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- Architectural Communication: From Neo-Classical Manors to Art Nouveau Gardens NEW!
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Online registration closes 1 week before the class start date.
Take a journey through the early modern period in architectural history - from the monumental stature of neo-classical manors to the fantastical sculptures of art nouveau gardens. This course explores how architecture changed over centuries, shaped by shifting cultures, philosophies, and artistic ideals. Along the way, you'll look at key buildings that define each era, get to know the ideas behind their appearances, and draw connections between structures that were built worlds apart.
By the end of the course, you'll have a solid understanding of the cultural backgrounds, informing major architectural movements, be able to identify significant buildings and their symbolic features, and recognize how architecture from different times and places connected in surprising ways. No background in architecture is needed - just curiosity and an appreciation for the built world.
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- Exploring Colored Pencils
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Online registration closes 1 week before the class start date.
Did you know that when you are completely immersed in your current action, you are meditating? Creating art is an example of an activity that teaches you how to focus on, and live in, the moment. Join us to experience the joy of creating amazing art with the humble but versatile medium of colored pencils. Learn simple tips, tricks and techniques for creating rich and vibrant artwork, which can be applied to all subjects including florals, still-life, landscapes, portraits, abstracts and more. No drawing experience or expertise necessary. Instruction will be tailored to suit each individual's skill level.
Supply List
For the first day of class, please bring whatever brand of paper and colored pencils you already have for initial mark-making exercises. Supplies will be discussed in detail on the first day of class.
- 9x12 Drawing paper: Strathmore, Canson, Arches, and others make great paper suitable for colored pencil artwork. As long as the paper has some tooth and body, any paper will be fine
- 24 pencil set (minimum): Prismacolor Premiere Colored Pencils, Caran d'ache, Crayola, Derwent, Faber-Castell are great options, but any brand that you already have will work just fine
- #2 B pencil: Regular graphite pencil for taking notes etc. No need to buy a specific brand
- Kneaded eraser
- Hand-held metal sharpener
- 9x12 Tracing paper
- Clip board
- Drafter's Brush
- Fixative Spray (final fixative, not workable)
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- Flash Fiction in Contemporary Literature NEW!
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Item: G33295
Fee: $119.00
Dates: 4/23/2026 - 6/11/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 8
CEUs: 1.2
Building: BVONL
Room: Live Online
Address: ,
Instructor(s): David Summers
Online registration closes 1 week before the class start date.
In this course, participants will read and discuss 40 recently published short stories that demonstrate how much can be accomplished in 1,000 words or fewer. These works, often described as flash fiction, explore life in all its complexity - its ambiguities, contradictions, and unexpected turns - through language that is precise and intentional. Because of their extreme brevity, such stories require exceptional discipline from their writers, with every word carrying weight. As participants engage with these texts, they will develop an appreciation for flash fiction as a distinct literary form, learn to recognize how skilled writers achieve depth and meaning without excess, and gain insight into what distinguishes the strongest short stories from those that feel like condensed novels. All readings for the course are freely available online.
Online courses require an internet connection and the ability to interact both through audio and video using either a web cam/microphone, speakers/headset using a computer or via a mobile phone connection. Depending upon the class, students will need to download either Zoom or Microsoft Teams apps to attend and participate in class sessions. There is no additional cost for these applications.
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- Views of the News
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Item: G32163
Fee: $119.00
Dates: 4/23/2026 - 6/11/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: Th
Sessions: 8
CEUs: 1.2
Building: BVONL
Room: Live Online
Address: ,
Instructor(s): Charles (Ted) Watts
Online registration closes 1 week before the class start date.
This participative discussion class looks at national and international current affairs each week. Discussions include politics and other topic matters suggested by the group. Events are considered based on their effects today and into the future, historical context and leadership.
Online courses require an internet connection and the ability to interact both through audio and video using either a web cam/microphone, speakers/headset using a computer or via a mobile phone connection. Depending upon the class, students will need to download either Zoom or Microsoft Teams apps to attend and participate in class sessions. There is no additional cost for these applications.
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- Exploring Colored Pencils
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Registration is closed.
Supply List
For the first day of class, please bring whatever brand of paper and colored pencils you already have for initial mark-making exercises. Supplies will be discussed in detail on the first day of class.
- 9x12 Drawing paper: Strathmore, Canson, Arches, and others make great paper suitable for colored pencil artwork. As long as the paper has some tooth and body, any paper will be fine
- 24 pencil set (minimum): Prismacolor Premiere Colored Pencils, Caran d'ache, Crayola, Derwent, Faber-Castell are great options, but any brand that you already have will work just fine
- #2 B pencil: Regular graphite pencil for taking notes etc. No need to buy a specific brand
- Kneaded eraser
- Hand-held metal sharpener
- 9x12 Tracing paper
- Clip board
- Drafter's Brush
- Fixative Spray (final fixative, not workable)
No class 2/12.
Did you know that when you are completely immersed in your current action, you are meditating? Creating art is an example of an activity that teaches you how to focus on, and live in, the moment. Join us to experience the joy of creating amazing art with the humble but versatile medium of colored pencils. Learn simple tips, tricks and techniques for creating rich and vibrant artwork, which can be applied to all subjects including florals, still-life, landscapes, portraits, abstracts and more. No drawing experience or expertise necessary. Instruction will be tailored to suit each individual's skill level.
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