Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Sonoma State University

OLLI Newsletter Gray Matters Check out the OLLI Spring Newsletter Gray Matters with exciting highlights on Instructors, Students and information on the upcoming Summer virtual classes. Please click on the link to read the newsletter... https://olli.sonoma.edu//files/graymatters_spring2021_2.pdf

OLLI Art Club TOMORROW 35: Thirty-Five Artists for Thirty-Five Years Museum of Sonoma County Wednesday, May 19 10:00 am to 11:30 am... Now, on the occasion of the Museum of Sonoma County’s thirty-fifth anniversary, they are pleased to present a sampling of artworks from the collection in this new exhibition. The artworks selected for 35: Thirty-Five Artists for Thirty-Five Years explore a broad range of media and styles. Of particular interest are themes that are recurring in Museum of Sonoma County’s collecting practices, such as landscape and the environment, social commentary, mixed media experimentation, and abstraction. The Art Club is fortunate to have as our Host and Tour Guide the Director of the Museum, Jeff Nathanson to review 35 Years of Art. Lunch to follow for those interested. Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events. Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on Art Club activities. The Art Club has lots of fun meet up trips, lectures or just information on what is happening in the Art World that you and/or a friend can go to on your own. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html http://web.museumsc.org

OLLI Art Club 35: Thirty-Five Artists for Thirty-Five Years Museum of Sonoma County Wednesday, May 19 10:00 am to 11:30 am... Now, on the occasion of the Museum of Sonoma County’s thirty-fifth anniversary, they are pleased to present a sampling of artworks from the collection in this new exhibition. The artworks selected for 35: Thirty-Five Artists for Thirty-Five Years explore a broad range of media and styles. Of particular interest are themes that are recurring in Museum of Sonoma County’s collecting practices, such as landscape and the environment, social commentary, mixed media experimentation, and abstraction. The Art Club is fortunate to have as our Host and Tour Guide the Director of the Museum, Jeff Nathanson to review 35 Years of Art. Lunch to follow for those interested. RSVP now by sending an email to [email protected] . Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events. Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on Art Club activities. The Art Club has lots of fun meet up trips, lectures or just information on what is happening in the Art World that you and/or a friend can go to on your own. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html http://web.museumsc.org

OLLI Spring After Hours BYOB (Bring your own beverage)! TOMORROW, Thursday, May 13 @ 4:00 p.m. Zoom Link for After Hours at: olli.sonoma.edu under Announcements Time to kick back, enjoy your favorite Winter beverage and catch up and chat with your OLLI friends.... Please go to the OLLI Website and click on the Zoom link to join https://www.olli.sonoma.edu Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on OLLI Classes and activities. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ https://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html

OLLI Art Club Legion of Honor May 7, 2021 August 29, 2021 Last Supper in Pompeii: From the Table to the Grave... In AD 79, the Bay of Naples was rocked by the fiery eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii and nearby villages and farms were completely buried under pumice and hot ash, which killed thousands in the midst of their daily activities. Plaster casts of these bodies are a dramatic reminder of this disaster but, like a fly caught in amber, what was preserved gives us a picture of what life was like in a thriving Roman city. The exhibition brings us back into this world by focusing on everyday life and especially on food and drink. Along with the pots, pans, and other paraphernalia in the distribution, preparing, and serving food, this exhibition includes glorious works of art, which reveal the splendor and luxury loved by the wealthy Romans who called Pompeii their home. The Art Club will be going to Museum of Sonoma County to see 35: Thirty-Five Artists for Thirty-Five Years on Wednesday, May 19 from 10 am to 11:30 am. You can RSVP now to attend by sending an email to [email protected] . Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events. Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on Art Club activities. The Art Club has lots of fun meet up trips, lectures or just information on what is happening in -the Art World that you and/or a friend can go to on your own. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html https://www.legionofhonor.famsf.org

Reading Art: Your GPS for Visual Literacy Wednesdays - 1:00 3:00 pm - January 27 March 3 Instructors Heidi Chretien, Ph.D., and Dr. Charlie Goldberg How many times have you said, I love looking at art but, what does it mean? How do I move past looking into really seeing? Reading art is like learning a foreign language only easier and to practice it, one needs only to visit a local gallery or museum.... This interactive course will be team taught by two of OLLI's popular professors, Heidi Chretien and Charlie Goldberg. Together they will guide you as you learn the basic tools and insights into learning how to make sense of what you are seeing; as you learn and think about line, color, light, space and ultimately, composition and design. Each class focuses on one aspect of the visual dialogue as they develop over the centuries. Together you will see and understand what links the Old Masters with contemporary artists. The elements remain the same but each artist recreates and reassembles according to their own vision. You the viewer become an active participant in this visual dialogue and as Marcel Duchamp once said, "there is no Art without an audience". Please go to OLLI Home page on the web http://olli.sonoma.edu/ to register for this exciting virtual class Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on OLLI Classes and activities. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html

OLLI Art Club Art Spot with Linda Loveland-Reid - The True Story: Gauguin Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 1:00 to 2:30 pm Sebastopol Center for the Arts ... Paul Gauguin was born 170 years ago in the cradle of French anarchy, and yet, what do we really know about this man? His art, boldly charged with color, speaks of love but has roots in the darker recesses of the human mind. A wife and five children and a stockbroker career are juxtaposed against his passion to paint. Did he find the earthly paradise that he sought? What really happened between Gauguin and Van Gogh? His modern style pitted Gauguin against the norms of society. In 2015 a Gauguin sold for $300 million. Let’s explore this enigmatic artist and his deeply sensual paintings. To register go to sebarts.org and click on Current and Upcoming Events https://www.sebarts.org/cla/art-spots-the-true-story-gaugin Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events. Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on Art Club activities. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html www.sebarts,org

OLLI, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Sonoma State University For Students 50 years and older. No Tests, No Grades. Just Learning for the Sake of Learning. Friday, February 19 10:00 to 11:30 am Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Instructor Linda Loveland-Reid. ... Gertrude Stein, novelist, poet and avid art collector, ‘modestly’ commented that without her, some of the artists and writers that she promoted might not have emerged as they did to take over the art world, e.g., Matisse and Picasso. Gertrude coined the phrase lost generation to describe Hemmingway and his circle. It was a time of assault on all the arts. With her brothers and life partner Alice B Toklas, they lived in Paris during the early movement of progressive art, stubbornly acquiring works that the general population found wildly odd. This is an in depth look at the author who wrote: a rose is a rose is a rose, the enigmatic Gertrude. Registration for Classes begins in December Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on OLLI Classes and activities. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html

The Family in Global Perspective: A Gendered Journey Wednesdays 10am 12 noon starting, Wednesday, January 27 March 3 Instructor Elaine Leeder The course will focus on the study of the family in its various manifestations, both in the US and other parts of the globe, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America. With a focus on how the family is malleable and elastic, we will look at how economy, history, and religion influence the way the family functions in various pa...rts of the globe. Dr. Leeder brings a wealth of knowledge from travelling to 65 countries examining family life in each of those countries. Please go to OLLI Home page on the web http://olli.sonoma.edu/ to register for this exciting virtual class Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on OLLI Classes and activities. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html

OLLI Art Club National Color Day. Celebrating the Power of Color and the Decorative Motifs of Batik Happy National Color Day! The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco celebrates the power of color, as seen in the traditional Indonesian decorative motifs of batik the technique of patterning cloth through the application of wax and the eye-catching graphics. ... Batik colors are unique due to the way certain wax blends will "crackle" during handling, allowing lines of color to come through on resisted areas. Few art forms have become as closely associated with a single location as the textile tradition of batik. Although the technique is known in other parts of the world, in Indonesia this art form has reached the highest level of complexity. Please click on the link below to get a glimpse of how Javanese artisans make batik and learn more about their refined and *colorful* techniques. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLTmu5m5bFU&t=3s Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events. Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on Art Club activities. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html www.asianart.org

OLLI Art Club Henri Rousseau’s The Dream Henri Rousseau’s The Dream is at the MOMA in their permanent collection.... The Picture shows a woman asleep on the couch that is dreaming she has been transported into the forest, listening to the sounds from the instrument of the enchanter, Rousseau was a self-taught painter who set the precedent for Surrealist artists. There is also a poem about The Dream. Click on the link below to see the video https://www.bing.com/videos/search The OLLI Art Club hopes to have some exciting events planned once classes resume - field trips to museums, films, visits to artists’ studios and updates on what is happening in Sonoma County and the Bay area that you can go on your own or with friends. Until then we will continue meeting virtually. Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html www.moma.org

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) Opens TODAY, Thursday, October 22 October 22 - November 8, 2020 in the Sculpture Garden of the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa Regular Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 10:00am-1:00pm*... *Saturday, October 31 - Monday, November 2: Evening Hours Only (4:00-7:00pm) Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a joyous remembrance of the lives of family members and loved ones who have passed and a celebration of the cycle of life. The holiday is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd throughout Latin America, but is more closely associated with Mexico, where it originated. This year, the Sonoma County Museum's annual Día de los Muertos exhibition is presented in the Museum's Sculpture Garden for the first time. The outdoor exhibition echoes the setting of many Day of the Dead observances in Mexico which often take place in cemeteries. The exhibition provides a place to remember the people we have lost, whether in 2020 or in years past. The exhibition features altars and artwork. Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events. Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on Art Club activities. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html www.museumsc.org

OLLI Art Club Thursday, October 22 1 2:30 pm Sebastopol Center for the Arts Virtual Class on Zoom by Linda Loveland-Reid... Modernism Comes to Town Artists Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko exploded onto the California scene and pushed painters out of their comfort zone. Abstract Expressionism became the norm. An association called Sanity in Art declared modern art a Communist movement. Bay Area artists rebelled. Figurative Art emerges as a Bay Area tradition. Artists will include: Hassel Smith, Sam Francis, Frank Lobdell, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, and David Park. Check out www.sebarts.org for more details to register or use this link: https://sebarts.doubleknot.com//art-spots-modernis/2685397 Registration is being offered on a sliding scale from $5-$50. Any amount will be very much appreciated by Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events. Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on Art Club activities. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html www.sebarts.org

OLLI Art Club The de Young Open The de Young Open is on view now through January 3, 2021. The de Young Open is a way to celebrate and support local artists. Anyone from the nine Bay area counties who self-identified as an artist could submit their work for consideration. The de Young Museum received artwork from over 750 Bay Area artist and they are on view in a unique wall-to-wall, floor to ceiling presentation at the de Young Museum. Showcasing of these Bay Area artist wh...o will also be able to offer their pieces for sale and retain 100 percent of the proceeds. Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events. Be sure to Like the OLLI Facebook page and check it out for upcoming announcements on Art Club activities. https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html https://deyoung.famsf.org/

OLLI Art Club Threads of Jewish Life: Ritual and Other Textiles from the San Francisco Bay Area The Jewish Contemporary Museum Re-opens Saturday, October 17 Following the California Gold Rush, Jewish immigrants in San Francisco laid the foundation for community life, creating benevolent societies, synagogues, and schools across the city. At the same time, they influenced the values and construction of the new metropolis, supporting education, the arts, and social causes. ... Due to the 1906 earthquake and fire, however, very little material evidence of Jewish life in nineteenth-century San Francisco survives. The relationship of Jewish culture to textiles and their importance in reconstructing the Jewish history of the city cannot be overestimated. Check their website to get advanced timed admission tickets. The OLLI Art Club hopes to have some exciting events planned once classes resume - field trips to museums, films, visits to artists’ studios and updates on what is happening in Sonoma County and the Bay area that you can go on your own or with friends. Until then we will continue meeting virtually. Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html www.thecjm.org

OLLI Art Club The Art of the Louvre The Louvre Museum is the world's largest museum. The museum opened in 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. The collection was increased under Napoleon and the museum was renamed Musée Napoléon, but after Napoleon's abdication, many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners. See some of the highlights of the collection from the various curat...orial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings. Click on the link below to view the video https://www.bing.com/videos/search The OLLI Art Club hopes to have some exciting events planned once classes resume - field trips to museums, films, visits to artists’ studios and updates on what is happening in Sonoma County and the Bay area that you can go on your own or with friends. Until then we will continue meeting virtually. Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html

OLLI Off- Season - October/November 2020 Don’t miss out ! It’s not too late to register for: * Fork In the Road: The Elections of 2020 - with David McCuan, Friday’s, Oct. 16-30 - 10-11:30 am... * Current Economic Outlook- with Mike Arnold Friday’s, Nov. 6-20- 10-11:30 am For complete course descriptions or to register online go to: olli.sonoma.edu or call 707-664-2691.

OLLI Art Club I was, I am, I will be by Chanel Miller opening at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco on Saturday, October 3 The Asian Art Museum will re-open on Saturday, October 3. Admission to the museum will be free from Oct. 3 through Oct. 12. Book timed tickets online in advance. Timed tickets will reduce capacity and you will have plenty of space to enjoy an intimate experience at the Asian Art Museum and see their collection and exhibitions. Click on the link b...elow to hear Chanel Miller talk about her work I was, I am, I will be. https://exhibitions.asianart.org//chanel-miller-i-was-i-a/ The OLLI Art Club hopes to have some exciting events planned once classes resume - field trips to museums, films, visits to artists’ studios and updates on what is happening in Sonoma County and the Bay area that you can go on your own or with friends. Until then we will continue meeting virtually. Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html www.asianart.org

OLLI Art Club Marin’s Rock Scene Marin Contemporary Museum of Art is Open and check their website for advance ticketing and more information.... The exhibit of Marin’s Rock Art that will bring music memories alive. Marin’s Rock Art Scene documents Marin County as ground zero to the explosion of rock music in the late 60s, with local musicians, artists and music venues that were central to the movement. Starting with the Grateful Dead’s first Marin home in Olompali to the halls of Mt. Tamalpais high school where Tupac Shakur roamed, viewers will enjoy fifty years of rock history and rock art. The show features photography, vintage posters, original artwork and priceless memorabilia. The OLLI Art Club hopes to have some exciting events planned once classes resume - field trips to museums, films, visits to artists’ studios and updates on what is happening in Sonoma County and the Bay area that you can go on your own or with friends. Until then we will continue meeting virtually. Want to become a member of the Art Club? Simply email [email protected] and you will be put on the Art Club email list and receive notices for club events https://www.facebook.com/OLLIatSSU/ http://web.sonoma.edu/exed/olli/index.html www.mainmoca.org