Barnstable Art & Photography Classes for Adults

Art Appreciation                                                                           with Susan Pennington

Our most popular course in Falmouth comes to West Barnstable! Join us as the Cape’s favorite Art Appreciation expert opens three exciting worlds to you: The Art of RISD, The History of Architecture and the incomparable Italian Renaissance Art. Each eight-week course is complete with beautiful visual support and fascinating information that bring these remarkable subjects into marvelous clarity and understanding. Each subject area is capped with a fun and illuminating museum trips (optional and an additional charge).

Thursdays 1:30 – 3:30 pm
8-week sessions
Starts October 9
$50 per course

Fall: ART AT THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN MUSEUM. Cassatt, Cézanne, Gauguin, Homer, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Sargent and the architecture of José Rafael Moneo, RI preservationists Doris Duke, Beatrice Chace, and Newport Society.

Trip: RISD Chace Center opening exhibits: Dale Chihuly site-specific glass installation, and “Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay.” Details TBA.

Winter (Starts January 15)

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. A survey of building from Stonehenge to Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern.

Trip: Provincetown Art Association and Museum (an LEED-Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified building), Bauhaus houses, and the Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans. Details TBA.

Spring (Starts March 26)

Italian Renaissance Art: The art of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Tintoretto, Titian, and Veronese.

Trip: Boston, MFA: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Details TBA.

Susan Pennington received her M.A. in Art History from the University of Wisconsin. She has taught at the Cape Cod Community College, Falmouth Academy, and the International School of Bergen, Norway.  She has created a loyal and large following in Falmouth and her classes are always filled with appreciative students.

Loretta Feeney at the Cape Cod Conservatory

For more than 25 years Loretta Feeney has been painting on location in New England, the UK and Europe.  And her work is exhibited internationally.  We are delighted to have her as part of our faculty.  For more information about her, please visit www.lorettafeeney.wordpress.com 

High School Painting and Portfolio                          with Loretta Feeney

High school students looking to develop or strengthen their portfolios for art school consideration or just get a head start with advanced studies in the arts will enjoy working with one of New England’s top artists and teachers. This class will offer instruction in drawing, watercolors and oils catering to the student’s individual preferences and needs.

Tuesdays 6:00 - 8:30 pm

6 weeks starting September 23

$140

On-Location Painting                                                        with Loretta Feeney

This is an on-location oil painting class. All facets of painting outside will be covered, including preparation, as well as subject selection and subject elimination, capturing the strongest Cape compositions. How to take the right reference shots with your camera will be taught each week. 

Students will be encouraged to work the various subjects with confidence and commitment to “the study.”  More experienced students will be encouraged to work in larger formats.  All students will be encouraged to get out of one’s usual routines and paint beautiful motifs. In the event of rain classes will be at the Conservatory’s art studio, working up the paintings in progress.

Fridays 1:00 – 3:30 pm

8 weeks starting September 19

$190

Flow, Craft & Collage For Holidays Or Anytime!           with Christina Jacobi

Jump-start your creative expression by freely experimenting with paints. Fun and easy techniques that you can replicate at home include dripping, sponging, flowing, stamping and printing.

Create a collection of surprising and unexpected surface designs while also using assorted papers, fabric, cutting tools and punches. Use these creations and some "found objects" to make art collage, personalized greeting cards, wrapping paper or other projects of personal choice.

Tuesdays 10:00 - 12:00 noon
4 weeks
Starting October 7
$90 plus $10 materials fee

Christina Jacobi, BA, M.Ed, has been an art educator for as long as she can remember. She focuses on painting, multimedia, and photography and has exhibited extensively in the past 18 months.

How to Improve your Photography                               with Doug Long

Unlock your artistic and technical potential as you learn the secrets of your camera and the Great Themes of classic photography... and have fun doing it:

• The mysteries of MACRO (close-up) images and their great beauty.
• PORTRAITS classic and creative: self portraits, family and pet portraits.
• How to see and use LIGHT AND SHADOW to "sculpt" scenes and objects.
• Learn the classic lessons of COMPOSITION, e.g. the "rule of thirds," the "golden rectangle" from the Renaissance, and more.
• You will learn why the STILL LIFE has been a fundamental feature of the visual arts for at least eight hundred years and how to shoot them.
• NATURE photography uses all these lessons to help you produce images worthy of frames and gifts to friends and family.

The course includes an optional trip on October 23 to the Museum of Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester; and dinner in a private room at Daniel Webster's original homestead in Marshfield ($149). 

Mondays 5:30 - 8:00 pm
6 Weeks
Starting October 6
$250

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