art club for adults

art club for adults | jan – may 2012  
every thursday | 1 – 3pm

The mission of this program is to stimulate creativity and provide an opportunity for discussions about art and life.

first thursday of the month: art history lectures given by the director of education, dr. adrienne von lates
jan  Realists to Impressionists
feb  Special guest – Paul Petzinger from Fairchild Tropical Gardens will speak
about Will Ryman’s flower sculptures
mar  Post-Impressionists and the birth of Abstract Art
apr  Surrealism to American Abstract Expressionism
may  Pop to Post-Modernism

second thursday of the month: contemporary art lectures – introduction to approaches to art-making given by the director of education, dr. adrienne von lates
jan  Feminist and “Post-Feminist” Art
feb  6 strategies – Modernist Forms-Political Content; Humor; The Pathetic Aesthetic;
Small Scale, Big Ideas; Sewing, Knitting, Crafting; Childhood Revisited
mar  6 strategies – Creating Mythologies; Sex and Desire; Entertainment and the Media; Appropriation; Death and Dying; Painting and Photography
apr  6 Strategies – The identity issue; Entropy and Apocalypse; The Artist as a Social Mediator; Anti-Consumerism; Faux-Naïve art; The Beautiful and the Sublime
may  6 strategies – Performing Bodies; Avatars and Virtual Realities; Mapping and Globalization; Architectural Interventions; Video as a Substitute for Painting; Sound Art

third thursday of the month: hands-on art classes taught by andrea robbins
jan  Impressionist flowers and landscapes focusing on brush stroke, color layering,
and palate knife techniques
feb  Studio mixed media sculpture class – Will Ryman flowers
mar  Mixed media abstract painting, inspired by Wassily Kandinsky
apr  Charles LeDray miniatures – mixed media sculpting
may  Pop Art – Andy Warhol “Flowers” color block prints

last thursday of the month: films about art
jan  The Desert of Forbidden Art – Documentary about a collection of Soviet-Era
Art in Uzbekistan
feb  Herb and Dorothy – Documentary about the collection created by the Vogels,
a NYC postal worker and his wife
mar  Camille Claudel – Feature film about Rodin’s mistress, who was a sculptress
apr  The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance – Documentary about the Florentine banking family and the artists they supported, including Botticelli and Michelangelo
may  The Secret Life of a Masterpiece – part of the BBC documentary series; in-depth examination of Botticelli’s “La Primavera” and Michelangelo’s “David”

members & miami beach residents: free
non-members: cost of museum admission ($8, $6 seniors/students)

For more info:
305-673-7530 x1001 | info@bassmusuem.org