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Expanded Historic Preservation Certificate Electives Community Arts for Adults Comic Illustration for Adults – 30 Hrs This class focuses on the fundamentals of sequential storytelling in comics and graphic. Students will develop short stories, create character sheets, environments, scripts, and professional comic pages. In our journey industry-standard software will be used as well as traditional tools to design content across multiple mediums. The objective is for students to produce a portfolio piece at the professional level that can be used to secure freelance or industry-based opportunities. This class will have bi-weekly critiques. CE-ART 2360PE, $440. #27317 IN-PERSON Sat., Feb. 10-Apr. 27 (skip 3/30 & 4/20), 1:00-4:00 pm. Painting & Drawing for Adults – 24 Hrs 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, $287. #27322 IN-PERSON Mon., Feb. 5-Apr. 22, 6:30-8:30 pm. Mixed Media Printmaking for Adults – 24Hrs 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. 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, $322. #27318 IN-PERSON Tues., Feb. 6-Mar. 26, 6:30-9:30 pm. Museum Best Practices & Exhibition Design Get real world gallery experience working directly with museum staff. Students will have the opportunity to speak directly with curators, museum educators, art handlers, graphic designers, and the founder of KinoSaito art center. The focus of this course is getting hands-on experience working in a non-profit gallery setting. On completion of the course students will have a fuller understanding of everything it takes to make an exhibition come to life. This class will be off-site at the KinoSaito Museum 115 7th St. in Verplanck, New York. CE-ART 2358PE, $330. #27319 IN-PERSON Thurs., Feb. 22-Apr. 4 (skip 3/14), 5:30-8:30 pm. Painting En Plein Air – 24 Hrs 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. This class will be off-site. CE-ART 2020PE, $287. #27323 IN-PERSON Sat., Mar. 23-May 18 (skip 3/30), 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Historic Preservation These two courses are electives for our Historic Preservation Certificate but can be taken independently. The one-year, non-credit certificate program begins in the fall and serves students and professionals interested in establishing credentials in the area of Historic Preservation in a multitude of job sectors: building trades such as woodworking and stone masonry, as well as areas such as historic site management, artifact conservation, and more. Visit www.sunywcc.edu/historic-preservation-certificate for information on the certificate. Program tuition is $2,215. NEW! Black, Latino, Indigenous and Asian American Heritage: Inclusive Views in Architectural Preservation By examining a series of historic sites as case studies, including at least one field trip, the class will consider the role race has had on the built environment and how race continues to shape key narratives within the preservation community. Investigate both nationally recognized and forgotten sites, from the precolonial era to the modern day. By reframing architectural history through a sociological lens, this class establishes how structural racism and conceptions of traditionally marginalized groups have shaped the American landscape. Meets via Zoom. CE-HIST 2170PE Taken individually, $443. REMOTE Wed., Jan. 24-Apr. 24, 6:30-8:30 pm. NEW! Historical Archaeology The course is an introduction to historical archaeology which encompasses artifact identification, laboratory processing and field techniques. Students will conduct onsite field work including digging for artifacts as well as artifact identification at the Voris-Gedney Archaeological Site adjacent to the Bird Homestead and Rye Meeting House at 624 Milton Road, Rye, New York, and lab work in the classroom. Documentation of historic sites will also be explored. CE-HIST 2168PE Taken individually, $443. IN-PERSON Thurs., Jan. 25-Feb. 29 & Apr. 25 (skip 2/22), 6:30-8:30 pm. OFF-SITE Field Work: Sat., Mar. 23-April 27 (skip 3/30, 4/20, rain date 5/4), 8:00 am-12:00 noon. SUNY Westchester Peekskill • 27North Division Street Peekskill NY10566• 914-606-7300 10

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