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Welcome to Lifelong Learning at Wofford

Fine Arts/Literature   

Throughout the academic year, we offer classes, special events, social events, travel and clubs for the community to enjoy and explore. We offer two levels of participation with our program: annual memberships and friends. Annual memberships are $60 and enable members to register earlier each term for classes and events, receive a $10 discount on all classes along with a handful of other great benefits.  Friends of Lifelong Learning enjoy all of our offerings without the added perks of an annual member. To learn more, click on the Add/Renew Annual Membership.

Note: Annual members receive $10 off any class. Special events are excluded from this offer.

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  • International film festival with Omanii Abdullah

    • This offering is full. Click the add to waitlist button below.
    • Days: Th   Date: 3/19/2026 - 5/7/2026
      Times: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM        
      Location: Central United Methodist Church (opens in new tab) Education Building Shepherd Room

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      This class will look at some groundbreaking international films. Participants will explore award-winning films through lively discussions. The class is open to suggestions of film titles. If you have a foreign film or subject matter you would like to share with others, please share the title. The instructor will contact you for film suggestions, if you have any, prior to class start date. Viewer discretion advised.

       

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  • Watercolors with Amy with Amy Weaver

    • This offering is full. Click the add to waitlist button below.
    • Days: M   Date: 4/13/2026 - 5/4/2026
      Times: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM        
      Location: Central United Methodist Church (opens in new tab) Education Building Activities Room

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      Working from photographs, we’ll be painting my “Moo” cow cocktail series, suitable for an intermediate level watercolor student. Attending all four three-hour sessions is expected. A supply list is attached. Students will be responsible for all their materials for the class. Spring 26 LLL Supply List 

Website Tip! There is no charge to add yourself to the waitlist. Adding yourself helps us know the interest for the offering and in many cases we can add more seats or schedule another section, please add yourself!
 

  • Jane Austen: Two Novels  with Sally Hitchmough

  • This class is in session. Contact the office at 864-274-2917 for more information.
  • Days: Tu   Date: 3/17/2026 - 5/5/2026
    Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM        

    Jane Austen's witty style has been loved by readers for over 200 years, and the plots of her novels continue to be engaging. This course pairs the "bright and sparkling" "Pride and Prejudice," her first completed novel, with "Persuasion," written during her last illness. Whether you are a die-hard Austen fan or a curious new reader, class discussion can enhance your appreciation of this writer long valued for her wry social commentary and deep understanding of human nature. This is a 6 week class. 
 

  • Principles and foundational skills of drawing  with Steve Jones

  • This class is in session. Contact the office at 864-274-2917 for more information.
  • Days: Tu   Date: 3/17/2026 - 5/5/2026
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM        
    Remember when you had fun drawing as a child but never got past the fifth grade learning new drawing skills? Perhaps you stopped altogether yet continued to love art. What if you could go back and learn some new drawing skills from a fun, structural approach? We'll cover topics of line, shape, value, perspective and composition and learn how to "see" to draw. Join this opportunity to enjoy creating art again by learning from an award-winning art teacher. This class is for all who want to enjoy art! You will learn by doing and will have fun assignments to discuss in a classroom setting. A simple supply list of materials you will need will be included on your registration receipt. Note: If you took this class in the fall term, you may also register for this term if you would like a refresher. 
 

  • Print the legend: The westerns of John Ford  with Dean Thompson

  • This class is in session. Contact the office at 864-274-2917 for more information.
  • Days: M   Date: 3/16/2026 - 5/4/2026
    Times: 11:15 AM - 1:15 PM        
    Just as Ansel Adams pointed his still camera toward the Tetons and Sangre de Cristo Mountains and captured their raw, stark beauty, so John Ford pointed his motion picture camera at Monument Valley and, with help from John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Mae Marsh and other members of his stock company, put together the most enduring narratives of The American Western. We'll watch Ford's masterpieces from "Stagecoach" (1939) to "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962) and come to discern the motifs and complexities undergirding these rugged stories. We may even be moved to toast them with two fingers of rotgut.
 

  • Saving Vincent: The making of an artist’s legacy  with Ana Maria Wiseman

  • This class is in session. Contact the office at 864-274-2917 for more information.
  • Days: M   Date: 3/16/2026 - 5/4/2026
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM        
    When Vincent van Gogh died in 1890, his sister-in-law Johanna Bonger van Gogh began the work that would make him immortal. In Joan Fernandez’s new novel "Saving Vincent" (2025), Johanna’s voice finally takes center stage. This course explores the art, letters and love that shaped Vincent’s posthumous fame through reading the novel, viewing related documents and lively conversation. We’ll pair selections from the novel with Van Gogh’s paintings and excerpts from his and Johanna’s letters, tracing how grief, gender, and artistic vision intertwine. No background in art history required—just a love of good writing and good company.
 

 

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