Workforce Development and Community Education: Spring 2025

For more class information, visit www.sunywcc.edu/lifelonglearning • To register, call 914-606-6830, unless otherwise specified. For registration hours, check the back of this brochure. 12 COMMUNITY ART LEARN THE ARTS AT PEEKSKILL NEW! IN-PERSON Introduction to Modern Art This course will provide the essential history of the developments in Fine Art that led to the styles we call Modern or Contemporary. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-ART 2368, 4 Fri., Apr. 18-May 9, 10:00 am12:00 noon, Location TBD, $120. J Coppola. #47389 IN-PERSON Wire Crochet Jewelry Learn how to crochet metallic threads with silver, gold, copper or enameled copper wire and create high-end jewelry. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-ART 2357, 6 Sat., Jan. 25-Mar. 1, 1:00-3:00 pm, Location TBD, $140 (+ $30 materials fee, payable to instructor on first day of class). B Medina de la Cruz. #47243 IN-PERSON Beadweaving This course will explore basic bead weaving stitches and how they can be used to create a variety of jewelry pieces using seed beads of different sizes and shapes. Email instructor for a materials list prior to class: jackie@jjattic.com CE-CRAFT 2000, $220. J Johnson. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: Sec. A: 5 Thurs., Jan. 16-Feb. 13, 12:30-3:30 pm, KNC-4. #47125 Sec. B: 5 Thurs., Apr. 10-May 8, 12:30-3:30 pm, KNC-4. #47126 REMOTE American Impressionism Connecticut was the birthplace of American Impressionism. The movement offered a simpler more stable world after the Civil War and a return to the values of the nation’s founding fathers. CE-ART 2363, 3 Wed., Apr. 2-16, 12:00 noon-1:30 pm, $85. C Andersen. #47176 IN-PERSON Cartooning and Comics Taught by a professional cartoonist with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instruction. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-ART 2122, 8 Sat., Mar. 15-May 3, 11:00 am1:00 pm, Location TBD, $220. V Davis. #47182 Please call 914-606-7300 or email peekskill@sunywcc.edu to register for any of the classes below. The followng classes are offered by SUNY Westchester Peekskill, located at 27 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY. For more information, visit www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill IN-PERSON Painting En Plein Air in 24 Hrs. - Offsite Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. 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. Rain dates TBA. CE-ART 2020PE, 8 Sat., Mar. 22-May 17 (skip 4/19), 10:00 am-1:00 pm, $287. #47595 IN-PERSON Painting & Drawing for Adults in 24 Hrs. 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. At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2146PE, 12 Mon., Feb. 3-Apr. 21, 6:30-8:30 pm, $287. #47593 IN-PERSON Mixed Media Printmaking for Adults in 24 Hrs. A dynamic and versatile exploration of monotype, relief printing, lino-cut, screen printing, and pronto plate lithography. It encourages participants 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 such as 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. At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2334PE, 8 Tues., Feb. 4-Mar. 25, 6:30-9:30 pm, $322. #47594 IN-PERSON Figure Drawing with Live Model General instruction on how to draw the figure and portraiture. 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. At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2364PE, $250. Sec. A: 5 Sat., Feb. 1-Mar. 1, 9:00 am-12:00 noon, #47590 Sec. B: 5 Sat., Mar. 8-Apr. 5., 9:00 am-12:00 noon, #47591 Sec. C: 5 Sat., Apr. 12-May 10 (skip 4/19), 9:00 am-12:00 noon, #47592 NEW! IN-PERSON Two Great European Filmmakers: Bergman and Fellini a detailed overview of the history of video art from the early experiments of the 1960s through to our contemporary moment responding where artificial intelligence and augmented reality, have become new tools. Students will leave the class having a thorough understanding of video arts context and relevance to today’s contemporary art landscape. Each course will consist of a lecture, class discussion, as well as time spend viewing examples of historically important works in the history of the video art movement. Meets offsite at KinoSaito Art Center, located in 115 7th St. Verplanck, NY. CE-ART 2358PE, 6 Thurs., Feb. 20-Apr. 3 (skip 3/20), 5:30-8:30 pm, $330 #47596

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