Master Classes

Tickets are required for all Campus on the Lake master classes. Purchase tickets via: The Four Arts app ■ www.fourarts.org ■ customerservice@fourarts.org ■ (561) 805-8562 All master classes take place in the Dixon Education Building, unless otherwise noted. Please check www.fourarts.org for any in-season updates prior to attending.

Conversations on Style

with Steven Stolman

Wednesdays at 3 p.m. December 1; January 5; March 23; April 6 $25 per master class

Enjoy lively conversations with extraordinary leaders from the worlds of fashion, décor, food and hospitality! Designer, author, and observer of all things stylish, Steven Stolman is a graduate of New York’s Parsons School of Design. After spending many years as a “worker bee” on Seventh Avenue, he went out on his own with a collection of resort wear for men, women and children that captivated Palm Beach for over a decade. In 2011, Stolman was tapped to serve as president of Scalamandré, the renowned textiles house. Since then, he has become an author and photojournalist. December 1 Aerin Lauder

March 23 Douglas Friedman

January 5 Elaine Wynn

April 6 Alfredo Paredes

The Commonwealth of Drama

with Murray Biggs, Ph.D.

10 a.m. to noon • December 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, and 16 $375 for series

December 6: Ireland December 8: Australia December 9: South Africa December 13: Nigeria This survey of modern English-language drama December 15: Caribbean traces themes linking the work of writers from December 16: Canada across the Commonwealth of Nations, as well as the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic circumstances of each work individually. These themes include the relations between colonizer and colonized; religious and political tensions within a community; the threat of violence or oppression, especially of women; economic disparities; racial prejudice; the call of home; the significance of myth. Participants will be given plays to read from each area prior to each session. Murray Biggs is a semi-retired professor of Theater Studies (with English and Film) at Yale, where he has taught since 1986.

American Foreign Policy with Jeffrey Morton, Ph.D.

Thursdays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. January 20; February 10; March 31; April 7 and 21 $125 for 5-part series or $35 a lecture Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

In this continuing lecture series, Dr. Jeffrey Morton will address global challenges that are rapidly changing. Not one of the topics is what it was a decade ago and each one’s future evolution will have enormous strategic implications for the United States and the international system.

January 20: Artificial Intelligence February 10: China in Africa March 31: Kashmir April 7: Colombia April 21: Nuclear Weapons

Jeffrey S. Morton is Professor of World Politics at Florida Atlantic University and a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association. Dr. Morton received his Master’s degree from Rutgers University in 1991 and his Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina in 1995. The author of three books, numerous journal articles and book chapters, Professor Morton has published on issues ranging from the legality of interventions and weapons of war to the United Nations, Israeli security and U.S. foreign policy. Dr. Morton has lectured nationally on matters relating to U.S. foreign policy, is the recipient of the FAU Researcher of the Year Award, Talon Service Award, and was the 2019 FAU Distinguished Teacher of the Year.

America from the Gay 90s to the Roaring 20s

with Taylor Hagood, Ph.D.

Mondays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. January 24; February 28; March 21; April 11 $100 for series January 24: Writing a Nation in the World February 28: The Grand Musical Pageant March 21: Drama, Drama, Drama! April 11: A Soft but Serious Vision in Art

This series offers an exploration of wondrous moments in American cultural and artistic history from the 1890s to the 1920s. The literary works of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, were set against a musical backdrop of John Philip Sousa, Scott Joplin, Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, and Ma Rainey. The stage saw famous performances by Richard Golden, musical performances by Lillian Russell, the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan, magic by Howard Thurston and Harry Houdini, and the multitalented acts of Vaudeville. Providing visual color were the gritty interpretations of Robert Henri and George Bellows, the pastel loveliness of Mary Cassatt, the rainy splendor of Childe Hassam, and the decorative vision of Tiffany. Taylor Haywood is an award-winning writer, scholar, and professor at FAU.

Presented in conjunction with the art exhibition In A New Light: American Impressionism 1870-1940, Works from the Bank of America Collection (see Page 12).

Reading the Divine Comedy: The Inferno

with Joseph Luzzi, Ph.D.

** VIRTUAL PROGRAM ** 10 to 11:30 a.m., February 15, 17, and 22 $225 for series

As we celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, what makes his Divine Comedy such essential reading today? This course will explore the fascinating Inferno of Dante in all its cultural and historical richness, as we consider Dante’s relation to his beloved hometown of Florence, his lacerating experience of exile, and his lifelong devotion to his muse Beatrice. We will pay special attention to the originality and brilliance of Dante’s poetic vision that transformed his great poem into one of the most influential works in literary history. The class will be conducted online in three sessions by Joseph Luzzi (Ph.D., Yale), Professor of Comparative Literature and Faculty Member in Italian Studies at Bard College. Participants will receive a study guide for each class, and the format will be highly interactive through our videoconferencing platform.

Origins of Modernism in Art

with Philip Rylands, Ph.D.

March 28: Vorticism Vorticism was London’s short-lived Modernist response to Parisian Cubism and Italian Futurism, from 1912-1915. Named by Ezra Pound, theorized by T.E. Hulme, and led by Percy Wyndham Lewis, Vorticism drew around it an avant-garde Bohemian circle in London in direct opposition to the Bloomsbury Group: In addition to Lewis its artists included the painters Edward Wadsworth, David Bomberg and William Roberts, and the sculptors Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Jacob Epstein. April 11: Surrealism Part I Surrealism was the only major avant-garde to emerge in Paris between the two World Wars. It was founded in 1924 as a literary movement, but it quickly became, from 1925, primarily a movement in the visual arts, with Max Ernst, Joan Mirò, Jean Arp, André Masson, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy and Alberto Giacometti among its early protagonists. Building on abstraction and the Dada movement, Surrealism colonized a new territory for art – unconscious mental activity, charted for them by Sigmund Freud. April 25: Surrealism Part II Around 1929, Surrealism became predominantly a figurative pictorial style in contrast to the contemporary abstraction of artists such as Kandinsky and Mondrian. The painters Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux and Max Ernst, as well as the film maker Luis Buñuel, illustrated dream imagery inspired by the psychoanalysis of Carl Gustav Jung. Their bizarre fantasies connect them in art history to the likes of Hieronymus Bosch, Richard Dadd, Max Klinger, Arnold Böcklin, and Giorgio de Chirico.

Mondays at 11 a.m. • March 28; April 11 and 25 $25 per lecture