IN PERSON at APL and ZOOM

Everyone who registers will receive a link to ZOOM in their email on the morning of the class, and may attend either in-person or by ZOOM if desired.

A mosque made out of chain link fencing. A gasoline pump that morphs into a man committing suicide. A jet fighter emerging threateningly from the ceiling of a beautiful mosque. Works like these demonstrate the wonderful creativity of Saudi conceptual artists and reveal fascinating insights into a country known primarily for its fundamentalist form of Islam and its oppression of women.

Loring Danforth is a retired professor of anthropology at Bates College. In 2012 he spent a month in Saudi Arabia with a group of Bates students, an experience chronicled in his book Crossing the Kingdom: Portraits of Saudi Arabia. In 2016 he co-curated an exhibition of contemporary Saudi art at the Bates College Museum of Art.

IN PERSON at APL

Students will learn the basics of making greeting cards. I will discuss materials, tools, and measurements. Each student will make at least two cards. (Each student who wishes to make cards should bring a ruler, scissors and a double-sided tape runner, or a liquid glue appropriate for paper, such as Tombow liquid glue.)

Jo has always enjoyed crafting, and for the past 20 years or so, she’s been into paper crafting, mainly ornaments. That has led her to card making, selling the cards at craft fairs and donating them to charities. She looks forward to helping others make their own cards. Jo is semi-retired and looking forward to full retirement soon.