The 1920s Project |
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Spring and Summer Semesters 2024 It is 100 years since:
Are you wondering about, or remembering, other important events of the 1920s? Join OLLI instructors and members as we explore the rich history of the 1920s during the spring and summer semesters. Look for this symbol |
to indicate classes in this series in our course catalogs. Special Event |
The Harlem Renaissance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
This groundbreaking exhibition explores the far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed modern life in the Roaring Twenties. 160 works of painting, sculpture, film, photographs and ephemera explore Black lives and experience in 1920s–40s Harlem in the decades of the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans moved out of the segregated Jim Crow South. The exhibition establishes the Harlem Renaissance as a central facet in the development of modern art. Many of the paintings and sculptures come from the extensive collections of Historically Black Colleges/Universities and from private collections here and in Europe. Event details can be found on the event page here. Wait list open, registrations at capacity. |
Spring Classes
Stacy Wallach will begin his twelve-week history of the 1920s. The second six weeks will be in the summer semester. Click on title above for full class description. Inventing ModernismDavid Langston, a favorite OLLI instructor and emeritus MCLA professor, will introduce “Modernism” a ubiquitous, reviled and revered, movement that shaped all the arts as it came to full flower in the 1920s. Click on title above for full class description. |
Summer Classes |
The following courses are confirmed for the summer. Full descriptions of the courses will be available in early May. Watch for additional courses which will be posted as they become available. The Roaring Twenties Stacy Wallach’s history of the 1920s will continue for six-weeks in June and early July. The Harlem Renaissance This nine-week overview of the Harlem Renaissance will be taught by a team of experienced OLLI instructors and guests. Frances Jones-Sneed, PhD emeritus professor of history from MCLA, will kick off the course introducing the historical setting. David Mickenberg, PhD, art historian and museum director, will introduce the important visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance and David Langston, PhD, MCLA emeritus professor of literature, will share key writers and their works. Guest speakers will join the anchor faculty in person and via Zoom. Science and Medicine in the 1920s This eleven-week class will introduce key innovations in medicine and many of the puzzles of astronomy and quantum physics that scientists are still exploring today. |
OLLI: the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College |
