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The OLLI Special Events Committee presents 

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Tuesday, February 11 at 11:30 a.m.

SOLD OUT!! Registration is now closed.

This program is in-person in Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota Art Museum and OLLI at Ringling College, 1001 South Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236

Join us for your own lunch at Museum BISTRO at 1:15 p.m.

11:30 a.m. SARASOTA ART MUSEUM

Joe Fig: Contemplating Vermeer
In 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam hosted a monumental exhibition of Johannes Vermeer, showcasing 28 of the 35 masterpieces attributed to the enigmatic Dutch painter. Drawing on his own visit to this historic show, artist Joe Fig created 16 new paintings. In these works premiering in Contemplating Vermeer, Fig not only pays homage to the seventeenth-century painter’s mastery of light, color, and verisimilitude, but also reflects on the aesthetic experience in the Rijksmuseum’s galleries. Expanding on his decade-long Contemplation series, he captures his subjects—artworks and their viewers—and their surroundings, exploring how people engage with or contemplate artworks in public spaces.

Larry Fink / Martha Posner: Flesh and Bone
This exhibition explores the creative dialogue between photographer Larry Fink (1941-2023) and sculptor Martha Posner (born 1956), who were romantic partners for more than 30 years. Radically different artists, their work nonetheless shares common themes of desire, vulnerability, and brutality. Both also explore myth throughout their art: Posner explicitly, through her re-imagining of female subjects from various legends and mythic traditions; Fink implicitly, through his shrewd eye for human impulse, folly, and bravado, qualities he found in almost every scenario no matter how base or exalted.

2:30 p.m. DOCUMENTARY FILM
SCREENING AND CLASS
(with the OLLI at Ringling College)

Resistance – They Fought Back
We’ve all heard of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but most people have no idea how widespread and prevalent Jewish resistance to Nazi barbarism was. Instead, it’s widely believed that “Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter.”  Filmed in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Israel, and the U.S., Resistance – They Fought Back provides a much-needed corrective to this myth of Jewish passivity.

Meet Paula Apsell, News and Documentary Emmy winner and the writer and co-director of the award-winning film Resistance — They Fought Back.

SIGN UP IMMEDIATELY FOR THIS FABULOUS EVENT!

Costs:
OLLI at BCC Member: $38
Non-Member: $42

Registration closes on February 5.

No refunds unless space is filled from a waiting list!  
Questions? Special Events Chair: Arline Breskin (413) 446 4102

Register online or call 413.236.2190 (M-F 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.) to register by phone with a credit card.  

Thank you to OLLI's Special Events Committee for organizing this and so many other great OLLI events!