Scarsdale Adult School E-News
January 2022
Art Appreciation in Winter 2022
Scarsdale Adult School has a full assortment of Zoom-based art appreciation courses coming up in the next few weeks to keep you warm and engaged throughout the winter days. Transport yourself virtually to explore museum exhibits, view carefully curated private collections, take a deep dive into a particular artist or movement, or go on an armchair tour of New York's galleries and public installations.
This Monday, students will have an opportunity to explore Faith Ringgold's Story Quilts and Paintings (10956) with Jeffrey Mishur, just a few weeks before a comprehensive exhibit featuring over sixty years of her work opens at the New Museum on February 17, 2022. This ninety-one year old artist made headlines recently after requesting that her first public art commission, a 1972 mural at Rikers Island dedicated to incarcerated women in the complex, be relocated to the Brooklyn Museum out of safety concerns. That piece will be on loan to the New Museum for its exhibit.

On Tuesday, students may enjoy Museum Virtual Visit: Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror (10904), a retrospective held concurrently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and at the Whitney Museum of American Art through mid February. Riva Blumenfeld will examine the many highlights of Jasper Johns’s seven-decade-long career.

On Thursday, Shilpi Chandra introduces a new two-session class on the Lunar New Year in Images and Objects (11002). Delve into the 12 Chinese zodiac signs through art history.
Then on Friday, journey behind the lens for three unique classes on famous female photographers. Ronnit Vasserman begins her study with Cindy Sherman (10968). Subsequent weeks explore Francesca Woodman (10969) and then Diane Arbus (10970).

Page Knox continues her series on the Artists of the Non Finito, examining unfinished works in the context of the artists' other artwork, focusing on major painters and sculptors from the Renaissance up to the modern/contemporary era. Upcoming classes focus on Jacques Louis David (10890), Théodore Géricault (10891), Claude Monet (10892), Berthe Morisot (10893), Auguste Rodin (10894), and James McNeill Whistler (10895).
Armchair tours of Battery Park City (10905), Art in Transit (10906) showcasing installations throughout NYC's subway stations, and Contemporary Galleries of New York City (10907) are still to come. Explore Images of Honest Abe (10957), Andy Warhol’s New York City with Rick Evans (10949), Edward Hopper and the American Scene (10958), or the Art of Mark Rothko (10959). Or if fashion is your preferred art form, step back in time to revisit the Costumes of Downton Abbey (10960).

Register now and try something new in 2022!
New Classes Added
  • Getting Started, A Writing Workshop (11045) February 1, 2022
  • Postural Therapy Movement (11048) Wednesday, February 9, 2022
  • Walking Tour: Grand Central Terminal (11047) new section Tuesday, March 29, 2022
  • Book Discussion: Crossroads (2021) by Jonathan Franzen (11046) new section Thursday, March 31, 2022
Changes and Postponements
Below is a recap of changes impacting upcoming classes. Classes with postponed start dates remain open for registration. Please do sign up early so that we know to contact you directly about any change in plans.
The start dates for the following classes have been postponed:

Arts & Crafts
  • Knitting for All Levels (10972): new start date is Tuesday, 1/25/22
  • Knitting for All Levels (10971): new start date is Thursday, 1/27/22
  • Watercolor Painting (10922): new start date is Thursday, 2/3/22, with a newly added skip date of Thursday, 2/24/22

Games
  • Beginner Bridge (10988) (online): new start date is Wednesday, 1/26/22
  • Beginner Bridge (10980): new start date is Thursday, 1/27/22; postponed again to Thursday, 2/3/22
  • Bridge: Supervised Play (10979): new start date is Tuesday, 1/25/22; postponed again to Tuesday, 2/1/22
  • Beginner Canasta (10936) (online): new start date is Wednesday, 1/26/22; please note that class WILL meet on Wednesday, 2/23/22, although other SAS classes will be observing a February break
  • Let's Play Mah Jongg: Beginner Series (10926): new start date is Wednesday, 2/2/22, with a newly added skip date of Wednesday, 2/23/22
  • Let's Play Mah Jongg: Supervised Play (10927): new start date is Wednesday, 2/2/22, with a newly added skip date of Wednesday, 2/23/22

Fitness
  • Body Sculpting (10919): new start date is Thursday, 2/3/22
  • Zumba (10929): new start date is Wednesday, 1/26/22
  • Zumba (10928): new start date is Friday, 2/4/22

Writing
  • Moments that Shine: Paying Attention to the Tiny, Mini, and Micro (10924): new start date is Wednesday, 2/2/22, with a newly added skip date of Wednesday, 2/23/22
The following class has shifted from in-person to online instruction:
  • Watercolor Painting (10964)

The following classes will continue as originally scheduled, however the remaining January class dates will occur via Zoom and in-person instruction will resume in February:

The following classes have postponed the remainder of their January class dates and will extend their meeting schedule into March:
  • Beginner Canasta (10934)
  • Canasta: Supervised Play (10935)

The following class has a change to the weekly calendar:
  • Book Discussion: Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks, a Modern Family Saga (10937): added skip date is Wednesday, 1/26/22; make-up class will be on Wednesday, 2/9/22
Additional changes to the schedule, venue, or COVID protocols may occur throughout the term. Please use our secure, online system for registration to be certain that you are seeing the most current status of the courses.
Classes Starting in the Next Two Weeks
All class listings are for the Eastern Time Zone. Course numbers appear in parentheses.
Week of January 23, 2022
Architecture
  • Art Deco at Home and Abroad: Worldwide Dissemination of Art Deco (11037)
  • History of Central Park: Gates, Sculptures, Buildings, The North Park, and Landscape (10983)
Art Appreciation
  • Faith Ringgold's Story Quilts and Paintings (10956) -- please note that a comprehensive exhibit featuring over sixty years of her work will open at the New Museum on February 17, 2022
  • Museum Virtual Visit: Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror in Philadelphia and New York (10904)
  • Artists of the Non Finito: Jacques Louis David (10890)
  • Lunar New Year in Images and Objects (11002)
  • Female Photographer Cindy Sherman (10968)

Arts & Crafts
  • Knitting for All Levels (Tues: 10972 and Thurs: 10971)

Current Events and Politics
  • Middle East at a Critical Turning Point (10908)

Fitness and Dance

Games
  • Beginner Bridge (10988)
  • Bridge: Keeping Up with Conventions and Strategies for Play of Hand: Responsive Double (11007)
  • Beginner Canasta (10936)
  • Canasta Strategies: Special Hands (10977)

History and Culture
  • New York's Great Department Stores: Siegel-Cooper (11017)
  • Time Travel to America 1972 (10995)

Literature, Film, and Television
  • Book Discussion: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (10933)
  • Film Discussion: Interstellar (2014) and Arrival (2016), Mind Game Journeys of the Universe (11003)
Week of January 30, 2022
Architecture
  • Secrets of San Francisco's Chinatown (10815)
  • Art Deco at Home and Abroad: Art Deco and American Decorative Arts (11038)

Art Appreciation
  • Artists of the Non Finito: Théodore Géricault (10891)
  • Female Photographer Francesca Woodman (10969)

Arts & Crafts
  • Watercolor Painting (10922)

Fitness and Dance

Games
  • Beginner Bridge (10980)
  • Bridge: Supervised Play (10979)
  • Bridge: Keeping Up with Conventions and Strategies for Play of Hand: In Which Hand Should You Trump Your Losers? (11008)
  • Let's Play Mah Jongg: Beginner Series (10926)
  • Let's Play Mah Jongg: Supervised Play (10927)
History and Culture
  • New York's Great Department Stores: Macy's (11018)
  • Tudor London Lost and Found (10932)

Literature, Film, and Television
  • Legendary Comedy of Bob Newhart (10996)
  • Living to Tell: Reading Contemporary Memoirs (10912)

Natural Sciences

Writing and Storytelling
  • Getting Started, A Writing Workshop (11045)
  • Moments that Shine: Paying Attention to the Tiny, Mini, and Micro (10924)
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Catalog of Winter Classes
All upcoming classes are listed in our Printer-Friendly, Interactive Version of our Winter 2022 Catalog. New classes are added regularly.

Class times are for the Eastern Time Zone. Please check regularly for additional options to keep you engaged and learning, whether from the comforts of home or through our expanding number of in-person options.
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