LECTURES, VISITS & STUDY DAYS PROGRAMME
Nine Meetings per year are held in the Gimcrack Room, York Racecourse at 1.15 pm on the 4th Tuesday of each month, excluding July, August and December.
2011/12 PROGRAMME
6 Jan 25th Tues 2011 1.0pm
Photography, an Overview: Photography: ‘From Then until Now’
Marina Vaizey CBE MA Cantab BA – Former Art Critic for the Financial Times
7 Feb 22nd Tues 2011 1.0pm
The Mosaics of Ravenna
Jane Angelini BA MA
March 8th Tues 2011 7.0pm - 9.30pm
Joe Cornish STUDY EVENING
Joe Cornish, one of Britain's finest landscape photographers will lecture and then we can view his photographs
FULLY BOOKED - WAITING LIST ONLY
8 March 22nd Tues 2011 1.0pm
Costume & Accessories in Art
Lois Oliver MA(Cantab)MA(Courtauld)AMA LTCL - Exhibition co-ordinator at the National Gallery
April 11th Mon 10.30am - 2.30pm STUDY DAY
Afghanistan - Crossroads of the Ancient World.
Poppleton Community Centre
with Mrs Hannah Sutcliffe BAHons FRSA NOW CANCELLED
9 April 26th Tues 2011 AGM 12 noon 1.0pm lecture
A History of the Medici Family – Bankrolling the Renaissance
Douglas Skeggs MA Cantab
May 3rd Tues. STUDY DAY
Tour of Sledmere Churches.
All commissioned and built by Sir Tatton Sykes from 1860 - 1910
1 Tuesday 24th May 2011 1.0pm
The Life and Times of Wren
Andrew Davies MA Hons Oxon
June 8th Tues. STUDY DAY
Tour of the Bar Convent & Museum with Sister Agatha
Lunch
June 23rd Thurs
GARDEN PARTY & EXHIBITION by Sally Arnup with her animal bronzes and Steve Phillips artist in the style of Atkinson Grimshaw 6-8pm
at the Chairman's home
2 Tuesday 28th June 2011
Captain James Cook and the Art of Exploration
James Taylor MA FRSA
July VISIT
Mon 11th
Wren Churches London with Andrew Davies
St Paul's Cathedral and even song
September VISIT
Fri 9th - Wed 14th Sept 2011
Royal & Highland Castles and Gardens of Northern Scotland
including Glamis,Castle Fraser, Crathes, Fyvie Castle, Haddo House Hall, Cawdor, Dunrobin, Scone and the Castle of Mey
FULLY BOOKED - WAITING LIST ONLY
Oct 4th Tues 2011 STUDY DAY
Leeds Library & the Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield
3 Tuesday 27th September 2011
Titian to Van Dyck: The Art of Portraiture
Leslie Primo BA MA
4 Tuesday 25th October 2011
The Destruction of the Monasteries: The Greatest Act of Artistic Vandalism in English History
Mark Corby
5 Tuesday 22nd November 2011
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Peter Medhurst GRSM ARCM
Dec 16th Fri STUDY DAY 5.15pm Coach from Knavesmire Rd York
Beauty and the Beast by the Northern Ballet. Full Dress Rehersal.
Theatre Grand, Leeds
6 Tuesday 24th January 2012
Laura Knight and the Wild North Sea
Tim Stimson BA(Hons) PGCE(Adult Ed)
7 Tuesday 28th February 2012
Krakow “The City of the Dragon”
Douglas Skeggs MA Cantab
Wednesday 8th February STUDY DAY
David Hockney Day
Dep 9.30am Knavesmire Road Racecourse end
Visit Cartwright Hall, Salts Mill and Saltaire Village
Cost £25
8 Tuesday 27th March 2012
Members’ Day
Dr Gillian White PhD MA BA
11am-12 noon The Elizabethan Country House
2pm-3.30pm Embroidered with Woodbine and Eglantine: Elizabethan Textile Furnishings
APRIL VISIT
Sun 15th April - Sat 21st April 2012
Krakow and Warsaw
9 Tuesday 24th April 2012 AGM
An Ideal Partnership: Lutyens & Jekyll
James Bolton BA(Hons) MBA Dip ISD
LECTURES 2012-2013
Tuesday 22nd May 2012
Bernini’s Sculpture in the Villa Borghese, Rome
Hilary Williams BA (Hons) MA (Courtauld)