Learner’s Corner: Irvine
Museum Highlights
Literally Speaking: May/June 2018
Thank
you so much for providing us all amazing events and programs such as the Irvine museum field trip. Carolyn, our
tour guide, gave us a great tour and tried to simplify general information about
different art eras and addressed their distinctive characteristics of each
style in the exhibition’s paintings.
It’s
always hard to pick one out of several interesting ones. The first painting
that caught my eyes turned out to be my favorite. Although it wasn’t a big
frame, the interesting oil on canvas painting by William Clapp called Country
Road made me frozen
for a moment.
It was like watching a garden in spring full of blossom through a
rainy window glass. I saw myself sitting in a warm chair and the spring rain
had made the scene blurry. The blended colors of the garden’s creatures by
using the pointillism
technique was so powerful that I could even hear the rain pitter-pattered on
the window glass.
I
found the museum’s flyers and postcards with the same artwork as a
representative of this collection by the entrance door when we were leaving the
museum, as if the postcard designers heard the rain melody the way I did and
that’s why they chose it too. READ MORE >>
June
27 Adult Learner Orientation 6 pm
July
18 & 25 Adult Literacy Tutor Training 5:30 pm
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Our dedicated volunteers have helped hundreds of people improve their English
skills. In doing so, these volunteers have helped change lives. Literacy is a
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