Although classes and events normally held at the SCA facility remain postponed until further notice, we’ve been organizing and releasing an array of digital offerings, such as interactive art history classes, streaming practicums, and virtual gallery exhibits. You can find this growing list of option on our Upcoming Events page. We hope you’ll join us in this experiment!
Please check back regularly for more information as our online presence grows, and as local and state restrictions begin to change.
For questions or inquiries related to our Adult Arts Education Program, please contact: Carolyn Wilson at info@sebarts.org, (707) 829-4797, ext. 1004.
July 23 – 1:30-3 p.m.
ART SPOTS: America Paints ItselfReeling from the Crash of 1929, artists painted the American scene. Maynard Dixon, Thomas Hart Benton, Diego Rivera, and photographer Dorothea Lange gave the painter’s voice to those struggling. Coit Tower murals were painted during the San Francisco Maritime Strike. The Golden Gate World Exposition celebrated two new bridges. Artists like Millard Sheets worked in the new California Style. Ansel Adams advanced photography to exciting highs.
Art Spots is a series of multi-media lectures by Linda Loveland Reid. Each lecture is around an hour long, followed by a moderated question and answer session. This, the fourth lecture in the series, is set for June 25 from 1:30-3 p.m. on Zoom.
Linda Loveland Reid lectures on Art History for SSU and Dominican Universities for their Osher Lifelong Learning programs. She is a painter, theater director and novelist. Her degrees are from SSU.
Sebastopol Center for the Arts is excited to introduce a new series of online art talks by famed Dutch Art Historian Drs. Kees Kaldenbach. whose credo is “Telling short stories in front of works of art so that clients may look at this art with more intense understanding.”
Kees lives and works in the Netherlands, and since Covid-19 has become an international “cyber docent”. This way he continues to share his knowledge and love of Dutch art with the world. Kees is a highly regarded museum docent, author, teacher on society and history, cultural mediator and will teach us via ZOOM, live from Amsterdam.
Join us at 11 am (8 pm in Amsterdam, NL) on July 30th 2020 for a live hour-long lecture on the life and art of Vincent van Gogh, including a short time for audience Q&A.
“If one takes the helicopter view, and if one divides Vincent van Gogh’s entire timeline from 1853 to 1890, it is clear that only the last three years gave rise to fantastic world class art. Everything made before is rather dull, brown and grey with line drawings that would make an art professor cringe. So, in this talk I jump right into the fabulous Landscape at La Crau near Arles, and we admire the Vase with Irises, made in the madhouse, and the works made after release in Auvers-sur-Oise, such as the Corn Field with Crows. From there we backtrack to his humble beginnings.” -Kees Kaldenbach.
August 27, 1:30-3 p.m.
ART SPOTS: Modernism Comes to TownArtists 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.
Art Spots is a series of multi-media lectures by Linda Loveland Reid. Each lecture is around an hour long, followed by a moderated question and answer session. This, the fourth lecture in the series, is set for Aug. 27 from 1:30-3 p.m. on Zoom.
Linda Loveland Reid lectures on Art History for SSU and Dominican Universities for their Osher Lifelong Learning programs. She is a painter, theater director and novelist. Her degrees are from SSU.
