AACC Sponsors Picasso Course

The works of Pablo Picasso have been treasured by art lovers around the world. This spring Anne Arundel Community College is offering a special opportunity for Picasso aficionados with a special lecture and field trip opportunity to see the real thing.

The noncredit travel-study class is titled, “Pablo Picasso: An Artistic Icon,” and meets for a lecture and then for the trip by bus coach to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, the only East Coast venue for a special exhibit showcasing more than 175 of Picasso’s paintings, drawings, sculptures and etchings created during his 80-year career.

The lecturer and leader for the trip will be Lucinda Dukes Edinberg, an art history teacher at AACC and lecturer at the Mitchell Art Gallery at St. John’s College in Annapolis.

She hopes through this course that participants will gain an overview of Picasso’s powerful, creative works. 

“The two-hour lecture will explore some important life events, with an overview of his style and periods, and then how they evolved,” explained Edinberg. “We will also discuss the artists with whom he had close associations. He was a very complicated man on several levels and was associated with Georges Braque with whom he shared a studio and many ideas.”

The traveling exhibit features works from Picasso’s personal collection in Paris, France.

The lecture is being held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27.

The daylong museum trip takes place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 30, leaving from the Arnold campus. The $79 class cost includes lecture, transportation, group admission and headsets for an audio-led tour.

Deadline for registering for this course is April 18. Register online, by mail, in person or by phone. For a brochure and more information, click here.