Art History Classes in Online

The Los Angeles Center of Photography is thrilled to produce an ongoing series on the history of photography. The series, typically offered the second Friday of each month, will be divided into the genres of photography. This year features street photography, still life, landscape, documentary, and more. Schedule: Friday, February 12, 3 pm, PST – Street...

Award winning cabaret performer and member of the 92Y Music Faculty, Michael Kirk Lane curates a series of conversations about the art form of cabaret in New York City. Welcoming performers, directors, and journalists, these conversations will delve into the history and current state of this unique performance style. Each conversation will also include...

Use this time at home to clarify your understanding of art movements, themes, artists and art forms throughout history. Learn the chronology and the connection between art and the historical, cultural and political context in which it was made. Each week will be a different lecture covering a specific subject presented through a slide show and thematic...

Why do we create museums and endeavor to have our own art collections? What are the historical precedents?  This course is one in a series of five that traces the emergence of each of the following art forms: Painting, Drawings + Works on Paper, Fine Art Prints, Sculpture, and Ceramics. Discussions include the emergence of the art collector with...

Abstract Painting Critique and Discussion (Intermediate/Advanced) This online course will provide students with a forum to show and discuss their studio work for technical and conceptual feedback. These critiques will be supplemented through presentations and discussions on historical artists’ images, customized to hue with the work presented...

The Melt & Pour Soap Making Experience—at home! In this live, virtual workshop, you will learn the basics of melt and pour soap making, general techniques, and even a little history. We'll go through the use and benefits of the ingredients and learn about different recipes that students can use at home or give as gifts. This workshop is suited...

Conversations with a Curator is a new series in which Curators from a broad range of institutions will discuss how they became a curator, their work and exhibition history, how they conceive of and curate exhibitions and what they are looking for in the artists they want to exhibit. The aim of these talks is to pull back the curtain as to how curators...

Join Elody Gyekis for an exploration of drawing methods using animals as subject. Students will have the chance to experiment with charcoal, graphite, ink, and watercolor. Elody will cover gestural techniques exploring motion, posture, and proportion; as well as more refined drawing methods exploring the various surface textures and expressions found...

Learn to make sophisticated prints at home with linocut, a variant of woodcut printmaking. By carving, inking, and impressing the linoleum block on paper you will explore the world of printmaking and create beautiful printed editions from home. You will learn image preparation, carving techniques, printing methods, and editioning, and will explore...

Why do we create museums and endeavor to have our own art collections? What are the historical precedents?  This course is one in a series of five that traces the emergence of each of the following art forms: Painting, Drawings + Works on Paper, Fine  Art Prints, Sculpture, and Ceramics. Discussions include the emergence of the art collector...

All ZOOM Classes include Powerpoint lessons,  demonstrations & Individual critique for that week on Fridays & access to private Facebook group where additional links, teaching & communication are posted, also art work is shared & connection with other artists happens.  This is a proposed calendar and subjects may change as...

Think of a few of the most memorable photos and dig them out. What stories do they tell? Great images are impressive because, in addition to their craft and composition, they tell a story. In this workshop, author and photographer Mark Chen will introduce strategies for sorting through your personal experiences and interests to create new works of...

A photographer's work can be a precarious, unreliable barometer for their legacy. Photographs made today are inevitably responses to ones made prior, such that photographers live on through the continually evolving practice of making pictures. In this six-week course, students of all experience levels will be invited to learn about the myriad of...

Our memories are part of what forms us and helps us understand who we are. They are embedded in the landscape, our relationships and even the objects we surround ourselves with. How does an object or particular landscape convey its history and suggest that echo of past experience? How do we use the tools we have as photographers, to help us transform...

From the beginning, still life has been presented as humble in scope and subject, but this quiet genre is filled with the dirty secrets of existence: impermanence, tragedy, faith, science, memory, opulence, life, and death. In this class with Zane York students will develop a painting using strategies derived from the history of still life, with focus...