New Art Center online: Contemporary Explorations
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. This course for advanced painters offers the chance to develop individual work within a group context. Individual painting and drawing development is facilitated through one-on-one discussions with the instructor and group…
New Art Center online: Painting Beyond Foundations
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Intermediate and advanced students explore and develop personal themes while pushing their skills to the limit. Demos, group exercises, color theory, advanced painting techniques with regular critique and conversation support and…
New Art Center online: Ceramics – Intermediate/Advanced
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Students of all levels explore the creative possibilities of ceramics. Demonstrations and hands-on instruction cover wheel throwing, handbuilding, and surface treatment including glazing. Each semester includes one group project or technique…
New Art Center online: Monotype Printing with a Press
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. Build skills in monotype printmaking. Experiment with techniques using an etching press: additive and subtractive printing, chine colle, trace monotype, overprinting, stencils, and direct painting on a plate. Explore ways of…
New Art Center online: Painting Believable Light – “Glow”
New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United StatesNew Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings. What makes a painting “glow?” What is the glowing quality that appears in the work of many master painters? How does an artist make this happen? To communicate a feeling of…
Newton Free Library online: Raising Anti-Racist Kids
ONLINE United KingdomJoin us for the first in a multi-part educational series on being an anti-racist. Cosponsored by the FORJ (Families Organizing for Racial Justice), Harmony Foundation and Newton Human Rights Commission. This program is part of Overdue: Confronting Race and Racism in Newton, a city-wide read and series of events and conversations on race and racism. Join the community by reading either How to Be…
An online series on the history & nature of Jewish choral music
ONLINE United KingdomThese audio and video podcasts, presented by Zamir Chorale of Boston, can serve as an introduction to the field of Jewish Choral Music. But caveat lector, these are not comprehensive; they provide only an introduction to the field. Readers may follow up with the many texts and websites that are listed elsewhere in this website:…
Newton Art Association: Shelter in Art
ONLINE United KingdomShelter in Art is a virtual exhibition of work created by Newton Art Association members during the COVID-19 crisis. Click here to view this incredible exhibit online through October 31.
Scandinavian Cultural Center online: “Trespassing Bergman” Screening
ONLINE United KingdomJoin the Scandinavian Cultural Center for an online screening of the 2013 documentary Trespassing Bergman, available throughout the month of October. Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman built his house in the mid 1960’s, choosing to withdraw from Stockholm, to an island in the Baltic Sea. Throughout his life, the exact location of the house was…
Newton Free Library: Early Voting
Newton Free Library 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, United StatesVote Early In Person If you are a registered voter in Newton, you can vote early in person at the Newton Free Library’s Druker Auditorium, every day starting on Saturday, October 17 until Friday, October 30, 2020. Voting will be open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 5:00 pm; and Saturdays and Sundays 10:00 am…