Art and the City is being planned for 2010.

Check back here for details, or contact the Art Department.

Come experience NYC, the biggest city in North America and one of its premiere art centers. The access is diverse - public art, museums, dealers and artist-run centers. This seven-day trip will incorporate a travelogue with criticality, a keen observant eye, and daily accounts of your experience culminating with a postscript that reflects your own and the collaborative experience of the trip. A portion of each day will be spent visiting a range of venues in Tribeca/Lower Manhattan, Soho, Chelsea, uptown and Brooklyn. Some of the locations include the Whitney, the MOMA, P.S 1, the Guggenheim, the Met, DIA Beacon, the Drawing Centre, Printed Matter, Deitch Projects, Gagosian Gallery, David Zwirner, and alternative spaces like Art in General, the New Museum and working artists’ studios.  A thorough orientation to safely navigating the city will be provided, and there will also be free time to explore on your own.

Eligibility There are no prerequisites for the course.  Selection for participation in this program is based on a review of the student’s written application, transcripts and personal interview.

Course Requirements Students will be required to attend a pre-trip meeting arranged in late February for the accepted students, read selected handouts and articles in advance of the trip, and write summaries of the pre-trip readings.  During the trip, students will keep a comprehensive journal containing written summaries and visual responses to the work they encounter. Following the trip, students will select two exhibits or art sites that will be the focus of a 2-3 page paper.

Application Deadline January 23 Application forms are available in the Art Office in 198 Lawrence Hall. Applications will continue to be accepted until 15 students have been accepted into the program, at which point students may be placed on a waiting list.

Trip Costs and Payments Expenses for the course include: approximately $1100-1300 in fees for lodging, museum admissions, local travel expenses, and 3 credits of tuition. You will need to purchase your own roundtrip airfare from Eugene to New York (approx. $410+) as well as meals (figure half again what you would spend on eating out here) and other incidental expenses for entertainment and souvenirs. Financial aid may be available for travel and meals as well as course fees but usually is in the form of loans. (Talk to a financial aid counselor soon.)

Payments are due as follows:

·      a non-refundable $100 deposit is required upon acceptance into the program

·      students must show evidence of their booked flight by February 16. Students who have not purchased flights by this date will forfeit their acceptance in order to allow those on the waiting list sufficient time to book a flight at a reasonable rate

·      all fees, approximately $1100-1300, due March 1, 2009

Refund Policy Students who withdraw:

·      before  March 1 will receive a full refund, less the $100 deposit.

·      after March 1 forfeit all non-recoverable payments already made or committed on his/her behalf. This may be as high as $1000.

·      No refunds are made for withdrawals occurring after the program begins.

·      All refund requests must be made in writing and must include the reasons for withdrawing.

Registration and Credits Participants in the program will receive a total of 3 credits for the course.  The course meets upper division credit requirements for an Art or Digital Art major:

Housing and Meals While in NY students will stay in inexpensive hotels or hostels in shared rooms.  All of these rooms are clean but simple, with approximately 2-4 students per room. There will be shared modern bathroom facilities. A final farewell banquet is included in the course fee.

Tentative Schedule: The course will run from March 21-March 27. This year’s itinerary is TBA.

For more information: contact Carla Bengston, Instructor (bengtson@uoregon.edu) or Beth Roy (Administrative Support) at beth@uoregon.edu.