directed by Hitchock and by another
is the art form headed? Join a casual, temptations and obstacles as he attempts
director, to see what Hitchcock does
lively discussion about public art, its to find his way home and unite with his life
differently. You will experience some of
history and its current role in our culture. partner. This will take a multidimensional
his most striking and influential moments,
approach - learning mythical and historical
HART, 1 Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 pm. March 14, from his early silent films through his last
background, discussing characters and
Zoom, $29. films, which will at the same time give you
story elements, viewing film excerpts,
a chronological overview of his output.
uncovering symbolism, considering the
NEW Falstaff: Shakespeare’s You will enjoy his wit and clarity in filmed
Jungian perspective and relating the
Greatest Comic Character Odyssey to the personal odyssey of our
interviews. And you will learn something
Instructor: Tracy Marks about how Hitchcock participated in
own lives. Students should obtain the
creating a “brand” that is to this day
Although Part 1 and 2 of Henry IV are Fagles, Fitzgerald, or Wilson translation
synonymous with the art of film.
considered histories rather than comedies, and read the first chapter (book) by the
they are arguably Shakespeare’s most first class. HAHF, 1 Sunday, 3:00-5:00 pm. Meets
laugh-aloud plays due to the uproarious February 5, Zoom, $30.
HTGO, 6 Fridays, 12:30-2:30 pm. Begins
humor (and pathos) of Falstaff. In this February 10, Zoom, $145/Seniors $120.
online class series, we will read and
discuss both plays (aided by modern NEW Rainer Maria Rilke in
renditions of the language) and view film Translation
clips from notable performances. Not
Instructor: Barbara Thimm
only will we delight in the character and
wit of Falstaff, but we will also reflect Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry has long
upon his relationship to Prince Hal who been a favorite of English translators.
lives on the edge between hedonism Consequently, readers can choose from
and responsibility. Please obtain No Fear an abundance of different translations for
Shakespeare’s edition of Henry IV part one many of the better-known poems. While
and two by the first class. that can be confusing, it also offers an
opportunity to appreciate the beauty and
HFSG, 4 Mondays, 12:30-2:30 pm. Begins
complexity of the original — even if we
January 23, Zoom, $95/Seniors $80.
don’t know its language. We will jointly
read and appreciate multiple translations
of three posems by Rilke and discuss Michael Koran teaches Blessings to Everyone from
Abraham: the Father of Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam, facing page.
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Slavery, Abolition and the
Underground Railroad in
Massachusetts
Instructor: Gordon Harris
In 1765, Jenny Slew, who had been
enslaved in Ipswich, was the first person
in America to successfully sue for her
freedom. The Massachusetts Supreme
Court abolished slavery a dozen years
later, but under the Federal Fugitive
Slave Act, anyone who helped prevent
the recapture of a runaway slave could
be fined $1000. Tensions arose between
ardent abolitionists and those who would
rather avoid the discussion, dividing
families, churches and communities Ronald Pies, MD teaches How Stoicism Can Help Us Flourish in an Age of Anxiety, this page.
throughout New England. Men’s and
Women’s Anti-Slavery Societies were
formed and fugitive slave seizures in homes. Of the roughly 300 houses left and their ideas have immense relevance
Boston of Shadrach Minkins, Thomas standing that were constructed (in part for our own troubled times. Yet there are
Sims, Joshua Glover and Anthony Burns or in whole) during the first century of many misconceptions about Stoicism,
in 1854 sparked actions by anti-slavery English settlement, 59 are in Ipswich. which is often mistakenly seen as a way
activists known as the Boston Vigilance We go inside several of these houses of suppressing emotion. In this talk, we
Committee. In Ipswich, the Meeting and identify First Period elements based will explore the nature and application of
House Green neighborhood was a hotbed on appearance, layout and architectural Stoic principles, with the aim of providing
of anti-slavery sentiment. A network of features that distinguish them from the practical ways of relieving anxiety and
the Underground Railroad ran north along succeeding Georgian era. We also visit the fostering a flourishing life.
the coast from Boston to Marblehead, Old North Burying Ground, which dates to HHSC, 1 Thursday, 7:30-8:30 pm. Meets
Salem, Beverly and Danvers, splitting the town’s founding in 1634. Tombstones January 19, Zoom, $25.
into three trails, one continuing through in the oldest section feature lunettes with
Ipswich and Newburyport into New simple faces carved by John Hartshorne NEW Blessings to Everyone from
Hampshire. Ipswich town historian Gordon
Harris takes us through the timeline of
and the Leighton family of Essex County, Abraham: the Father of Judaism,
events on the national and local levels
as well as the winged death-heads Christianity, and Islam
carved by Boston’s William Mumford
that culminated in the Civil War and the Instructor: Michael Koran
and the Lampson family. By the mid-18th
Emancipation Proclamation. Century, gravestones of the more wealthy Each week we’ll read aloud and discuss
HHIST, 1 Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 pm. inhabitants featured artistic life-like faces passages from the story of Abraham
Meets January 25, Zoom, $30. with wings and three-dimensional scrolling in the Bible. We’ll discover how we
typical of Boston’s Park family of carvers. may be blessed (and bless) with the
Historic Ipswich: 17th–18th The 1.5 hr presentation is accompanied creative energy that moved Abraham.
Century Houses, Streetscapes by photos of the historic neighborhoods Exploring Abraham’s relationship to his
& Gravestones of Ipswich, digitally remastered from glass sons may teach us how to smile while
plate negatives taken by George Dexter, we’re experiencing the challenges
Instructor: Gordon Harris
Arthur Wesley Dow and Edward Darling in between parents and children. Looking
Ipswich, Massachusetts is known as at Abraham’s relationship to women
America’s best-preserved Puritan town the last half of the 19th Century and early
20th Century. may teach us how love can inspire
and its residents have been the proud creative strategies that help relationships
custodians of its history and structures. HHIP, 1 Thursday, 6:30-8:00 pm. Meets
survive and thrive. We’ll see how
The 1764 Choate Bridge on South Main February 9, Zoom, $30.
we, like Abraham, can transform our
St. is the oldest documented double understanding and experience of divinity
NEW How Stoicism Can Help Us
stone arch bridge in America. Join Ipswich in order to better receive and bestow
town historian Gordon Harris for a virtual Flourish in an Age of Anxiety blessings. And we’ll dream how we, like
tour of the historic neighborhoods of Instructor: Ronald Pies, MD Abraham, can look forward to dying “at a
Meeting House Green, High Street, the In an age of anxiety on so many levels, good ripe age…satisfied.”
East End and the South Green and their how do we find happiness and peace of HBFA, 5 Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00 pm. Begins
well-preserved streetscapes of 17th and mind? The ancient Stoics developed a January 24, Zoom, $140/Seniors $125.
18th century philosophy to answer these very questions
Lexington Community Education | Winter 2023 9
Music Appreciation
NEW Music from Around the Opera and Wine Pairing
World, Part I: China Instructor: Annina Hsieh
Instructor: Jane Wong Are you a fan of opera music? Do you
In this class we will cover the basics of like to drink wine? We have partnered
Western music theory and compare with Violette Wine Cellars to bring you
and contrast it with the musical modes this class to indulge your senses - all from
commonly used in traditional Chinese music the comfort of your own home! Each
and operas. We will also listen to some week we will explore how a type of wine David Collins teaches Four Coposers in the Shadow
current pop music from Chinese speaking compliments a specific opera scene/ of Verdi and a German Romantic Opera, this page.
regions and discuss how the traditional aria and the ways in which wine and
musical modes have been transformed to music combine to elevate each other. How Was That a Hit? Pop Music:
promote and preserve the unique tonal The class will serve as an introduction 1950s–1980s
understanding and effect of traditional to opera and natural wine history. We Instructor: Gregory Leschishin
Chinese music. Whether you are a fan of hope to introduce you to new wine and
This class discusses and illustrates how
the classics, anime, or current Chinese soap new music in a fun way. In addition to the
pop music of the 1950s through the 1980s
operas, you will gain a fresh perspective price of the class, students can purchase
became hits. The charts were determined
on the musical sensibility of China as it has the course wine package (four bottles of
by airplay and sales calculated by
developed over time, and how it relates to wine) directly from Violette Wine Cellars
methods over which only a few people
Western musical style structure. store in Cambridge. The wine package is
had control. Hundreds of songs were
HMWC, 8 Tuesdays, 6:00-7:15 pm. Begins $90. Curbside Pick Ups: Tuesday-Saturday
released by many independent record
January 24, Zoom, $110/Seniors $95. 12pm-5pm at 1 Belmont St. in Cambridge
labels seeking the opportunity to snag a
(attached to Sofra Bakery). To place your
hit. Some were natural hits; others were
NEW Four Composers in the order email info@violettewine.com or
by accident, or luck, or both! Cash Box
Shadow of Verdi and a German call 617-876-4125 in advance to let them
Magazine was one of the prominent music
know you want the “Lexington Opera and
Romantic Opera—Including Two publications that Dick Clark, Solid Gold
Wine Package.” When you arrive for pick
Met HD Screenings up, call them at 617-876-4125 and they
and Rick Dees’ Weekly Top 40 used to
Instructor: David Collins count down the hits. Relive and rediscover
will bring your order outside. Students
your 45 collection with this fun class! Class
Verdi dominated Italian opera from the may also acquire alternative wine for
content is different each term.
middle to the end of the nineteenth the course independently. Email: LCE@
century. Yet there were other composers lexingtonma.org for the course wine list. HHOW, 6 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm. Begins
who achieved a good level of recognition. January 31, Zoom, $80.
HOWP, 4 Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm.
This winter our class will explore four of Begins January 18, Zoom, $65 for 1
these Italian operas and one German person/$100 for 2 people.
opera. In the following order we will
TASTING TEAS FROM ALL OVER
explore: Umberto Giordano’s Fedora
with Paul Angiolillo, p. 24
(1898), containing the famous Italian Aria
“Amor ti vieta” - and which the MET is
doing in HD; Pietro Mascagni’s L’amico Let’s Go to a Musical!
Fritz (1891), which has the well known Instructor: Brian M. O’Connell
“Cherry Duet”; Amilcare Ponchielli’s La
This eight-part series of lectures
Gioconda (1876), famous for its ballet
presented by Brian O’Connell will be
“The Dance of the Hours” and the tenor
a retrospective look at the important
aria “Cielo e mar”; Alfredo Catalani’s La
Broadway musicals from the 1920’s
Wally (1892), premiered by Toscanini and
up to 1980. For many of us, musicals,
containing the soprano aria “ Ebben? Ne
through their songs, characters and plot
andro lontan” Our class will conclude
lines have crept into our hearts, minds
with Wagner’s Lohengrin (1850), a high
and memories. We will look at some of
romantic German opera, which the MET is
the major musicals, discuss composers
also presenting in HD. Beautiful melody,
and lyricists, delve into some historical
exciting drama (and yes, some of the plots
background and listen to all types of tunes
are beyond belief) and great singers will
- from show-stopping ensemble pieces to
help to warm us up during the cold winter.
tender ballads to comedic numbers that
Audio and video will be used in class.
leave us grinning, tapping our toes and
MFCS, 5 Sessions, 6:30-9:00 pm. Begins maybe singing along.
January 10 and meets 1/24, 2/7, 2/28 and
Brian M. O'Connell teaches Let's Go to a Musical, HLGM, 8 Wednesdays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins
3/14, Zoom, $145/Seniors $125. this page. January 18, Zoom, $120/Seniors $100.
10 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043Private Music Instrument Lessons for Every Age and
Level, In-Person and/or on Zoom
LCE provides excellent, convenient, and reasonably priced individu
al
music lessons with highly qualified professional musician teachers
for all
interested students and adults. The following instruments are available
for individual study: Baritone Horn (Euphonium), Bass, Bassoon, Cello,
Jane Wong
Clarinet, Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Flute, French Horn, Guitar, Piano, Voice
Oboe,
Percussion (Drums/xylophone), Saxophone, Sitar, Trombone, Trumpe
t,
Tuba, Ukulele, Upright Bass, Violin or Viola, and Voice. Lessons are
held in the afternoon and evening. Saturday morning lessons are
also
available. Each semester contains approximately 16 lessons. Student
s
must arrange convenient weekly lesson times with the instructor.
The
length of lessons per week can be: 30 minute, 45 minute, or 60 minutes
.
To register: Call the LCE office and we will put you in touch with our
music teaching staff.
For info about LCE Music teaching staff, please visit:
https://lexingtoncommunityed.org/music-instrument-lessons/ Annina Hsieh, Voice,
Beginning Piano
Immei Wong Simone Cartales Bill Kirkley Ben Fox Brian Kane
Violin Violin, Viola Clarinet Oboe Saxophone
Ellen Donohue-Saltman Greg Gettel James Lattini Allan Espinosa Robert Butler
French Horn Trumpet Percussion/Drum Set Violin, Viola Guitar
Jerry Vejmola Jessica Lizak Jobey Wilson John Claybourne Nancy Radnofsky
Sax, Clarinet Flute Tuba/Euphonium Drums Clarinet
Ona Jonaityte Phil Hyman Raluca Dumitrache Robert Rivera David Whetstone
Flute Trombone/ Violin/Viola Cello and Bass Guitar Sitar
Euphonium
Lexington Community Education | Winter 2023 11Music Performance/ Writing
Theatre Arts
NEW Chamber Music Ensemble of the inspiration favorites from the Great Whether it originates from memory or
Instructor: Jane Wong American Songbook including Climb Every fantasy, takes shape as poetry or prose,
Mountain, Fly Me to the Moon and My our expert writing staff will help you get
This class is designed for advanced
Favorite Things. We will look at the poetry your word out.
beginner to advanced instrumentalists
and prosody and analyze why these songs
who are interested in playing chamber
are so well loved from one generation to Grammar 101
music together. There is always more
the next. This is primarily a singing course, Instructor: Tracy Marks
motivation for practice with a group. If
but no singing experience is required. That or which? Who or whom?? Affect
you are comfortable with note reading
and playing with a steady tempo, you will MSGA, 8 Wednesdays, 7:15-8:30 pm. or effect??? Even the best-educated
have fun in this group. Both youth and Begins January 25, Lexington High people can struggle with basic grammar
adult musicians are welcome. Depending School, $110/Seniors $95. and punctuation. If you’re yearning to
on the interest of the group, the last class know the difference between commas
can end with a performance for family and and semicolons, how to avoid dangling
AN INTRODUCTORY HAIKU participles and whether it’s ever okay to
friends. (If you have questions about levels WORKSHOP
and suitability, please check with the LCE split an infinitive, join us for this fun and
with Brad Bennett, facing page
office who will put you in touch with the funny foray into grammar. We’ll focus
instructor). on several dozen common mistakes, do
MCME, 8 Wednesdays, 6:00-7:15 pm. NEW Storytelling for Everyday practice exercises in class and learn easy-
Begins January 25, Lexington High Life: The Professional and to-remember rules to help you focus on
what you’re trying to say, rather than on
School, $110/Seniors $95. Personal Series
how you’re saying it.
Instructor: Liana Henry
Learn Guitar in the Style You GRRF, 2 Fridays, 12:30-2:30 pm. Begins
Where can you use storytelling? You don’t
Want to Play have to be a writer to be a storyteller.
January 20, Zoom, $45/Seniors $35.
Instructor: Robert Butler By learning a number of foundational
For centuries, the music of the guitar techniques, you too can create compelling
has had an inspirational and profound content and make connections where
effect on people of all ages with colorful it matters most. This series of single
melodies and stirring rhythms from workshops are designed to focus on the
every culture. Known for his relaxed areas that are most important to you.
yet structured classroom style, teacher, Choose one or all of them—Storytelling
guitarist Robert Butler engages his is foundational to good communication
students with a diverse curriculum of skills. It expands and promotes—in
music styles from Classical, Pop/Rock, business, government, or community. We
Ethnic, Folk and more. Through classroom all have a story to tell and if we tell it well, Robert Butler teaches Learn Guitar in the Style You
demonstrations and individual instruction, we can inspire and motivate for results. Want to Play, this page.
students of all levels will learn the These classes will be offered in person at
essential fundamentals through advanced Lexington High School.
Journal Writing for Personal
skills of melodic and rhythmic guitar MWYP, 1 Tuesday, January 17, 7:00 -9:00 pm:
technique. Each student should have an
Growth
Storytelling from the Podium - Speeches,
acoustic or electric guitar. All music charts Instructor: Tracy Marks
Keynotes, and Public Speaking Mastery, $20.
and diagrams will be provided. Come join Journal writing is an enjoyable
MSFB, Tuesday, January 31, 7:00-9:00 pm:
our friendly group of guitarists! and constructive means of gaining
Storytelling for Business: Tips for
MRGW, 4 Thursdays, 6:30-9:00 pm. personal insight to help us deal with
Newsletters, Webpages, Slide Decks, and
Begins January 19, Lexington High life’s challenges and awaken to new
Pitches, $20.
School, Room 166, $120/Seniors $110. possibilities. Led by a counselor and
MSTH, Tuesday, February 14, 7:00-9:00 pm: self-help author, we will use structured
M2GRW, 4 Thursdays, 6:30-9:00 pm. Storytelling that Helps Others Learn: exercises to write about many aspects of
Begins February 16, Lexington High Trainings, Webinars, and Teaching with our lives. In the process, we will reawaken
School, Room 166, $120/Seniors $110. Stories, $20. our Muse and uncover our sources of
MGSS, Tuesday, February 28, 7:00-9:00 pm:
NEW Singing the Great American Getting Social with Storytelling: Podcasts,
personal fulfillment. Each week on Zoom,
we will delve into our feelings, thoughts,
Songbook Social Channels, and Influencing through experiences and visions of our future,
Instructor: Jane Wong Storytelling, $20. optionally sharing excerpts from our
Do you like show tunes from Broadway MSYS, Tuesday, March 14, 7:00-9:00 pm: writing in a supportive environment.
musical theater and Hollywood movie Selling Yourself with Storytelling: Boosting WJPG, 4 Tuesdays, 6:45-8:45 pm. Begins
musicals? In this course, we will sing some your Job Search with Stories, $20. January 17, Zoom, $90/Seniors $80.
12 LexingtonCommunityEd.org | 781.862.8043Memoir Writing NEW Zuihitsu: A Reading Writing
Instructor: Tom Daley Workshop
Memory is not an instrument for exploring Instructor: Cathie Desjardins
the past but its theatre. Zuihitsu means literally following the
— Walter Benjamin running brush, a reference to Japanese
Whether you intend to share your written calligraphy where spontaneity is essential
remembrances with family and friends for artistry and representation. We will
or a broader audience, you will find this write in English, not paint, to approximate
a collegial and supportive workshop in this centuries-old quintessential Japanese
which optional weekly exercises will help “formless form,” which has been
you to transform the rich material of your characterized as “brief essays on random
life into unique works of art, including topics.” Like ikebana, tanka and haiku,
memoir pieces, personal essays and even it cultivates irregularity and suggestion.
the beginning of a book-length memoir. Try your hand at composing to feel
All work will be written outside of the spontaneous.
workshop and brought for a critique by WZRW, 4 Mondays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins
other participants and the instructor, January 30, Zoom, $90/Seniors $80.
during which time techniques for better
writing will be explored. Be prepared An Introductory Haiku Workshop
to share something you have written Instructor: Brad Bennett
Chandreyee Lahiri leads Flash Fiction, see below.
of a memoir nature—a journal entry, a
Celebrate the extraordinary in the
paragraph describing a relationship,
ordinary with the most popular poetry
NEW Flash Fiction for the a letter recounting some memorable
form in the world! Haiku connects us
Doubtful Writer incident in your life—to the first meeting
more deeply to the natural world and
Instructor: Chandreyee Lahiri of the workshop. The piece should be 750
can provide solace in difficult times. In
words or less.
Flash fiction is a short story that is typically this three-part on-line class, we will learn
just a few hundred words long but with WMEM, 6 Wednesdays, 4:00-6:00 pm. about the history and key elements of
a distinct beginning, middle and end. Begins February 1 and meets 2/8, 2/15, haiku, including concision, a seasonal
The most famous example—dubiously 3/1, 3/8, 3/15 Zoom, $165/Seniors $140. setting and the juxtaposition of concrete
attributed to Hemmingway—reads ‘For experiences. Using writing prompts, we
sale: baby shoes. Never used.’ In each class
Poetry Writing Workshop will also try our hand at writing some haiku
of this session, the instructor will share a Instructor: Tom Daley poems. Everyone is welcome to this fun
prompt (a sentence, word or picture) then Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is and supportive workshop, beginners and
start a 20 minute timer. The whole class will the skeleton architecture of our lives. It folks who have written haiku before.
write their respective stories impulsively, lays the foundation for a future of change, HHAI, 3 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm. Begins
from sheer instinct. At the end of the a bridge across our fears of what has January 17, Zoom, $55.
period, attendees will have the option never been before. – Audre Lourde
of sharing their work with the group and Poetry writing, largely, is a solitary An Intermediate Haiku Workshop
receiving feedback from the instructor. This endeavor. This workshop will provide the Instructor: Brad Bennett
method has been tested by the instructor opportunity for poets, both beginning The haiku is a small, but powerful poem!
over many years in flash fiction groups. The and practiced, to share their work with The way of haiku is about staying open,
time pressure and low stakes (no Nobel other poets in a collegial and supportive observing closely and recording little
worthy literature is expected) tends to environment. We will concentrate on moments in our day. Writing haiku can
free people from self-doubt and endless sharpening the impact of your poems help us find our gratitude. This supportive
edit-loops and even offers catharsis. Past through careful consideration of their writing workshop is designed for folks
writers have found release and insights strengths and their limitations. Optional who have taken haiku classes or have
into their own minds as they inadvertently take-home writing exercises will give you written haiku previously. In this six-part
explored hidden thoughts and feelings the opportunity to explore the myriad on-line writing class, we will wade further
through fictitious characters and settings. forms poetry can take. Be prepared to into the haiku pond. We will learn more
The instructor will provide writing tips share a recent poem (no more than two about key elements of haiku. We will also
and guidelines and in every class discuss pages long) at the first session. try our hand at writing prompts during
one key aspect of writing such as setting, WPWW, 6 Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. classes and ones that are designed as
description, voice etc. Begins January 11, Meets 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, opportunities to enjoy haiku moments
WFFD, 6 Mondays, 7:00-8:30 pm. Begins 2/8, 2/15 Zoom, $165/Seniors $140. outside of classes.
January 30, Lexington High School, $95/ HINH, 6 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 pm. Begins
Seniors $80. February 7, Zoom, $105.
Lexington Community Education | Winter 2023 13Fine Arts, Fabric &
Graphic Arts
In his book “The Art Spirit” American can be romantic, funny, classic, or even gray. Brushes: Bring what brushes you
painter Robert Henri writes, “To New Age. On Sunday, we’ll focus on your have; #8 #10 round and a one inch flat
apprehend beauty is to work for it.” LCE message and style, with tips on how to is recommended. Paper: Good quality
invites you to work, apprehend, enjoy and make your card as unique and special as watercolor pad; 12” x16”. Palette: White
ultimately add to the beauty of the world your loved one! china plate or a butcher tray. Other
through our many art offerings. ATBV, Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 pm - supplies: Two or three jars for holding
2:30 pm. Meets February 4 and 5, Zoom, water, Rags, paper towel, an HB pencil,
NEW Felt Flower Workshop $40/Seniors $30. kneaded eraser. Please bring a photo of
Instructor: Anja van Ommering your choice as a reference to paint.
Come and make felt flower bouquets NEW Soft Toy Pillow Workshop AWATE, 5 Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30 pm. Begins
that will last forever! Each piece of these Instructor: Sung Ji Lee January 17, Zoom, $115/Seniors $95.
realistic flowers are cut and assembled by A handmade soft toy conveys extra
hand. The workshop is suitable for people care and creativity and makes a perfect Introduction to Acrylic Painting
of all skills, whether beginner or more keepsake for the little ones in our lives. In Instructor: Donna Calleja
advanced. Class size is limited. A $15 this basic soft toy making course (using The painting style of any subject is what
material fee is payable to the instructor at a sewing machine) you will learn how makes each artist and painting unique.
the first class. to do raw edge applique using fusible Students will learn about a variety of
AFFW, 3 Mondays, 10:00 am-1:00 pm. interfacing and free motion quilting. painting styles while practicing techniques
Begins January 23, LCE Classroom, $125/ There will be two separate sessions with in acrylic painting. We will review color
Seniors $115. different projects (egg and donut soft toys mixing, composition, under painting and
or a house-shaped pillow). Please bring a paint application techniques. Students will
NEW Wet-Felting: Surface Design sewing machine and a free motion foot if work to develop a personal painting style
Instructor: Elizabeth Stubbs you have one. All levels are welcome, but to interpret in an original acrylic landscape
In this 8-week series we will explore some class size is limited to four. A supply fee of or still life painting. The class will combine
ways to create surface design and pattern $20 is payable to the instructor in class. teacher demonstration with work time
in two or three dimensions, using wet- ASTB, (Egg & Donut Soft Toys), 1 devoted to individual instruction.
felting techniques. This class is open to Saturday, 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Meets ADAC, 7 Tuesdays, 10:00 am-12:00 pm.
those with some wet-felting experience February 11, Lexington High School, $30. Begins January 24, Hybrid: LCE Classroom
or by permission of the instructor. ASTH, (House-Shaped Pillow), 1 Saturday, or Zoom, $145/Seniors $125.
Assignments will be started in class, but 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Meets March 11,
students may find that additional time will Lexington High School, $30. Beyond the Basics in
be needed to complete them. A materials Acrylic Painting
list will be supplied upon registration. In Watercolor Instructor: Donna Calleja
order to allow time to gather materials, Instructor: Ivan Orlinsky Students in this class will continue to
registration must close by January 13. This class is for both beginners and refine their skills in acrylic painting. We
AWFD, 8 Mondays, 1:30 - 4:30 pm. Begins artists who have some experience with will work to expand knowledge of color
January 23, Zoom, $245/Seniors $200 watercolor. We will begin with an overview mixing, composition and paint application
of the history of watercolor as a medium, techniques while creating personal
successful watercolor painters from the painting projects. We will also look at the
past and present and getting acquainted paintings of master artists for inspiration
FELT FLOWER WORKSHOP
with the materials and supplies we will of style and technique. The class will
with Anja von Ommering, this page
be using. Our first exercise will be laying combine teacher demonstration with work
a flat wash. In subsequent classes we time devoted to individual instruction.
NEW TumbleBook Valentines will work on different techniques such This class builds on the skills learned in
as wet on wet, value studies, layering, the LCE Acrylic Painting for Beginners
Instructor: Annie Zeybekoglu
mixing colors, what colors to include class but is open to all who have worked
Want to surprise your sweetheart this on your palate and a brief overview of with acrylic paints in another program or
Valentine’s Day? TumbleBook cards the qualities of water color paint such on their own.
are personal, easy to make, flirty and as transparent, semi -transparent and ADAA, 7 Thursdays, 10:00 am-12:00 pm.
unexpected. In this 2-day workshop, opaque. There will be a 20 minute warm Begins January 26, Hybrid: LCE Classroom
you will be able to create a unique up exercise at the beginning of each class. or Zoom, $145/Seniors $125.
TumbleBook card that you can personalize Please bring the following materials to
with verses and images for your special the first class: Paints: Cadmium yellow
someone. On Saturday, we will focus on deep; Lemon yellow; Cobalt blue;
creating the card structure and consider French Ultramarine blue; Cerulean blue; SOFT TOY PILLOW WORKSHOP
the ways you can decorate your card. Prussian blue; Cadmium red; Vermillion; with Sun Ji Lee, this page
Depending on your preference, your card Burnt Sienna; Yellow Ochre and Payne’s
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