An Introduction to Modern Art: Why Your Five-Year-Old Couldn't Have Done That

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Taught by Stefanie Lewin

Stefanie Lewin is is a Brooklyn-based educator, artist, and illustrator focused on social justice and equitable access in arts education.

Stefanie is the Education Manager at ESS Community Projects @ Eckford Street Studio, a non-profit community art space in Greenpoint. She has taught with various organizations and institutions around the city including Creative Art Works, the Whitney Museum, City Art Lab, and Free Arts NYC; has led workshops at MoMA PS1, Felicity House, and Huge, Inc.; and designed an afterschool Feminist Art Club for high school students in Baltimore. She earned her MA in Art Education from CCNY in 2016, and has a BA in Psychology and Art/Art History from the College of William and Mary.

When she is not teaching or drawing, Stefanie enjoys running, spending time in nature, and talking about her cat, Captain Augustus (Gus) McCrae. She used to play drums in a feminist punk band and if she were not an art teacher she would be a cowgirl.

For more information and to see her work, visit stefanielewin.com.

 

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The Modern Art movement was a radical shift in artistic practice and perspective. It was innovative, exciting, political, and groundbreaking. These works of art shocked the establishment, were shut out of art shows, disdained by the public, and left us with museums full of... scribbles, drips, monochromes, and giant metal cubes sitting in the middle of gallery floors. Why, exactly, was this all such a big deal?

This art history lecture will cover the major movements of Modern Art in the U.S. and Europe from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries including Impressionism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism. You'll learn about major Modern artists, critics, and institutions in an accessible and unintimidating environment; will gain an understanding of how and why their artwork was so revolutionary; and will leave with a deeper knowledge of a movement that changed Western art history.

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