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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.

Let’s Make Stuff with d’Arci: Mountains, Rocks, Trees and Foliage (Virtual)

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Painting and drawing mountains, rocks, trees and leaves can seem challenging because of the myriad of perceived details that are needed to make them look realistic. Join local artist d’Arci Bruno to look at various ways to tackle Mother Nature’s exterior decor and grow your skills to fit your individual style into the artistic landscape.

For this class you will need:
–  Paper, pencil, erasure, water based paints, mixing tray, paint brushes, 2 jars of water, rag
OR
–  Magazines, scissors and glue (if you wish to collage instead!)

Full Class Outline here: Let’s Make Stuff 15 Mountains, Rocks, Trees and Foliage

Questions? Want to share your work? Email d’Arci at drivebypie@gmail.com.

 

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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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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Art Viewing Adventures: Manuel Neri, Joan Brown and the Bay Area Figurative Movement (Virtual)

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Join Rodney Paul, an experienced museum guide, as he discusses the works of Manuel Neri and Joan Browan, central figures in the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Though their marriage was brief, they greatly influenced one another and figured in each other’s paintings and sculptures. Museum guide Drucie Belman will join Rodney to discuss Neri, whose sculptures can currently by seen outdoors at the Shrem Museum on the UC Davis campus. Rodney will discuss Brown’s paintings, including “Noel in the Kitchen,” currently on view at SFMOMA.
(Image: Photograph of Manuel Neri and Joan Brown)

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.

 

Next Art Viewing Adventures Event:  Art Viewing Adventures: Flo Allen: A Favorite Model for Bay Area Artists, 1/11/2021 @ 1pm.

 

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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Let’s Make Stuff with d’Arci: Water Water Everywhere! (Virtual)

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Join local artist d’Arci Bruno for a deep dive into the different approaches to drawing water. Water is a notoriously challenging subject to render, but it is not impossible! Reflections, transparency and movement are just a few of the variables that you will need to consider when creatively taking on this amazing element. Understanding how water works, moves, and interacts with the environment, and then breaking it down into manageable shapes and areas is the key to drawing and painting all forms of water.

Feel free to bring paper, pencils, watercolors, markers, or anything you’d like to play with as d’Arci describes the approaches.

Full Class Outline: Let’s Make Stuff #13 Water Water Everywhere!

Questions? Email d’Arci at drivebypie@gmail.com.

 

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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Art Viewing Adventures: Celebrating Local Artists of the de Young Open Exhibition (Virtual)

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Join Rodney Paul, an experienced museum guide, as he talks to three local artists whose works are featured at the de Young Museum’s Open Exhibition.

The Open Exhibition at the de Young brings together 877 artworks by 762 Bay Area artists and is a testament to the wealth of artistic talent in our region. While seeing so many works can be exhilarating and fun, it can also be overwhelming and hard to focus on individual artists. That’s where Rodney can help! In this program, he’ll be joined Florence de Bretagne, Gérard Buulong, and Jeff Long, three artists whose works are featured in the show.

Rodney will talk to each of these artists and later plan to do individual programs so we can all see more of their artworks and talk in-depth about their creative process. The de Young show is only on display through January 3, and if you’re able to visit, Rodney highly recommends seeing their artworks in person. Each work in the exhibition is numbered, and Jeff has two pieces (35 and 79) and Gérard (674) and Florence (417) both are showing one. (Image: Fred’s Family by Gérard Buulong)

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.

Next Art Viewing Adventures event: Art Viewing Adventures: Manuel Neri, Joan Brown and the Bay Area Figurative Movement, 12/28 @ 1pm.

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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Kitchen Wisdom: Easy Herbal Holiday Gifts from your Garden & Kitchen (Virtual)

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Join Marina to learn about very easy gifts to share with loved ones for the holiday season that involve simple ingredients from your garden and kitchen shelves.

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.

Let’s Make Stuff with d’Arci: Op Art Extravaganza (Virtual)

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Join local artist d’Arci Bruno to learn and create Optical Art! Optical art, or Op Art as it is better known, is an abstract style of art that creates the illusion of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, swelling or warping. Through the use of precision and mathematics, stark contrast, and abstract shapes, these sharp pieces of artwork have a three-dimensional quality that is not seen in other styles of art. Optical Illusions can use color, light and patterns to create images that can be deceptive or misleading to our brains. The information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain, creating a perception that in reality does not match the true image.
(Image credit: Bridget Riley)

For this class you will need: Rulers, Pencil, Markers/ Colored Pencils, Drawing Paper / Colored Paper / Graph Paper, eraser.

Full Class Outline here: Let’s Make Stuff #12 Op Art Extravaganza!

Questions? Email d’Arci at drivebypie@gmail.com.

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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Art Viewing Adventures: How David Park Shaped the Bay Area Figurative Movement (Virtual)

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Join Rodney Paul, an experienced museum guide, for a discussion about David Park.

David Park pioneered the Bay Area Figurative movement in the 1950s, which is now considered the most significant single contribution of the Bay Area to 20th century American Art. Rejecting abstract art, the prevailing art style of the day, Park yearned for the warmth, liveliness and spontaneity, which he felt must be explored through the human figure.

The movement included other celebrated artists that he worked with, including Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown, whose art we will also touch on in our tour.  Rodney Paul will be joined by fellow museum guides Anna Ewins and Bernice Iwamoto to talk about Park’s place in the movement and discuss some of his most stirring images.

A great many Park paintings can be seen now in San Francisco museums.  Our discussion will help you mine them for meaning and give you questions to think about as you view them.

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.