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  • Pittsburgh History to World War II  In-Person
  • Speaker: Virginia Montanez
    Dates: 7/1/2025 - 7/29/2025
    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 5
    Modality: In-Person
    Fee: $0.00

    This course is designed to give lifelong learners a better understanding of the forces that saw Pittsburgh’s transformation from a resource-rich wilderness into an industrial powerhouse whose people and innovations helped build America. This course will present Pittsburgh’s history to the start of World War II as more than two-dimensional, grayscale ideas about rivers, coal, and steel. Rather, the city’s history is presented in a vibrant way that not only tells the stories of the names we know—Braddock, Forbes, Carnegie, Rooney—but digs deeper to pull from the margins the voices whose stories we haven’t yet heard.

    This course will meet in person July 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.

 

 

  • Self-Taught Artists: Their Stories and Their Art  In-Person
  • Speaker: Rebecca Carpenter
    Dates: 7/1/2025 - 7/29/2025
    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 5
    Modality: In-Person
    Fee: $0.00

    This course will introduce members to the genre of self-taught art and the artists who create it. Formerly called "outsider art," these artists paint, sculpt, sew, and decorate spaces with minimal to no influences from outside sources. Their materials are commonly what is at hand: found objects for sculpture, cardboard for canvases, and cast-off scrap for garden churches. We will look at the lives and work of a number of artists, many of whom had little to no education and lived in economically and socially challenging environments. The artists include Bill Traylor, the Quilters of Gee's Bend, Howard Finster, Nellie Mae Brown, and Australian aboriginal and Inuit artists, among others.

    This course will meet in person July 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.

 

 

  • Disinformation and the Fight for Democracy  Online
  • Speaker: Ralph Bangs
    Dates: 7/1/2025 - 7/29/2025
    Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 5
    Modality: Online
    Fee: $0.00

    Lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories are used to deny reality and promote authoritarian interests in America today. This course identifies the anti-democratic truth-killers, examines how they create and amplify disinformation and manipulate the population, and discusses how to win the war on truth. We will rely on the book, On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy (McIntyre, 2023), and other sources.

    This course will meet online July 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.

 

 

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