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 a complementary drawing course that highlights the sites in 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, and other cities in Spain.
For 2009, the following trips outside Barcelona are planned:
Madrid field trip: June 5-7
View artwork created by students on this program
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.
Drawing in Barcelona: Sketchbook in the Street
(PTG 300/500, 3 credits, undergraduate or graduate)
This course is an on-site drawing course open to all students. It will offer a variety of types of drawing techniques culminating in a diary-type journal of cultural experiences of the environs of Barcelona. Students will have an opportunity to visit important cultural and historic sites around the city as part of this course.
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.
Professor Ludwig Stein is former chair of the Department of Art and the graduate director of painting at Syracuse University. His career spans more than 30 years and includes teaching painting, drawing, and sculpture in London; Florence; and LaCoste, France. Drawing always has been one of the major influences in Stein's work, which has been exhibited around the world.
A student's prespective on the program:
"My experience was great. I loved the culture, I loved the atmosphere and I loved being on my own in a foreign country. We went to a FCBarcelona Futbol (soccer) game and that was by far the greatest expereince of my life!! (I've sent a picture). The thing that impacted my trip the most was the fact that I regularly attended a local Baptist church and made a lot of friends and grew spiritually in my faith while I was there. Even though it was in a language I didn't understand, there was another American woman there who translated for me, and that was a huge blessing. I can't explain how important that church family was to me.
The art and architecture in Barcelona is beyond amazing. Antoni Gaudi was a genius who designed so many beautiful pieces of artwork like The Sagrada Familia (an enormous cathedral that to this day isn't finished), Park Guell (many acres of beautiful landscape design and rock formations and amazing mosaic pieces), and Casa Mila (an apartment building of great finesse and stature). I couldn't get over how amazing they are." Stephanie Hart Syracuse University
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.
Please note that while we encourage students to pursue flight arrangements, we would not encourage you to purchase your airline tickets before confirming that the program and courses you plan to take will be offered in 2010. Please request 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 20, 2010 |
| Program begins: | May 20, 2010 |
| Program ends: | July 3, 2010 |
| Housing ends: | July 3, 2010 |
| Application deadline: | March 1* |
*Applications received after March 1 will be considered if there is still space in the program.
| UNDERGRADUATE (6 credits) | |
|---|---|
| Tuition | $5,592 (estimated) |
| Program Fee | $3,800 (2009 rate) |
| Total | |
| GRADUATE (6 credits) | |
| Tuition | $6,978 (estimated) |
| Program Fee | $3,800 (2009 rate) |
| Total | |
Please note: All costs are estimated and subject to change.
Additional Financial Information: We estimate that students should budget accordingly for the following expenses:
Air travel: $1,200
Books & Supplies: $100
Personal: $400
Meals: $1,100
These figures are for expenses not covered in the tuition or program fee and are paid out-of-pocket.