VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

1960s Movies

VIPA 1008

Tuesday

Dates: 9/19 to 11/7 (8 weeks)

Time: 1–4 PM

Facilitators: Larry Matten, Platinum Facilitator/Greg Petty, Master Facilitator

Location: Online

Class Limit: 75 Participants

Sponsoring Site: Central

The 1960s was a period of great change. These changes are reflected in the movies of the times. We will view comedies through dramas to help you remember and/or learn about this distinctive time in our American history. Selected are eight movies from a list of the top 50 movies of the ’60s that have a best film rating from IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes. Sample some of the decade’s new stars (Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Katharine Ross). We will be exposed to films directed by outstanding directors such as Kubrick, Hitchcock, Nichols, Donen, and Wilder. The ’60s saw the beginning of movie series such as The Pink Panther, Planet of the Apes, James Bond, and Neil Simon movies. Join us for fun afternoons of film and discussion.

Abstract Art, Dialogue, and Demonstration

VIPA 1027

Thursday

Dates: 10/19 to 11/9 (4 weeks)

Time: 9:30–11:30 AM

Facilitator: Bob Manning

Location: Online

Class Limit: Unlimited

Sponsoring Site: West

Up your creative game and explore the how and why of noted abstract artists such as Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell, Richard Diebenkorn and Agnes Martin. We will discuss what they’re saying, how they’re saying it, what it means to you, what it means to the world at large, past and present. With the aid of biographic and how they do it videos we will look into their worlds and experience the rewards of their work from both an aesthetic standpoint as well as a prompt for self-discovery. We will also PLAY, and it’s optional of course, with basic inexpensive art making materials, and give it a go at experiencing what the abstract masters experienced when it comes to that connection between applying the paint and our innate sensations.