ARTE Institute fall classes include art history, dream travel, dance, music history

The ARTE Institute for Lifelong Learning (AILL) of Las Cruces has announced its in-person and online classes for Aug. 31-Dec. 6, 2023.

ARTE instructors Kathleen Key (who cofounded ARTE with Kathleen Albers), Jean-Claude Linossi, Jim Smith and Devon Wall will present classes on art history, dance and music history, and will lead a visit to Abiquiu. ARTE will again partner with Doña Ana Arts Council (DAAC) and hold most of its in-person classes at DAAC, 230 S. Water St. All Zoom classes will be recorded.

Classes and other offerings

• Icons in Art History with Key. 11 lectures on Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet.
• Dream Travel: Historic French Cathedrals with Linossi. Six Zoom classes.
• Folk Dancing and Movement with Wall, two in-person sessions.
• The Immortal Beethoven: Music history and appreciation with Jim Smith. Five in-person classes.
• Dream Travel: Historic French Cathedrals, with Linossi. Six lectures.
• Travel: Key will lead an ARTE Adventure to Abiquiu in October.
• Frida-Mania Fiesta will take place at DAAC 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Sept 28. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera costumes are encouraged. Learn Mexican folk dances from Wall, a former professional dancer. The event will include recipes from the Frida Fiesta cookbook, as attendees are asked to bring a dish or beverage to share.

Instructors

• Key is an art historian who has taught art history at the University of Houston and in UTEP’s continuing education program. Key and her husband, Bill, lived in Cairo, Egypt, for more than 20 years.
• Smith has taught Appalachian Spring music, Billy the Kid history, Mahler’s First Symphony and El Sistema music education of Venezuela for ARTE. He is a former history teacher and education consultant who has made presentations on music history at the University of Heidelberg, the American School in Singapore and at Rice University, Texas Christian University, NMSU, UTEP, Western New Mexico University and the University of New Mexico. He is a former New Mexico teacher of the year.
• Wall has a bachelor of arts degree in dance and physical education from Sam Houston State University and an MFA in dance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. she retired in 2015 after a 20-year career in general and arts education and dance with the Los Angeles Unified School District.
• Linossi is a native of Strasbourg, France, immigrating to the United States in 1973 and settling in El Paso in 2010. Linossi’s interests are art, French history and languages. He teaches French conversation and culture at UTEP.

Cost

The cost is $275 per person for all access; $195 per person for Zoom only; and $150 for Frieda Cuelo or Beethoven only. Linossi, a native of Strasbourg, France, now lives in El Paso. His lectures will explore six historical cathedrals and he will discuss traveling to each site.

To register and for more information, contact Kathleen Albers at 575-635-1973 and kathleenalbers@arteadventures.com.