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Sessions: 3Class Date(s): 05-22-2024 to 06-05-2024Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 12:30 PM → 2:00 PMInstructor: Penny Foley and Diane VirziTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterThe class has two instructors to accommodate both right-handed and left-handed students. The instructors will explain how to make the ribbing for the cuff of the mitten, how to form the thumb, and how to shape the mitten using increasing and decreasing. Participants will be given a basic pattern that mainly uses the single crochet stitch and takes less than... read more
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Sessions: 3Class Date(s): 06-05-2024 to 06-19-2024Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:30 PMInstructor: Grace Seiberling, Art HistorianTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterIn the late 19th century photographers interested in claiming photography as an art sought to distinguish themselves from the growing number of amateurs by producing distinctive works. At the same time Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine were documenting the slums of New York and child labor, using photography as a catalyst for social reform. Please register for this... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 05-23-2024 to 05-23-2024Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:30 PMInstructor: Joe Struble, Retired Collections Manager, George Eastman HouseTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterThe photographer Steven Halpern wrote, “The family albums of my great-grandparents are filled with serious and severe people looking as if they were bringing their souls to judgement. The snapshots in the albums of my parents show Mom and Dad throwing snowballs at each other in the storm of 1947.” This serves as evidence that after 1880, a series of... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 08-15-2024 to 08-15-2024Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 11:00 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Ann CunninghamTerm: 2024-2Location: Oasis RochesterJoin Ann Cunningham as we discuss "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston. 'Their Eyes Were Watching God," an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for... read more