Graduate Fine Arts in Rome

Graduate Fine Arts Program in Rome

June 1 to July 6, 2012

Application Deadline March 23, 2012

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The Graduate Fine Arts Program in Rome is a five week program offering an inter-disciplinary curriculum that utilizes the platform of the "City as Studio."  The courses are inter-related fostering collaboration, critical thinking, and a studio practice that is contextually responsive.  The intention is to challenge the artist to leave the familiar and at times predictive confines of the studio and to work directly within the open environment of the city of Rome - to engage simultaneously with the Historical and the Contemporary, to question through the active encounter of a different culture one's place within the global art community, and within this context to initiate an account of one's own professional ambitions. 

Two Graduate Assistantships will be awarded for $1000 each.

Courses

FA 617 Drawing
This course will push the fundamentals of drawing outside. Out of the studio into the city of Rome. Drawing concepts will be explored in the context of the city. Site specificity, observation, spatial relationships, materiality,  and collaboration will  be investigated.  The discussion will expand the vocabulary of drawing, mark making, and language.

FA 671 New Forms
An  investigation into non-traditional processes (both conceptual and formal) a hybrid cross-over into an inter-disciplinary model of aesthetic inquiry—inclusive of a wide range of both more traditional and new media.  This course will take advantage of the city as the site within which one considers and develops one’s work both in terms of concept and material realities.  Taking advantage of the lack of a specific ‘work space’ the city itself will provide a rich and varied occasion through which inventive methods of working will be explored.  It will be considered an asset to not have the usual ‘artist studio’ where process remains concealed.  Projects will take real form within the city as site - the city as studio.

FA 600 Seminar in Art Criticism: “A Renaissance Workshop”
Although the Modernist idea of autonomy within each medium continues to play a major role in art and design, much of the most innovative work of the last thirty years has seen global practitioners in both fields breaking down restrictions of categorization. Artists have increasingly turned to the more applied processes within the design world (mass-distribution, industrial fabrication, intersection with everyday life) as part of their work, while many designers have been adopting ideas traditionally associated with fine arts (complexity and contradiction within a piece, the idea of challenging the audience, focusing more on making as a process than as a means to an end). This seeking out of expertise has its roots in the

Italian Renaissance, where art-making relied on workshops, patronage and collaborations. Students will collaborate on thematic projects connected to both the program’s weekly field trips and historical and contemporary readings. The class is structured as an all day course. We will meet in the morning to discuss and critique the projects and to plan for the following weeks work. The afternoon will be given over to field trips within the city of Rome.

Faculty: Kelly Driscoll & Ann Messner

 

Dates To Remember

• March 23
  Program Application & Graduate Assistantship Application Due
  Submit applications to the Fine Arts office – attn: Kelly Driscoll.
  $500 Deposit Due (Submit payment to the Bursar and include receipt with application.)
• March 26
  Notification of Acceptance and Graduate Assistantships.
  The deposit will be fully refunded if the applicant is not admitted to the program.
• March 29
  $500 deposit becomes non-refundable
  Notify the program coordinator via email of withdraw from the program before March 29, 2012 to be reimbursed.
• April 15
  Full payment due.
• April 25
  Final Meeting: Housing Assignments and Information booklet to be distributed to students.
  Student Travel Information to be given to the program coordinator.
• June 1
  Arrival in Rome- Welcome Dinner.
• July 6
  Final day of Classes and Dinner.
• July 7
  End of Program

Program Costs

Pratt Study Abroad fee                 
$385

Student Housing*                
$1000.00- 1200.00

*Price is subject to change- students may arrange for their own housing.

TUITION                
6-9 credits graduate tuition

PASSPORT/VISA
All students are required to have a valid passport prior to departure. Students are not required to obtain visas for a six week program in Italy. However, international students may need a visa for entry into the country and should check with the Italian Consulate.

Info on NewYork Passports
Passports and visas take time- please take care of this as soon as possible!

Download Program and Graduate Assistantship Application
Program Coordinator- Kelly Driscoll 

Contact: kdriscol@pratt.edu