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Cultivating connections to help seniors and people with disabilities age and thrive at home.

Cultivating connections to help seniors and people with disabilities age and thrive at home.

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Art Viewing Adventures: New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit): 1920s German Art (Virtual)

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Please Note: the class originally scheduled for today, ‘Closing Thoughts on Diego Rivera’s Pan American Unity Mural’, has been postponed until a later date. More details will be available soon.

Firouzeh Nourzad joins us to discuss german art during the period between the end of World War I and the Nazi Party’s rise to power in Germany (1919-1933), which saw the birth of a new movement in art informed by the social, economical and political realities of post-war Germany.  Labeled as New Objectivity, the movement rejected expressionism and did away with romanticism and emotionalism in many areas of art.

The artists approached their art from a straightforward and often sordid point of view.  Footprints of New Objectivity could be seen in a variety of artistic genres in that period of time: visual arts, photography, architecture, film, and literature. Otto Dix, Max Bechmann, George Grosz and August Sander were amongst the many prominent artists in this field.  The movement ended in 1933 when Hitler and his National Socialists party came to power and declared such works of art as “degenerate art.”

(Image: The Internationale by Otto Griebel 1929-30)

HOW TO JOIN THE EVENT:

To join by phone, dial 888-475-4499 (toll-free) or 669-900-6833 (local). Enter Meeting ID: 870 7204 8045 then press # twice.

To join with video, click this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87072048045 to register and join. Wait in the “waiting room” until the activity is ready to start.

To create a friendly environment and minimize interruptions, we will close the activity to new participants 15 minutes after the start time. The above link will work on your tablet or your computer. You’ll be prompted to download a Zoom app the first time you use Zoom. If you’re using a PC or Mac, you can join from your web browser without using the Zoom software.

Let’s Make Stuff with d’Arci: Flower Power (Virtual)

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April Showers Bring May Flowers! Flowers are universal symbols of beauty, but they also symbolize comfort, love, and affection. Most artists choose flowers as a subject simply because they are readily accessible and a pleasing challenge to paint. In this class, we will look at arte floral through the ages to get some tips, tricks, and ideas for our own representation of nature’s most celebrated beauties.

Go gather up some art supplies, and let’s GROW some new skills and get our SPRING on!

Image Credit: Caroly Gavin, https://www.carolyngavin.com/paintings

Questions? Want to share your project? Email d’Arci! drivebypie@gmail.com  

The syllabus for class can be found here.

 

Let’s Make Stuff with d’Arci: The EYES Have It! (and the Nose, Mouth and Ears) (Virtual)

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Human portraits can be challenging, and capturing the right expression is crucial, especially the eye, nose, and mouth features where the slightest alteration of line or shape can completely alter the attitude or appearance of your subject.

In this class, we will look at these pesky parts right in the proverbial eye, and nose around in all the various ways other artists have rendered these important elements of facial characterization. Let’s face these tricky bits together! (Image: “Never Tell” Mixed media on panel  d’Arci Bruno 2009)

For this class, you will need a pencil, paper, erasure, a photo of a face and a mirror!!

Class syllabus can be found here.
Questions? Email d’Arci at drivebypie@gmail.com.

HOW TO JOIN THE CLASS:

To join by phone, dial 888-475-4499 (toll-free) or 669-900-6833 (local).
Enter Meeting ID: 865 6747 4200, then press # twice.

To join with video, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/86567474200 to register and join. Wait in the “waiting room” until the activity is ready to start.

To create a friendly environment and minimize interruptions, we will close the activity to new participants 15 minutes after the start time.

Let’s Make Stuff with d’Arci: About Face (Virtual)

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A good portrait is not just a visual representation of a person; it reveals something about their essence. … A strong portrait captivates viewers, draws them into the artwork, and grabs their attention, causing the viewer to stop and wonder about the person depicted. Capturing that “thing” is a whole lot more complicated than just accurately rendering features, but hey, we have to start somewhere! In this class, we will look at what makes a great portrait and the fundamentals of building a human head. So go grab a pencil, a ruler and some paper, a reference photo or a mirror and let’s get a HEAD of the game! (Photo Credit: Lucian Freud Portrait of John Deakin, 1963)

The class outline can also be found here. Questions? Email: drivebypie@gmail.com.

HOW TO JOIN THE CLASS:

To join by phone, dial 888-475-4499 (toll-free) or 669-900-6833 (local).
Enter Meeting ID: 865 6747 4200, then press # twice.

To join with video, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/86567474200 to register and join. Wait in the “waiting room” until the activity is ready to start.

To create a friendly environment and minimize interruptions, we will close the activity to new participants 15 minutes after the start time.

Art Viewing Adventures: San Francisco Photographers Greta and Manu Schnetzler (Virtual)

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Greta and Manu Schnetzler have collaborated for more than 20 years to create intriguing images on a range of subjects that include night photography, nature, and, most recently, scenes on San Francisco Bay. They are members and organizers of the Studio Nocturne San Francisco group and have had their photographs shown nationally and internationally.
Led by Rodney Paul, local museum guide, we will look at some of their captivating images and discuss their process of portraying everyday subjects in captivating ways that lead us to see them in a new light.

Image Credit: Greta and Manu Schnetzler

HOW TO JOIN THE CLASS:

To join by phone, dial 888-475-4499 (toll-free) or 669-900-6833 (local).
Enter Meeting ID: 865 6747 4200, then press # twice.

To join with video, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/86567474200 to register and join. Wait in the “waiting room” until the activity is ready to start.

To create a friendly environment and minimize interruptions, we will close the activity to new participants 15 minutes after the start time.

Drama with Friends: Three Short Plays by Geetha Reddy (Virtual)

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Time to exercise your acting chops! Or just enjoy listening to three short plays by Bay Area playwright Geetha Reddy. If you want to perform, you must be available for rehearsal on the night of the performance, March 15, from 4:30-6; if you want to read a part, email judygoddess@gmail.com by March 8.

HOW TO JOIN THE EVENT:

To join by phone, dial 888-475-4499 (toll-free) or 669-900-6833 (local). Enter Meeting ID: 851 4426 8263 and Passcode: 053046.

To join with video, click this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/w/85144268263 to register and join.

Wait in the “waiting room” until the activity is ready to start. To create a friendly environment and minimize interruptions, we will close the activity to new participants 15 minutes after the start time.

The above link will work on your tablet or your computer. You’ll be prompted to download a Zoom app the first time you use Zoom. If you’re using a PC or Mac, you can join from your web browser without using the Zoom software.

Beautiful Neighborhood Project Brightens Cayuga

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One of the beautiful aspects of the pandemic has been seeing people’s creativity come out. In finding solutions and new ways to do things. Creativity in art and using our personal abilities to help others get through in so many small ways.

Community Living Campaign has continued beautifying neighborhoods while keeping everyone involved safe and healthy. One of those projects has been brightening up the stairway in Cayuga that extends Naglee Street.

Many neighbors have, over time, painted fun designs on the risers and most recently installed mosaics.

“During shelter in place, working on the stairway mosaic has been a bright light during dark times and an emblem of our resilience,” said Chris Dillon, a longtime neighborhood resident and president of the Cayuga Improvement Association.

It’s been quite the transformation from an unsightly, unsafe-feeling stairway , said Patti Spaniak, our Community Connector for the neighborhood. Older adults avoided using it even though it’s a great shortcut to Pacific Super.

Working closely with the Cayuga Improvement Association, we secured grants from Excelsior Collaborative Community Grants to paint a few murals. We got local seniors’ input on all the themes and installations. We scheduled community cleaning, hand-rail painting and weeding projects, often with the help of San Francisco Public Works. The Supervisor’s office also supported the project.

Seniors also painted the 30-stair risers, including some with scenes from Sponge Bob and Nemo that children like to try to find.

More recently,  the artist of the Kenney Alley project nearby, Kim Jensen, completed the mosaic project. The designs also reflect Demi Braceros, the artist who carved many statues in Cayuga Playground.

What’s more, other similar neighborhood art projects are being considered.

Let’s Make Stuff with d’Arci: Landscapes-HO! (Virtual)

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Landscape art portrays the great outdoors; scenes of rolling hills or meadows, fields, mountains, lakes, the seaside, and beyond. Landscapes are one of the principal genres of subject in Western art, and these scenes of the natural world can be real or invented, and humans, (if introduced at all) typically serve as minor elements in the work. Go grab some art supplies, a photograph or magazine or just look out ‘yer window and let’s have some fun together!

Full Class Outline Here. Share your class project or get the complete outline after the class at: drivebypie@gmail.com.

HOW TO JOIN THE EVENT:

To join by phone, dial 888-475-4499 (toll-free) or 669-900-6833 (local). Enter Meeting ID: 865 6747 4200, then press # twice.
To join with video, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/86567474200 to register and join. Wait in the “waiting room” until the activity is ready to start.

To create a friendly environment and minimize interruptions, we will close the activity to new participants 15 minutes after the start time. The above link will work on your tablet or your computer. You’ll be prompted to download a Zoom app the first time you use Zoom. If you’re using a PC or Mac, you can join from your web browser without using the Zoom software.

Drama with Friends: Three Short Plays by Ruben Grijalva (Virtual)

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Time to exercise your acting chops! Or just enjoy listening to three short plays by Bay Area playwright Ruben Grijalva. If you want to perform, you must be available for rehearsal on the night of the performance, February 16, from 4:30-6. If you want to read a part, email judygoddess@gmail.com by February 8.

To join by phone, dial 888-475-4499 (toll free) or 669-900-6833 (local).
Enter Meeting ID: 851 4426 8263 and Passcode: 053046.
To join with video, click this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/w/85144268263 to register and join.

Wait in the “waiting room” until the activity is ready to start. To create a friendly environment and minimize interruptions, we will close the activity to new participants 15 minutes after the start time.

The above link will work on your tablet or your computer. You’ll be prompted to download a Zoom app the first time you use Zoom. If you’re using a PC or Mac, you can join from your web browser without using the Zoom software.

Art Viewing Adventures: Stories Photographs Tell (Virtual)

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Often, famous photographs we know and love have interesting stories behind them. Museum guide Rodney Paul will be joined by Robert Tat, who will show a few examples and tell us about how these pictures came to be made. This is a session sure to enhance your enjoyment of these favorite images.

Rob last joined Rodney in October to discuss his lifelong love of photography. In 1996, he established the Robert Tat Gallery in San Francisco, which deals exclusively in photographic art Over a 10-year period, the Gallery mounted 43 exhibitions before Rob became a private dealer. He is also a local museum guide and regularly conducts tours of photography as well as other art exhibitions.

(Image: “The Steerage” by Alfred Stieglitz, 1907)

Rodney has been leading Zoom-based art tours long before shelter-in-place, as a way to share art from a distance. In his tours, he provides information to help viewers mine the artworks for meaning based on their own experiences and perceptions.

 

To join by phone, dial 888-475-4499 (toll free) or 669-900-6833 (local).
Enter Meeting ID: 865 6747 4200, then press # twice.

To join with video, click this link: https://zoom.us/j/86567474200 to register and join. Wait in the “waiting room” until the activity is ready to start.

To create a friendly environment and minimize interruptions, we will close the activity to new participants 15 minutes after the start time.

The above link will work on your tablet or your computer. You’ll be prompted to download a Zoom app the first time you use Zoom. If you’re using a PC or Mac, you can join from your web browser without using the Zoom software.

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