In-person Historic Preservation Walking Tours SUNY Westchester Peekskill • 27North Division Street Peekskill NY10566• 914-606-7300 5 New! New Rochelle Residence Park Residence Park is one of the earliest residential parks containing excellent examples of Queen Anne and Shingle style homes. We will also see a John Russell Pope designed church, a college with an 1855 Gothic “castle,” the homes of notable residents such as Lou Gehrig, playwright Robert Anderson, Jay Leno, a presidential mistress, and more. Tour Guide is Barbara Davis, New Rochelle City Historian and Co-Director of Westchester County Historical Society. Attendees will assemble in front of Presbyterian Church of New Rochelle, 50 Pintard Ave, in New Rochelle. CE-HIST 2167PE, $40. Sat., July 15, 9:30-11:30 am. #9332 OFF-SITE Architectural History Tour of Newburgh This day-long walking tour will include a visit to Washington’s Headquarters State Historic Site, the Crawford House Museum, and a tour of Newburgh's many other iconic buildings. Designers such as Downing, Vaux, Olmsted, Withers, and others will be discussed. We will also examine the tragic period of Urban Renewal when many buildings were lost along with the preservation movement that prevented further destruction in the 1960s and 70s. Johanna Porr Yaun, Orange County Historian, instructor, Historic Preservation Certificate. Attendees will assemble in front of Beekman Arms, 6387 Mill Street (Rte 9) in Rhinebeck. CE-HIST 2148PE, $55. Tuition not including independent lunch. Sat., Aug. 19, 10:00 am-4:00 pm. #9288 OFF-SITE Community Arts for Adults www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill For information about faculty at the Center for the Digital Arts, visit www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill New! Westchester Poetry Workshop The Westchester Poetry Workshop meets online weekly for eight sessions and is focused on the understanding, writing, and publishing /marketing of poetry. Student poets will mix with veteran and published poets and engage with Guest Poets to further their knowledge of and confidence in the writing, presentation, submission and publishing of poetry. Class features will include explanation of poetical styles and techniques with readings, readings by Guest Poets, student poetry writing and comment /courteous criticism of the writing by Guest Poets and fellow students. The importance of Poetry Groups—in-person and online, publishing opportunities with methodologies, promotion of published work, and dealing with rejections will also be discussed. CE-WRITG 2128PE, $300. Wed., June 7-Aug. 2 (skip 7/5), 6:00-8:00 pm. #9328 REMOTE Painting En Plein Air for Adults Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. Rain dates TBA. Focus will be on color mixing, light and shadow, and composition. Students will be informed of the great plein air traditions of the Impressionists and the Hudson River School painters. Various approaches to landscape painting will be introduced, including water-mixable techniques in oil painting. CE-ART 2020PE, $277. Sat., June 3-July 29 (skip 7/1), 10:00 am-1:00 pm. #9329 OFF-SITE Mixed Media Printmaking for Adults Discover innovative ways to make handmade prints in addition to how technology such as computers and jet printers make printing contemporary. Make a portrait print based on a photograph, drawing from observation, and imagination. Printmaking projects include tee shirts, posters, and artwork to frame. The instructor will introduce soft linocut, monotype, stenciling, and how to marbleize paper, to create prints on rice paper and other printmaking papers. CE-ART 2334PE, $311. T/Th, June 20-Aug. 1 (skip 7/4), 6:30-8:30 pm. #9330IN-PERSON Painting and Drawing for Adults Get your ideas out of your sketchbook! Students will enjoy painting in the studio in class and outdoors in an interactive environment. In this class, students will learn from discussion, group critique, examples of art while honing art skills of observation, gesture, composition, value, color mixing, and brushstroke, etc. The teaching artist demonstrates painting and drawing techniques for portraiture, representing the human form, and landscape, abstraction. CE-ART 2146PE, $277. M/W, June 26-Aug. 7 (skip 7/3), 6:00-8:00 pm. #9331IN-PERSON Student artwork
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