92nd Street Y
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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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Stanford Compassion Cultivation
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Compassion and self-compassion are the most talked about and rapidly developing topics in psychology and neuroscience today. You can discover them for yourself in this popular eight-week course, which is open to first time meditators as well as more experienced practitioners. No prior knowledge is required. Using the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, meditation, lectures, readings, exercises, and class discussion, students will learn...
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Richard III on Film
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Charismatic evil doers have always been crowd-pleasers and few are as fascinating as Shakespeare’s Richard III. He declares “I am determined to prove a villain,” yet he manages to seduce and entangle other characters and perhaps the audience in his wickedness. This course will consider three brilliant film versions of the play — Laurence Olivier (1955), Ian McKellen (1995) and Al Pacino (1996) — comparing and contrasting...
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Advanced Fiction with Teddy Wayne
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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....
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Dynamic Core: Drawing the Figure from the Inside Out
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Using Michelangelo as our inspiration, explore how form and energy in a figure drawing springs from the "core" of the figure: the head, rib cage and pelvis. Learn the basic structures of these forms and how to relate them to one another to get exciting and original figure drawings. The class will work from a live model to identify anatomical landmarks and to see how surface muscle ties the core forms together.
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Homer's Odyssey
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Composed sometime between the seventh and eighth centuries B.C., Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest works of world literature and the ancestor of virtually every narrative that involves a difficult journey home. The longing to return home is for Odysseus is the longing of a man to recover his identity as a king, husband, and father after having spent ten years in the Trojan war. The effort to return home involves him in a perilous journey thwarted...
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Memoir with Michele Lent Hirsch
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Memoir lets us tell the stories we’ve been carrying around for years—the ones we've been wanting to share. Yet part of the magic of writing is that it helps us uncover other stories, too: ones we didn’t even know we had inside. Whether it springs from a long-ago family saga, a shift in our lives, or an encounter just last week that speaks to history or identity, memoir can help us find new aspects of ourselves, give others the chance to reflect...
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Aerial Circus Arts: Silks
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Explore the freedom of aerial movement, using paired lengths of fabric hung from above that are climbed, wrapped around the body and/or tied to create dramatic drops, poses and movement above the ground.
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The Art of Listening
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Full Course Name: The Art of Listening: An Introduction to Music and the Baroque Style This course is designed for the individual who loves music, but seeks a better understanding and deeper appreciation for its essential building blocks. We begin this new approach to listening by exploring music from the first half of the 18th century — the era of the High Baroque, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Couperin and Telemann, the era when our modern...
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Poetry with Emily Skillings
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When we consider and write poetry we are often drawn towards inescapably large abstractions such as love, death, and time. What happens when we invest (obsessively, meticulously, and with deep care) in the concrete objects that populate our daily lives? In this four-week workshop we will consider how artists in multiple disciplines have made use of things and thingness, meditating on objects and the worlds and affiliations they create in us. ...
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Printmaking Without a Press
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Learn the basics of printmaking — through a variety of techniques that can be done in your own home! Explore direct press-less printmaking techniques beginning with additive, subtractive, viscosity and trace monotype, image transfers, stencils and stamps. Aided by the precision of an animator’s registration system we will also learn how to create reductive foam engravings in multiple color layers using the same plate, building complex multi-colored...
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Miniature Gouache Painting
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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
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Playwriting with Christina Quintana
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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.
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Memoir with Anya Yurchyshyn
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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”),...
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Reading Ulysses with Michael Groden
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Work through selected chapters of Ulysses and discovery what makes the novel resonate today, with Michael Groden, editor of the James Joyce Archive
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Basic Six Ballroom
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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.
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Jewelry Techniques and Beads
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Learn to make 3 complete jewelry pieces through this 6-session class combining the techniques of metalsmithing and beading. This class is a great intro to metalwork for bead lovers or anyone who wants to make some great jewelry! Project 1: Beaded metal earrings Day 1: Pierce-work, filing, drilling, annealing, texturing, forming Day 2: Soldering, earing hook, posts, patina, polishing, beading Project 2: Domed beaded pendant Day 3: Disc-cutter,...
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Stone Carving for Jewelry
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In this 2 day workshop, students will learn how to carve into a variety of different stones to create patterns/textures, as well as create 3 dimensional, mini sculptures such as chain links and a few different hand gestures. We will go into detail about which stones/forms work best for these techniques, while learning how to master the use of various lapidary machines/tools, including a cabbing machine, trim saw and diamond bits on a flex shaft....
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Figure Drawing: Focus on Human Anatomy
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Learn to draw the human form in a more informed manner by developing an understanding of its anatomical and planar/muscular structure with artist Jeffrey Morabito. Emphasis will be placed on proportion, light/shade, weight, gesture, and the basic structural units of the human body. Class work will progress from quick poses to prolonged studies. Review of both old master and contemporary art will provide multiple...
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Calligraphy Basics for Wedding Invitations
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Getting married? Professional calligrapher Elizabeth White-Pultz guides you through the basics of invitations, envelope-addressing etiquette, place cards and more. Supply List: To view the list please
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Landscape Painting for Acrylic and Watercolor
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In the course, water-based media is used to depict landscapes on watercolor paper. Beginning with a composition based on an impressionist landscape, students learn how to develop background, middle-ground, and foreground elements to create a sense of space. The correlation between brushstroke and natural forms is introduced. Color mixing, paint application, and texture are also covered. You may also view the Supply List HERE Visitors are not...
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Reviews of 92nd Street Y
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Drawing for Beginners
I love this class. Learning a lot about drawing. -
Watercolors for Absolute Beginners
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Drawing for Beginners
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Colored Pencils for Beginners
Erin is lovely!! Really encouraging of expression in all its forms. It was such a great way to feel comfortable with coloured pencils. -
Watercolor Painting (Beginner/Intermediate)
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Drawing with Pastel
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Getting Started with Oil Painting
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Watercolor Painting (Beginner/Intermediate)
This watercolor class was a revelation—beautifully structured, thoughtfully paced, and led by an inspiring instructor, Allison, who made even the most complex techniques feel within reach. As someone who had never touched watercolor before, I left my first year not only confident but with a piece accepted into an art show—proof of just how transformative and empowering this class truly is. -
Precious Metal Clay II
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Twisted Wire Jewelry
This class involves one project, a lovely twisted wire ring, although if you're quicker or more skilled (I'm just kind of intermediate), you may have time for an extra piece. It was challenging, but I learned a lot and was pretty proud of what I accomplished. It will be even more exciting when the new jewelery labs at 92nd Street Y open with new equipment! -
Mosaic Art Crash Course
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Collage Then and Now
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Figure and Portrait Drawing Combined
Susan is an EXCEPTIONAL teacher! I learned so much and had so much fun! HIGHEST recommendation! -
Getting Started with Oil Painting
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Drawing with Pastel
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Drawing for Beginners
Bernado is amazing. I learned so many new things and had a blast drawing and learning from him. Would definitely recommend and take again. -
Beginner Jewelry Projects
Michelle was great as were the other classmates -
Multiple Approaches to Enameling (Intermediate/Advanced)
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Multiple Approaches to Enameling (Intermediate/Advanced)
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Collage Then and Now
