
Visual Arts
Art is the sensual medium of combining colour and texture to produce things of beauty and utility. Art is about the inner vision being unleashed into outer expressions be that through appreciating the art of others or creating your very own art works.
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Looting for the Louvre - Bonaparte and French Imperialism
<p>Napoleon looted art as the booty of conquest. This was justified on the grounds that the confiscated works of art, were themselves being “liberated” into the Enlightenment values of the French
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Painting in Spain: From the Renaissance to Goya
<p>Spain’s relationship to Europe and the rest of the world is better understood than its internal culture and art history. Yet even with the exclusion of Velazquez, Murillo and Goya, Spain produced
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Threads of Identity - Traditional Persian Fashion Across Ethnic Regions
<p>From the nomadic Qashqai to the elegant Gilak and Kurdish weavers, this course offers a rich visual and historical journey through Iran’s regional dress traditions. Explore how culture, geography,
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Introducing your Digital Camera Weekend Workshop
<p>This class is for the beginner. Learn how to use your camera more effectively than just pressing the shutter button. Take control of the essential functions to effect changes in your photographs.
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Introducing your Digital Camera Weekend Workshop
<p>This class is for the beginner. Learn how to use your camera more effectively than just pressing the shutter button. Take control of the essential functions to effect changes in your photographs.
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Composing Landscape with Light and Shadow
<p>We will explore the drawings and paintings of one of Europe’s premier landscape artists of the past, Gaspard Dughet. Study his poetic use of light and shadow (chiaroscuro), aerial perspective and
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Linocut Relief Printing Without a Press for Continuers
<p>Work to your own level of expertise using your preferred medium in an open studio workshop. Continue developing your relief printmaking techniques without a press to express your inner creative
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Acrylic Painting
<p>Join us in this course to greatly improve your painting skills! Every 1-2 weeks we progress through beginner to intermediate paintings. Learn effective brushwork techniques and memorable concepts
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Introduction of Colour Ink Chinese Painting
<p>Literati painting reached its climax around second half of 11th century when painters were defiant against the vulgar and lifeless Imperial Academic Style. Intellect elites sought spiritual refuge
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Contemporary Art - The Essentials
<p>This course will introduce a variety of contemporary art history concepts and cultural movements that continue to influence artworks today. Take a deep dive into interesting performance,
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Learn to Draw & Paint Birds, Plants & Nature Using Watercolour & Gouache
<p>Explore the broad and numerous areas of Illustration - Birds, Fauna,Natural History and Botanicals using pen, watercolour and gouache to draw and paint subjects. The course, will referencing past
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