Organizing Your Life Using Technology – Calendars, Reminders, Scanning Docs and More
$49 / $58
NC4146 – Naples Center – February 27, March 6, 13 at 6:30pm – 8pm, Wednesdays – 4.5 hours Learn how to organize your life using technology. Topics covered will be utilizing calendars, tasks, reminders, note programs, scanning paper documents, file organization on your computer, synchronizing data across devices and more. Instructor: Mr. Sal Catalfamo
CONTEMPORARY ART The Salke Contemporary Art Study Group
$195 / $225
NC3690 – Naples Center – January 18, February 15, March 15, April 26 at 11am – 1:30pm, Fridays – 6 hours Please note that the course fees above include a lunch with each of the four presenters. New members are welcome! The Contemporary Art Study Group is limited to the first 70 paid participants. Participants may register for the series above (NC3690) or for any individual lectures below. The individual lecture fees below do not include lunch. Expand your knowledge, insight, and understanding of the vibrant and ever-changing world of contemporary art. In an intellectually stimulating and challenging lecture series, nationally recognized experts will share their knowledge of the artists, forms, styles, and innovations that helped to define contemporary art.
What’s Love Got to Do with It? How Art Conveys Emotion
$34 / $39
NC3691 – Naples Center – January 18 at 11am – 12:30pm, Friday – 1.5 hours Bonnie Clearwater will examine how emotion is conveyed in works by such artists as Rita Ackermann, John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Ragnar Kjartansson, Ana Mendieta, Jack Pierson, Mark Rothko and others. Instructor: Ms. Bonnie Clearwater, Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Food and Architecture – An Architect’s Studio as a Kitchen of Ideas and Realization
$34 / $39
NC3692 – Naples Center – February 15 at 11am – 12:30pm, Friday – 1.5 hours This lecture compares an architect’s studio to a kitchen of ideas and realization. It addresses the complex status of contemporary architecture and how local materials and techniques should be sources of inspiration and systems of design-thinking that lead to real, sustainable goals in environmental and unique design identities. The talk features museums and other design projects by wHY Architecture as well as encouraging examples from other designers and also chefs from all around the world whose work highlights the reinterpretation of local ingredients and techniques towards the making of unique contemporary design solutions. Instructor: Mr. Kulapat Yantrasast, Partner, wHY Architecture / HOW Laboratory
More Than Just Paint: The Evolution of Public Mural-Making in Philadelphia
$34 / $39
NC3693 – Naples Center – March 15 at 11am – 12:30pm, Friday – 1.5 hours In June 1984, Jane Golden, a young muralist from New Jersey, headed up a project originally planned as a six-week youth program in the fledgling Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network. This small exercise in fighting graffiti has grown into the largest public art program of its kind in the U.S. Over the past 28 years, in collaboration with artists, neighborhood residents, and volunteers, the Mural Arts Program has created over 3,600 murals—a vibrant outdoor art gallery that has helped to change the social and cultural fabric of the city. See murals in all their beauty. Learn about their inspiring stories. Go behind the scenes to find out how murals are made. Discover how murals give communities a new way to define themselves. Instructor: Ms. Jane Golden, Executive Director, City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
From Vision to Reality: Building the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art $34 / $39 NC3694 – Naples Center – April 26 at 11am – 12:30pm, Friday – 1.5 hours If you build it will they come? Take a look behind the scenes with Dr. Don Bacigalupi, Executive Director of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the major new museum opened in Bentonville, Arkansas in November
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Register online at http://RegisterRA.fgcu.edu or call 239-425-3272 / 239-434-4737