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92nd Street Y is a prestigious cultural and community center that brings people together through art, entertainment, and conversation. With a wide range of classes and programs, as well as top-notch events and concerts, it offers something for everyone, regardless of age or interest.
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Painting at the Conservatory Water Boat Pond
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Learn the basics of landscape painting in water media at the conservancy water boat pond, where sparkling water, sky, copper roof and model boats provide inspiration. Emphasis is on composition, color, drawing, and capturing time of day. Bring watercolor or gouache. All levels. Supplies needed by all students: (Needed for both media) Brimmed or Visor Hat and Sunscreen Water to drink, lunch (There are also snack bars nearby) Foam core tray -...
Reading Old English with Miller Oberman
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
While Seamus Heaney’s brilliant translation of Beowulf introduced a wider audience to the only Old English epic poem, most contemporary readers have not encountered the fascinating shorter lyrics written in Old English. This course invites readers into the ancient ruins of the English language, moving through some of the most beautiful poems in The Exeter Book, written about a thousand years ago. From the anonymous voices of longing...
Intro to Jewelry
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Learn to create a stack of twisted wire and textured rings, forged bangles and a layered/multi-strand chain necklace with charm shapes and a bezel set cabochon.
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Drawing Flowers & Other Natural Forms
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Full Course Name: Drawing Flowers & Other Natural Forms in Pencil & Silverpoint Learn concepts and techniques to guide your drawing of flowers, plants, and other natural objects. The class will start by working in pencil and then introduce students to the subtle, ethereal medium of silverpoint. Material List: Pencils: 4H, 2H, H, HB, 2B (1 of each: “H” pencils are harder, “B” pencils are softer.) Pencil sharpener or straight...
Functional Anatomy and Kinesiology for Dance/Movement
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Full Course Name: Functional Anatomy and Kinesiology for Dance/Movement Therapy Apply kinesiological principles and functional anatomy to dance therapy. Build foundational knowledge on the biological, psychosocial and environmental factors that influence a dancer's current and future health. Explore the musculoskeletal system, common dance injuries, injury prevention, and conditioning for dancers of all ages and levels of participation. Integrate...
Advanced Fiction with Teddy Wayne
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
In addition to workshopping our own fiction, we will read published stories that focus on different elements of craft: showing versus telling, point of view, characterization, dialogue and narrative. When we discuss the class’s creative output, we will strive to isolate these elements as much as possible, homing in on problematic areas. In addition, we will talk about publishing and how to begin a writing career. Novel excerpts are permitted....
Miniature Gouache Painting
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Learn approaches to painting with gouache: a water-based, opaque paint. Explore matte, flat shapes, layered color and optical mixing to capture a warm luminous glow within the still life. For the Supply List, please CLICK HERE
Intro to Wax Carving: Carved Pendant
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Learn the basics of carving wax for Jewelry. For the Supply List, Guidelines and Studio Rules please CLICK HERE
Photographing Family
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Photographing Family Photograph what is closest to your heart: Family. Learn what makes a portrait successful both technically and compositionally. Be exposed to a variety of styled of portraiture through in class lectures and discussions. Join award winning portrait photographer, Karen Haberberg in this intimate class setting as she discusses ambient lighting, on camera flash and off camera flash, light modifiers, locations, how to approach your...
Masterworks of Chamber Music: In Classroom & In Concert
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
This unique course explores specific masterworks in preparation for hearing those same works performed by world-class artists in the 92Y's Kaufmann Concert Hall this season. We look at the works at a broad range of composers—Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Debussy, Poulenc, Kurt Weill, Thomas Ades—through an in-depth musical, biographical and historical lens. The class sessions are complete unto themselves, so the student...
Playwriting with Christina Quintana
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Despite the myth of the “well-made play,” the most innovative theatrical works of our time prove there is no one way to write a great play. In this generative workshop, we’ll explore theatrical texts that challenge the boundaries of genre, experiment with audience invitation, and flood the stage with poetry, all the while pursuing first drafts of our own daring new plays.
Memoir with Anya Yurchyshyn
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Our personal stories are a vital part of who we are. When we explore our stories by writing memoir, we have the opportunity to understand our experiences more deeply and give others a chance to reflect on theirs. In this course, students will produce and share original autobiographical work, examine aspects of craft such as voice, structure and narration, and engage in critical conversations around topics such as memory, truth (and “truth”),...
Unconventional Chains
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Full Course Name Unconventional Chains: Connecting Elements and Clean Movements This class explores chain-making using sheet and wire in a variety of shapes and sizes. Focus on chains aside from the loop-in-loop method of chain making. The class will be explorative and will allow the student to choose their final project.
Reading Ulysses with Michael Groden
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Work through selected chapters of Ulysses and discovery what makes the novel resonate today, with Michael Groden, editor of the James Joyce Archive
Reading the Divine Comedy with Joseph Luzzi
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
What makes Dante’s Divine Comedy such essential reading today, even though it was written seven centuries ago? This course will explore the fascinating world of Dante’s epic poem in all its cultural and historical richness, as we consider Dante’s relation to his beloved hometown of Florence, his lacerating experience of exile, and his lifelong devotion to his muse Beatrice, among many other issues. We will pay special attention...
Basic Six Ballroom
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Explore the basic steps and techniques of dancing with a partner in this introductory class covering waltz, foxtrot, tango, swing, rumba and cha-cha. Please Note: Couples required. Price is per individual.
Reading Elizabeth Bishop with Lisa Goldfarb
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Elizabeth Bishop is a modern North American poet who is hard to identify in terms of a single school of poetry, place, or home. She writes poems linked to her native ground of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, yet she is also a poet who famously writes of travel. Brazil, where she lived for twenty years, was home away from home for her, as was Key West, for a shorter period. New York City, and Paris, too, figure into her poetic geography. The...
Memoir with Wendy Salinger
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Nabokov said that the true purpose of memoir should be to discern and follow “the thematic designs of one’s life.” In that spirit, this class attempts to guide students in the quest to discover what story to tell and how to tell it. Class discussions — of works in progress and of weekly exercises written in reponse to excerpts from classic memoirs — explore elements of craft such as character, description, dialogue and pacing. The goal...
Jazz Workshop
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Expertly led by renowned jazz educator Ed MacEachen, this virtual workshop guides musicians of different levels to hone their improvisational skills and learn new tunes in a relaxed environment! Some music reading capabilities is a must. Bassists, guitarists and pianists should be able to read chord symbols at a minimum and others should be passable readers. The course aims to teach the modes of the major and harmonic minor scales and how they apply...
Advanced Poetry with Patricia Spears Jones
92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
What is poetry and why do we write it, we often ask. But could the question really be, what first brought us to poetry and can we reengage that intense impulse? In answering this (these) questions, we will write simultaneously in different forms, engage with contemporary poetics, survey our work for common elements of style and composition as a way to excavate that first impulse as we explore many ways of assessing each others’ work. Students are...
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