LLC's New Member Satisfaction Guarantee
If you’ve never been a member of LLC before, give us a try! Pay membership dues ($40), sign up for one of our terrific courses, and enjoy stimulating learning, discussion, and socializing. We are sure you will be pleased, but if you're not, we will refund your membership dues. Here's how it works.
- Pay the $40 annual membership dues to join LLC
- Select a course from the catalog, register on 7/27 @ 9 AM* and pay the course fee and take the course
- Shortly after the end of the course, we will send you a brief survey asking for your opinions on several aspects of your experience
- At the end of the survey, you’ll have the opportunity to request refund of your membership dues
- If you request a refund through the survey, we will send you a check for $40 and your membership in LLC will be cancelled
- If at any time in the future you wish to rejoin LLC, you will be asked to pay the annual membership dues fee in effect at that time and the fees and expenses for any course(s) or events you wish to attend
- The dues refund offer can only be used once
*It's a smart idea to become a member of LLC before course registration opens. Click here to do it now. Members automatically receive the course catalog in their email box one week before registration opens. This will save you time when you actually register for a class.
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Latest News
Inside the latest issue of The Lark
St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center
Click to jump to linked articles or read the issue here.
- THE METHUSELAH PROJECT by LLC member Barry Marshall
- SEEKING VOLUNTEERS: LLC SUMMER SERVICE ACTIVITY (Jul 8)
- LLC’S TRIP TO ST. ANN ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTER IN WOONSOCKET
- JANE’S WALK ARTICLE CORRECTION
- I HEAR AMERICA SINGING by Walt Whitman
See the entire archive of The Lark
LLC's trip to St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center in Woonsocket
On June 10, over twenty LLC members toured St. Ann Arts and Cultural Center. Called "Rhode Island's Sistine Chapel," this local treasure is home of the largest collection of fresco paintings in North America.
LLC Lunch and Learn: The Declaration of Independence
On May 19, LLC provided a festive inaugural Lunch and Learn to celebrate the Declaration of Independence in honor of America's 250th anniversary. Opening the program, LLC members read the Declaration as the audience shared their cheers and boos for the stirring words. A special retrospective script created by Linda Shamoon addressed the questions “What were they thinking in 1776? What events have occurred since the signing of this precious document? What are we thinking in 2026?" The festivities concluded with a rousing songfest led by guitarist Henry Chapin. Voices sang out old favorites: “This Land Is Your Land,” “Yankee Doodle,” excerpts from “The Yankee Doddle Boy” and “You’re a Grand Old Flag” by Providence–born George M. Cohan, and an inspiring “America the Beautiful.”
Announcing three spring virtual art galleries: Open Studio Art (Zoom & in-person) and Paint Like a Woman
Click the links to view the entire gallery of artwork created by LLC members this spring:
Open Studio Art on Zoom gallery (led by Kathy Webster)
Open Studio Art In-person at Shriners gallery (led by Susan Van Horne)
Paint Like a Woman gallery
Featured artwork: “Red Panda,” inspired by Roger Williams Zoo photo by LLC member Mark Rubinstein (Open Studio Art on Zoom); “The Grove” by LLC member Deborah DeCoteau (Open Studio Art in-person); "Sunflowers" by LLC member Gail Dusseaut (Paint Like a Woman).
Announcing LLC's Cell Phone Photography Club Spring Virtual Art Show
In this ongoing class, LLC members experiment with cell phone photography and photo editing. Improving use of phone cameras, trying new genres of photography, such as street, landscape, and low-light photography, learning from each other, and sharing photos with a congenial group are all creative, instructive, social, and fun. This semester was led by Ellen Fingeret and Margaret Lawrence.
View the entire gallery of photography.
Featured artwork, "Rough Road Ahead!" by LLC member Sam Grabelle
LLC has a new mailing address
The Owl has landed!
Meet Elsie!
The Owl is LLC's quarterly newsletter, filled with LLC news, dates, interviews, a members' calendar, help wanted ads and more. Stay in touch. Stay informed about LLC's upcoming events and volunteers. Want to know more about LLC? Read the flagship issue of The Owl.
Key dates for upcoming semesters
Fall 2026
Catalog July 20 | Registration opens Mon, July 27 @ 9 AM | Classes start September 14
Wintersession 2027
Catalog Nov 23 | Registration opens Nov 30 @ 9 AM | Classes start January 4, 2027
A thank you to our outgoing President Sheila Brush
Linda Shamoon, LLC's Incoming President, shared the following words about Sheila Brush, Outgoing President, at our Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 27:
"[Every one of us] acknowledges that Sheila has been a terrific leader. She's been simply outstanding, and this is the moment where I would like to just mention those major achievements, and even the ones that you don't see. In her three years as president, these are just the highlights:
The transition out of COVID into in-person classes. We forget how hesitant people were, but under Sheila's leadership, that came together really quickly.
And then completing and helping to complete and implement an ambitious 3-year strategic plan, which required the cooperation of all our committees and committee leaders.
The smooth transition to a new location, and a new way to do Convocation, which I'm particularly grateful.
That's just the big picture. The everyday stuff gets solved in ways that the average member doesn't even see. The daily schedule glitches that Sheila takes care of all the time, individual members' problems and complaints, which flow her way. The care, nurturing, and supply and cleanup of the coffee room. Bathroom leaks, classroom air quality, crumbs on the table, trash remover, technology problems, the list goes on. So, an amazing amount of energy, commitment, and commitment to the welfare of LLC and its members. Sheila either, in all of those cases, got the right person to do the job, or she did it herself. She did it without fuss, and she did it properly, and with good cheer, and always successfully. In other words, every aspect of being a president, big and small. Sheila did them perfectly.