In-person Historic Preservation Walking Tours SUNY Westchester Peekskill • 27North Division Street Peekskill NY10566• 914-606-7300 5 New Rochelle Residence Park Residence Park is one of the earliest residential parks containing excellent examples of Queen Anne and Shingle style homes. We will also see a John Russell Pope designed church, a college with an 1855 Gothic “castle,” the homes of notable residents such as Lou Gehrig, playwright Robert Anderson, Jay Leno, a presidential mistress, and more. The tour will last approximately two hours.Tour Guide is Barbara Davis, New Rochelle City Historian and Co-Director of Westchester County Historical Society. Attendees will meet at 1:00 p.m. in front of Presbyterian Church of New Rochelle at 50 Pintard Ave., New Rochelle. CE-HIST 2167PE, $40. OFF-SITE Sat., May 11, 1:00-3:00pm. #3743 Architectural History Tour of Newburgh This day-long walking tour will include a visit to Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, the Crawford House Museum and a tour of Newburgh’s many other iconic buildings. Designers such as Downing, Vaux, Olmsted, Withers and others will be discussed. We will also examine the tragic period of Urban Renewal when many buildings were lost along with the preservation movement that prevented further destruction in the 1960s and 70s. Johanna Porr Yaun, Orange County Historian. CE-HIST 2148PE, $50. Tuition not including independent lunch. OFF-SITE Sat., July 13, 10:00am-3:00pm. #3744 Architectural History Tour of Rhinebeck, Rhinecliff, and Staatsburg This is a guided walking and driving tour all within a five-mile radius of the Village of Rhinebeck. Sites include FDR’s New Deal era post office; the site of Aaron Burr’s 1804 pre-Hamilton duel campaign headquarters; early settler residences; sites of Astor, Morton, and Ruppert estates; architect Richard Upjohn’s Saint Margaret’s Church; Staatsburgh State Historic Site (Mills Mansion), and more. Alan Strauber, Historian and Program Coordinator of the Historic Preservation Certificate. Attendees will assemble in front of Beekman Arms, 6387 Mill St. (Rte 9) in Rhinebeck. CE-HIST 2149PE, $45. Tuition not including post-tour dinner at Beekman Arms. OFF-SITE Sat., June 22, 10:00am-1:00pm. #3742 Community Arts for Adults www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill NEW! Figure Drawing with Live Model This course provides students with general instruction on how to draw the figure and portraiture. It includes gestural drawing in a variety of media. Short quick gestural drawing will be followed by longer poses and then by a period of independent work. This course is recommended for those looking to start out with the figure or wishing to hone their skills. Supply list available. CE-ART 2364PE, $250. IN-PERSON Sat., June 1-29, 9:00am-12:00noon. #3774 IN-PERSON Sat., July 13-Aug.10, 9:00am-12:00noon. #3775 Painting En Plein Air–24Hrs Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. Rain dates TBA. Focus will be on color mixing, light and shadow, and composition. Students will be informed of the great plein air traditions of the Impressionists and the Hudson River School painters. Various approaches to landscape painting will be introduced, including water-mixable techniques in oil painting. CE-ART 2020PE, $287. OFF-SITE Sat., June 1-July 27 (skip 7/6), 1:00-4:00pm. #3777 Mixed Media PrintmakingforAdults–24Hrs The Mixed Media Printmaking course is a dynamic and versatile explorationofmonotype,reliefprinting,linocut,screen printing, andprontoplatelithography.Itencouragesparticipants to discover their preferred methods and express their creativity across different forms. The course includes an introduction to various printmaking techniques, experimentation with various media, creating fine art prints, creating design objects, e.g.,tee-shirts, training on printmaking equipment suchas a printing press, instruction on digital lab skills,e.g.,copy machine and jet printer to make prints, and an understanding of the versatility of printmaking. CE-ART 2334PE, $322. IN-PERSON T/Th, June 18-Aug.1(skip 7/2&7/4), 6:30-8:30pm. #3778 Painting & Drawing for Adults–24Hrs Get your ideas out of your sketchbook! Students will enjoy painting in the studio in class and outdoors in an interactive environment. In this class, students will learn from discussion, group critique, examples of art while honing art skills of observation, gesture, composition, value, color mixing, and brushstroke, etc. The teaching artist demonstrates painting and drawing techniques for portraiture, representing the human form, and landscape, abstraction. CE-ART 2146PE, $287. IN-PERSON M/W, June 24-Aug.7 (skip 7/3&7/5), 6:30-8:30pm. #3779 Followusonsocial media! Facebook @PeekskillWCC Instagram @WCC_Peekskill
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