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Images and Objects from America’s Past
$150.00 / unit
Present Tense: Bringing bygone times to life with images and objects from America’s past
Archivists, artists, architects, documentarians, writers—to name a few—look to the historical record in hopes of recapturing the essence and appearance of a vanished world. This course will consider the efforts of professionals in several disciplines to decipher past records, collections, and settings in search of the most authentic experiences possible of life in different times. The class will consider 19th-century paintings, old photographs, home movies, devices like magic lanterns and early typewriters, even an abandoned quarry, in search of clues helpful for reclaiming and recreating the past.
Idylls of the Imagination
Hudson River paintings offer insights into 19th-century American identity.
Instructor: Richard Friswell
Wednesday, Oct. 1, 4:00–6:00pm, Wasch Center
Architectural Restoration: Past into Present
Using the instructor’s experience as the restoration architect for three historic houses in Portland, we will look at what different pictorial representations—maps, drawings, paintings, photographs, even early home movies—can tell us about buildings’ evolution and inform restoration decisions.
Instructor: Alain Munkittrick
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 4:00–5:00pm, Wasch Center
Magic Lanterns and Stereoscopic Images
People and places are reawakened with 19th-century technology.
Instructor: Jennifer Tucker
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 4:00–5:00pm, Wasch Center
Deconstructing Stone Buildings
Tracing New England’s stone buildings back to the quarries from which their material came
Instructor: Robert Barnett
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 4:00–5:0pm, Wasch Center
From Pen to Keyboard
Connecticut’s role in the history of the modern typewriter
Instructor: Richard Voigt
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 4:00–6:00 pm, Wasch Center
Moderator, Richard Friswell
5 Wednesdays, 4:00–6:00 pm, Oct. 1, 8, 22, 29, Nov. 5