Education and Public Programs
Exhibition-related
artist talks, community forums, and a variety of art classes for adults and youth are offered year round through the Calvin R. Vander Woude
Lively Arts Series.
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| Three-Way Conversations:
Curating the Next Wave
Six fine art professionals from around the Bay Area have been invited to Sonoma over three Saturdays to discuss current themes and trends that they have observed emerging from the next generation of artists. Projects taking place at their own institutions will also be discussed, providing insights into their curatorial practices, as well as practical advice for new artists embarking on their careers. Three separate discussions:
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| Saturday, February 11, 3pm
Kevin Chen, Program Director, Intersection for the Arts, and Karen Kienzle, Executive Director, Palo Alto Art Center. Moderated by Kate Eilertsen.
SVMA Members: $12
General Public: $20 (includes museum admission) |
| Saturday, March 3, 3pm
Robert Wuilfe, Curator, di Rosa, and Sharon Maidenberg, Executive Director, Headlands Center for the Arts. Moderated by Margie Maynard.
SVMA Members: $12
General Public: $20 (includes museum admission) |
| Saturday, March 17, 3pm
Catharine Clark, Catharine Clark Gallery, and Cathy Kimball, Executive Director, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Moderated by Michael Schwager.
SVMA Members: $12
General Public: $20 (includes museum admission) |
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Ideas as Art
Jan. 10, Feb. 28 and April 3, Tuesdays 2–4pm
Instructor: Ann Wiklund
Join Ann Wiklund in this three-part series exploring twentieth century artists such as Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Yoko Ono, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, David Ireland, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, and Jenny Holzer who challenged our notions of art making, the supremacy of the art object, and art as a marketable commodity, all while asserting the importance of the artist’s idea and the utilization of language.
SVMA Members: $60, General Public: $75 |
| Art History Seminar: Sol LeWitt
March 5 and April 9, Mondays, 2–4pm
Limited to 12 participants, Instructor: Ann Wiklund
Sol LeWitt is considered to be one of the seminal, American conceptual artists. He produced over 1200 “wall drawings,” which he designed but rarely executed himself. Whether working in two or three dimensions, LeWitt argued that the most important aspect of conceptual art was the idea behind it. “When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”
SVMA Members: $40, General Public: $50 |
| | | | Painting and Mixed Media
January 25, Feb 1, 8, 15 and 22, Wednesdays 6–8:30 pm
Instructor: Anne Pincus
Expand your artistic comfort zone! Anne Pincus will guide students through the exploration of new acrylic painting techniques while experimenting with layering various paper and photographic collage elements and drawing mediums such as oil pastel and water-soluble crayons. Students will hone their own sense of color, texture, and composition, while looking at and learning from the work of boundary-pushing artists of the last century including Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Lee Krasner and others. Experienced and beginning painters are welcome. Supply list will be provided upon registration.
SVMA Members: $135, General Public: $150
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| Meet your new iPhone
Tuesdays, Jan. 17 through 31, 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Instructor: Jim Witous
Learn how to navigate the basic iPhone operations in this three-part class, including contacts, calendar, email, surfing the web, and using the camera. Manage your photos, explore the app store and learn to install new apps. Explore Maps and find out how your phone knows exactly where you are and how to get to where you need to be.
SVMA members: $50 series
General Public: $65 series
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| Getting Starting with your iPad
Tuesdays, Feb. 21 through March 6, 5:30–6:30 pm
Instructor: Jim Witous
Bring your iPad to this three-part workshop where we'll learn the basics of iPad – from settings, organizing and multi-tasking to surfing the web, checking email, watching movies, listening to music, reading books and more. Also learn to shoot HD video, take photos and discover the range of applications available to you in the App Store.
SVMA members: $50 series
General Public: $65 series
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| | | | Material Culture Workshops
What better way to beat the winter doldrums than to get together with some fun, interesting people in a relaxed, inspirational setting and make cool stuff? Starting January 22, the SVMA studio will be buzzing with creative activity every Sunday from noon until 4, where you can do just that. Meet a different artist and work and play with a new set of materials each week. Pre-register or drop in to one, two, or all 10 workshops.
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| Sunday, January 22
12 noon-4pm
Host Artist: Sasha Duerr,
Materials: local wool and natural color
SVMA Members: $20, General Public: $25
includes materials
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| Sunday, January 29
Host Artist: Kate Ortolano,
Materials: handmade embellishments with linen, wool, cotton & silk
SVMA Members: $20, General Public: $25
includes materials
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| Sunday, February 5
Host Artist: Jill Valavanis,
Materials: lashed sticks
SVMA Members: $20, General Public: $25
includes materials
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| Sunday, February 12
Host Artist: Nicole Markoff,
Materials: fabric collage
SVMA Members: $20, General Public: $25
includes materials
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| Sunday, February 19
Host Artist: Gayle Manfre,
Materials: wood and scrap assemblages
SVMA Members: $20, General Public: $25
includes materials
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| Sunday, February 26
Host Artist: Ann Pincus,
Materials: scrap plastic mobiles
SVMA Members: $20, General Public: $25
includes materials
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| Sunday, March 4
Host Artist: Lindsay Whiting,
Materials: cut-photo collage
SVMA Members: $20, General Public: $25
includes materials
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| Sunday, March 11
Host Artists: Jane Antee and Katrina Mayo Smith, Materials: mixed-media and found object
boxes
SVMA Members: $20, General Public: $25
includes materials
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| Sunday, March 18
Host Artist: Samantha Buller, Materials: paper mosaic.
SVMA Members: $20, General Public: $25
includes materials
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