Art Appreciation with Susan Pennington
The Cape’s favorite Art 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 (optional) day trip.
1:30 – 3:30 pm
8-week sessions
Starting September 17, January 13 and March 24
$50 per course
Fall: ART AT THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN MUSEUM.
Wednesdays starting September 17
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: October 15; RISD Chace Center opening exhibits: Dale Chihuly site-specific glass installation, and “Building Books: The Art of David Macaulay.” Leaves Falmouth Conservatory at 10 AM, returns 5 PM.
Winter: HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.
Tuesdays starting January 13
A survey of building from Stonehenge to Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Modern. Trip: February 17; Provincetown Art Association and Museum (an LEED-Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified building), Bauhaus houses, and the Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans. Leaves Falmouth Conservatory at 10 AM, returns 5 PM.
Spring: Italian Renaissance Art
Tuesdays starting March 24
The art of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Angelico, Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Tintoretto, Titian, and Veronese.
Trip: April 28; Boston, MFA: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Leaves Falmouth Conservatory at 10 AM, returns 5 PM.
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 and her classes are always filled with appreciative students.
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