Alan Hoskins
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
College Advancement
Two Osher Lifelong Learning Institute classes offered through the University of Kansas Continuing Education will be offered at Kansas City Kansas Community College this spring.
While the classes focus on participants 50 years of age and over, all ages are welcome to either of the classes. Each of the classes will be held in a three-part series on Thursday afternoons from 2-4 p.m. on the KCKCC campus at 7250 State Avenue.
The first, “Catch the Light: Lanterns to Lasers,” will be held March 19 and 26 and April 2 and will be taught by Dr. Berney Williams, formerly a teacher of the history of science at the Kansas City Art Institute and now Dean of Graduate Studies for Distance Learning at Energy Medicine University in Sausalito, Calif.
The course will explore the wonders of light across human history, from sun worship in ancient Egypt to the chemistry of a candle and the magic of modern communication with fiber optical cables. Using demonstrations and discussions, Williams will explore how light shapes lives.
The second class, “Creativity and the Second Half of Life,” will be offered April 16, 23 and 30, and will be taught by Libby Schmanke, a certified art therapist who is on the faculty of the Graduate Art Theory Program at Emporia State and has a private practice in art therapy and an art studio, “Art & Insight,” in Lawrence.
The course will combine hands-on art therapy and the developmental stages of aging to show how self-expression can enhance the “second half of life” through colorful tissue collage, Mandela making and magazine collage technique. Neither a therapy group nor a traditional art class, no artistic skill is required.
The cost is $35 for each class or $55 for both. Persons seeking to enroll or wanting further information need to call toll free 1-877-404-5823.