Art & Architecture   

Watercolor is a beautiful, transparent medium that is often considered difficult to master. In this introductory course, designed for the absolute beginner, we will cover watercolor materials, basic techniques, color, composition, and introductory perspective. Through the completion of structured exercises that are fun and informative, the participant will develop an understanding of the medium, learn specific skills designed to help the participant to create their own paintings, and help each participant to develop their own style. Watercolor painting is a journey, and this is the first, enjoyable step.

Joan Joans has taught several OLLI courses, mostly focused on mathematics. She has been studying watercolor for more than 10 years and want to focus her instructing skills in this area.

After Catherine the Great took over “The Pale of Settlement” from Poland, Russia’s Jewish population increased enormously. Despite restrictions, the Jewish artists created diverse art that contributed to the artistic variety of the 19th and 20th century. This overview shows how much their work enriched the local and international worlds of their day.

As the education outreach coordinator at the Museum of Russian Art, Carol Veldman Rudie uses her college teaching skills and graduate degrees to research and to present background to Russian art and culture.

Meets every Monday online from 1-3pm and the

first Friday of the month in-person 10am-1pm at the Jewish Community Center

Calling all artists to join, share, learn, improve, and explore. Bring your art materials, and choose your subject, be it a landscape, a portrait, flowers, or an abstract. We come together for camaraderie and to encourage the improvement of our art skills. The group has experienced artists as well as novices.

Each Monday Zoom session we will choose an art goal of our own making and are encouraged to share progress the next week. The sessions include an instructional video tailored to the group. We paint together in person every first Friday of each month. The group will have meet-up outing opportunities to explore community art shows, museums, and events together.

This study group begins in the Early Classical Period, ca. 480-450 BCE, when sculptors achieve near perfection in their nude male and draped female figures. In relief sculptures, the illusion of recession into space is mastered. For many viewers, the epitome of ancient Greek art is the High Classical period, ca. 450-430 BCE, when the attainment of perfection is undeniable in the Parthenon in Athens and Polykleitos’ Spear Bearer statue. The stability and perfection of high classical Greek art, however, does not last long. The equilibrium of the high classical period rapidly disintegrated when Alexander the Great in Greece and the rulers of eastern kingdoms started wars. Through the late fifth and fourth centuries, wealthy successors of Alexander commissioned grandiose architecture, and to gratify their taste for the exotic and erotic, artists represented new subjects in sculptures and paintings.

Dr. Molly Lindner received the Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. Her book, Portraits of the Vestal Virgins: Priestesses of Ancient Rome, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2015.