Leonardo Da Vinci, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
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WORLD ART DAY
“Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” Leonardo Da Vinci, artist
World Art Day is an international celebration of art, declared by the International Association of Art (a partner of UNESCO) to promote the diversity of artistic expression, and highlight both the contribution of art in cultural growth and the importance of art and creativity in education. World Art Day is celebrated every year on April 15, the birthday of Leonardo Da Vinci, an artist who perhaps more than any other exemplifies human creativity and artistic expression.
Painter, sculptor, architect, designer, anatomist, theorist, engineer, and scientist, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, born in 1452, created some of the most famous images in European art. Though many of his works were never finished, and even fewer have survived, he influenced generations of artists and continues to be revered as a universal genius.
His Mona Lisa is perhaps the most famous painting in the world, The Last Supper is the most reproduced religious painting in history, and his Vitruvian Man drawing is a global cultural icon. In 2017, Salvator Mundi sold for $450.3 million.
He also conceptualized many ideas that only became reality centuries later. Though his practice was limited by the technology of his day, his imagination had no such restrictions. Ideas of flying machines, armored fighting vehicles, solar power, an adding machine, musical instruments, bridges, mills, water machines, the parachute, the helicopter litter his notebooks. And significant intellectual discoveries in geology, optics, hydraulics, engineering, anatomy, and hydrodynamics demonstrate further the richness of his creative thinking.
Unlike many artists, Leonardo was successful and well known in his lifetime, and his fame and legacy have only grown over the centuries. So, it is appropriate that we celebrate a day of global creativity on his birthday.
World Art Day encourages us all to create something on April 15. Maybe it’s a painting, a drawing, a collage, a song, a poem, or a sculpture. Or perhaps it’s something new in the garden, or maybe something intensely tasty from the kitchen! Let’s share our World Art Day creations together on social media - #worldartday #culturalcenter #keepcapecodcreative.
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Five Hidden Things About Leonardo Da Vinci: |
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Monday-Wednesday, April 19, 20 & 21
Kids Couture – Fashion Illustration
With Grace Emmet
From 10-11:30am
Drawing clothes is so much fun! In this class, kids ages 8-12 will learn and practice skills to improve fashion and character design through art … and learn about the history of fashion and how it has influenced style across time and around the world. Through demonstration and application, students will become more comfortable with technical skills, drawing from imagination, and crafting their own fashion styles!
Kids ages 8–12 years old
$75
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Friday, April 23 from 10am-noon
Decorative Mask Making for Kids
With Nate Olin
Come use found, recyclable materials and objects from nature to create your own unique masks. Call them spirit masks, totems, power animal faces … these are masks as art objects, creations of self-expression, meant to delight and to be displayed.
Kids ages 9 and up
$25 – Member, $30 - Non–Member
Socially distanced – mask required
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Tuesday, April 27 from 9am-12:30pm
Big Brush Painting Workshop
With Joe Gallant
Paint large! Experience the fun, freedom, and spontaneity of using large inexpensive brushes to create paintings. Using big brushes and water-mixable oil or acrylic paints, full-time artist Joe Gallant will demonstrate and guide you through the steps of creating your own seascape or landscape painting that just might become a focal point in your home or office!
New this year! Learn Joe’s Big Brush technique to create both large and medium-size paintings.
$75 – Member, $90 – Non-Member
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Four Saturdays, beginning May 1
Advanced Portrait Drawing and Painting With Livia Mosanu
From 10am-noon
Draw and paint realistic portraits from a live model posing for the class on Zoom. We will have one long pose for the duration of the course as you work in your home studio. This will give the students an opportunity to draw from observation and create a highly finished portrait. The class is best suited for intermediate and advanced students. We will start the class by drawing and carefully observing proportions, gesture, light, and shadow patterns.
$120 – Member, $135 – Non-Member
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Four Tuesdays, beginning May 4
Creative Color Pastel Painting
With Betsy Payne Cook
From 2-4:30pm
Let’s explore ways to shake up your routine color choices and make a statement with your art. This class will review some of the decisions that tend to influence your work (reviewed in an earlier session, "Fooling Around with the Masters," but covered here in greater depth) and will focus on options to remake one of your previous painting or to start a new one with a whole new color palette. We will also continue to look at composition, perspective, and the addition of structures and figures in the landscape.
$110 – Member, $100 – Non-Member
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Saturday, April 24, at 7pm
LIVE! Stream: "From Ella to Elton: A Night of Favorites, with Les Sampou and Ed Grenga"
Join Us Live! Streaming from the Cultural Center of Cape Cod. One of New England's most beloved singer-songwriters, Les Sampou returns to the Cultural Center for an evening of popular music—everything from American Songbook to classic rock—with composer and keyboardist Edward Grenga. Les is an award-winning songwriter and recording artist who has toured nationally and internationally for over twenty five years, producing seven albums for Rounder Records and as an indie artist. Known for her diverse styles (blues, country, rock), smart lyrics, slide guitar playing, and hook-laden melodies, Les now heads up her jazz band “The Dirty Martinis” and writes songs for TV and Film. Ed Grenga is also a multi-talented musician who has worked as a film and TV composer, a songwriter, producer, and arranger for over thirty years. He has scored over a dozen feature films, documentaries and TV shows like This Old House and Married With Children, as well as thousands of soundtracks for Fortune 500 companies. Join Les and Ed as they perform favorites from Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Otis Redding Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, John Prine, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, and Traffic, to name a few.
The performance is free, but donations are greatly appreciated and will benefit the musicians and the Cultural Center's ongoing programming that promotes live music in our community.
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"Railroad Boy" Les Sampou Live at Club Passim |
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UPCOMING CONCERTS
PLEASE NOTE: As we assess the COVID-19 risk on small in-person concerts, we have paused registration. If the shows below are not able to take place in person, we plan on LIVE! Streaming these incredible musicians directly into your living room! Thank you for your patience.
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May 1 - Sergei Novikov
Piano Concert
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May 16 - The Zaks Duo Presents an Afternoon of Cello and Violin |
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GRAB YOUR SHOES AND SAVE THE DATE!
The 19th Annual Run | Walk for the Arts
Benefiting the Cultural Center of Cape Cod
September 25, 2021!
We are optimistic that we will once again run through the beautiful Bass River Neighborhood ...together!
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Thursday, April 22 from 10am-11:30am and
Thursday, April 29 from 11am-noon
Writing Your Own Obituary
With John S. Parke
Have you ever read an obituary and cringed? Perhaps it wasn’t very flattering or didn’t seem to capture the person’s life as you think they would have wanted, or the content was so brief and generic that you were left asking, "I wonder what the real story of that person’s life was?" Why leave the writing of your obituary up to a family member or friend when you can tell your own story? Attend this class and write your own obituary in the company of people who won’t criticize or judge you. In this fun and friendly program, we will look at this interesting tradition, review different styles of obituaries, talk about what makes a good obituary, and go over some common do's and don'ts. Then you'll write your own obituary, which you can choose to share with the group for discussion and feedback, or not.
$35 – Member, $40 – Non-Member
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Tuesday April, 20 & Tuesday, April 27
Great Gardening! Presentations
With Master Gardener Priscilla Husband
From 10am–noon
Spring has sprung, so carpe diem! Join Priscilla from home for this four-part series of essential elements of gardening.
- APRIL 20: “The 411 on Shrubs” - introducing a variety of flowering shrubs and exploring how to include shrubs in landscape designs and how to plant and maintain them.
- APRIL 27: “Now & Forever” - a focused approach to the art of gardening with both perennials and annuals, including instruction on how to achieve continuous flowers throughout the seasons, best planting practices, and maintenance.
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Every Friday from 8:30–9:30am
NO CLASS - April 16
Yoga for Wise Warriors!
With Lees Yunits
Beginners will be taught basics; more experienced will deepen their knowledge, and all will learn varied ways to enhance their knowing. Lees’s background includes many assorted styles of yoga, including hatha, viniyoga, yin and kundalini. Just as important are the invaluable techniques of breath work. Always there will be some form of meditation, as well, whether simple stillness, or transcendental, counting, mantra singing, or guided. The whole of a yoga session depends on joining body work, breath work, and meditation. Not to mention some humor here and there! Whether fast, or slow, all of Lees’s yoga classes intend to move you forward on your Journey to Joy.
$15.00 – drop-in, $75.00 – 6 weeks
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