Visual Arts in Barcelona
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Home to Miro, Dali, Gaudi, and the young Picasso, Barcelona is majestic and earthy at the same time. It is a perfect setting for young artists eager to bring new vigor and passion to their work. Here you’ll become immersed in the vibrant Barcelona art scene, and draw upon that experience in your studio work.
Students will take a glassmaking course and an art history course on the art of Barcelona. No prior experience in art is necessary, but spontaneity and experimentation will be encouraged. The glassmaking course will provide an exciting opportunity for students to exhibit their final work in a gallery. The courses are enhanced by visits to museums, galleries, and architectural sites in Barcelona.
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Summer in Barcelona
Barcelona celebrates summer in style. It literally begins with a bang when the pagan summer solstice tradition takes over the entire region of Catalunya. The city explodes in a celebration of bonfires, fireworks, people dressed as devils spewing fire. Sample coques de Sant Joan, the traditional pastries made for the occasion.
During the summer months, there is an astounding selection of cultural activities. The annual Grec Festival offers over seventy concerts, theater and dance performances held in an open-air amphitheater and different plazas throughout the city. The festival highlights many of Spains premier artists. There is always something going on along the Rambla, the storied promenade that bisects Old Barcelona on its way to the waterfront.
Barcelona is also home to a serious flamenco scene, and hosts a flamenco festival and a number of other flamenco performances in venues throughout the city.
An Introduction to Glass as an Artist’s Medium
(STA, 500, 3 credits, undergraduate or graduate)
The course will seek to foster an imaginative approach to glass as an artist's medium, touching on a wide variety of techniques and giving the students a basis from which further, more specialized investigation into the medium can be carried out.
Students will begin with a series of short hands-on workshops demonstrating a variety of glass techniques, ranging from basic glass-cutting skills to kiln forming and casting. They will become familiar with the essential properties of glass and its subsequent applications.
Later in the course, students, having gained enough working knowledge of the medium, will be set a project within the bounds of which they will be encouraged to create a work in glass of a more individual nature inspired by their experience of being in Barcelona. This final work will be exhibited in a gallery space in the city center towards the end of the course.
By the end of the six-week course, students should have sufficient working knowledge of the medium to allow them to create simple works in glass and mixed media. The course will also have formed the basis for future investigation and a more in-depth exploration of the world of glass. No prior experience in glass is necessary. Spontaneity and experimentation will be encouraged. Students will pay a course fee for supplies provided by the studio. This fee will be billed in Syracuse after registration.
Art in Barcelona
(ART 500, 3 credits, undergraduate or graduate)
This course will take an intensive look at the art of Barcelona, both historical and contemporary. With visits to the Picasso Museum, the Miro Foundation, the Contemporary and Modern Art Museums, Contemporary galleries and performance spaces, the architectural sites of Antonio Guadi and American Frank Gehry, as well as field trips to Madrid and Costa Brava, the course will present a survey of art in one of Europe’s most vibrant cultural centers.
The ancient Catalan capitol is famous for its architecture and decorative arts. It is also a hotbed for technical innovation in contemporary art. The course will expose students to what has happened in the past in Barcelona and what is happening right now! This course will be coordinated with the studio course in glass to help students develop ideas for projects in glass.
While reading is required as well as a presentation by each student, the course is organized around firsthand experience of the city’s superb museums and architectural sites. Students will be required to write a research paper. Good walking shoes are required.
Philippa Beveridge is a Barcelona-based artist and educator. She holds a Master's in Art in Fine Arts from the University of East London and her teaching experience includes The Studio at Corning and Urban Glass, New York. She has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States and her exhibitions include a two-person show at the Barcelona Archaeological Museum and the Artonivo Gallery in Bruges, plus a solo show sponsored by the British Council. In 2003 she received the supporting prize for the Jutta-Cuny Franz Memorial Award for sculpture in glass. She has also co-authored two books, Warm Glass and Mosaic, which have been translated into several languages. She can be contacted at: philippabeveridge@ya.com.
Anne E. Michie is a British artist, based in Barcelona. She has a Masters in Fine Art from London’s prestigious Goldsmiths University. She has exhibited her work continuously in many European countries, including a solo show at Barcelona’s Textile Museum sponsored by Coats threads, the British Council,amongst others and organising a large scale exchange show between Copenhagen’s Rundetarn Museum and Barcelona’s Estudios Mariscal. In 2004, she was awarded the FAD Gold Medal for Art. She has taught art to Masters level for art schools from Britain: Winchester School of Art, the Royal College of Art; Spain : the Escola Massana and Norway. She also jointly devised, set up and ran an artists workshop at the Can Serrat art centre, Barcelona, bringing together artists from Europe, the States and New Zealand, to give them a fascinating and exclusive in depth view of the city. She has written on art history for various magazines and the Insight Guide. She has appeared on national Spanish and Catalan televisions and the BBC as an invited artist.
Students arrange and pay for their own round-trip transatlantic flight to Barcelona.
Advantage Travel specializes in student fares and can assist with flight arrangements for your summer program. For more information, please contact Sally Curtis at scurtis@advantagecny.com or 1-800-788-1980.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not purchase your airline ticket before receiving written notification from us that you can book your flight. You will have to present this notification if we cancel the program at a later date and you want to be reimbursed for the cost of the ticket.
Transportation for program-related field trips is arranged by SU Abroad and included in the program fee.
In Barcelona, you’ll be housed in shared studio apartments with kitchenette and private bath in a residence hall. Meals are not included.
On field trips you stay in hotels, and breakfast will be provided.
If you choose to arrange and pay for your own housing in Barcelona, you must notify SU Abroad at the time of application.
| Housing begins: | May 21, 2009 |
| Program begins: | May 21, 2009 |
| Program ends: | July 4, 2009 |
| Housing ends: | July 4, 2009 |
| Application deadline: | March 1* |
*Applications received after March 1 will be considered if there is still space in the program.
| UNDERGRADUATE (6 credits) | |
|---|---|
| Tuition | $5,424 (estimated) |
| Program Fee | TBA |
| Total | TBA |
| GRADUATE (6 credits) | |
| Tuition | $6,774 (estimated) |
| Program Fee | TBA |
| Total | TBA |