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New York City
ART AND THE CITY Program Director, Brian Gillis New York City is an art epicenter. Art and the City is a 7-day expedition into all facets of the NYC art world; Museums, galleries, individual artist studios, designer's shops, and public art. The focus of this trip will be inquiry and observation. Over the course of a week students will develop an expeditionary journal that incorporates collection, cartography, and text to archive questions and observations, while serving as a place to reflect critically on the work one sees and the environments they experience. Each day will include trips throughout the greater New York City Area to see examples of public art, art practice (i.e. an artist’s studio, industrial fabricators, an artist lecture, etc.), museums, and galleries. Some of the locations will include major NYC institutions such as PS1, the MOMA, Whitney, New Museum, Guggenheim, Met, Dia Beacon, Sculpture Center, Museum of Art and Design, Brooklyn Museum, the New Museum, galleries such as Deitch Projects, Gagosian, and Mathew Marks, as well as the Metropolitan Opera Costume Shop, an art handling company, a furniture maker's shop, and the studios of artists like Michael Peter Smith and Mickalene Thomas. Participants will be given a thorough orientation to safely navigating the city and lots of free time to explore on their own. 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 22, 2010. 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, 2010 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.
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