Maymester 2008 Contemporary Art Blitz: NYC

This Maymester course is specifically designed for students interested in experiencing and wholeheartedly immersing themselves in the New York art scene. This intensive four-week course will include visits to museums, galleries, artist’s studios, viewings of art films and weekly lectures. There will be occasions for us to visit with gallery dealers and curators to learn more about their professions and business practices. Links to the sites can be found below. Weekly excursions outside of New York include DIA Beacon, Storm King Sculpture Park, Philadelphia Museum of Art and a midterm camp-out at Mark Dion and Morgan Puett’s farm/studio in Beach Lake, Pennsylvania (pending).

Accommodations:
We will live and meet as a group at the 92 Street YMCA which
only houses traveling students, many whom are international students studying in New York. In addition, the YMCA offers monthly access to their accommodations, including a swimming pool, their gym and their world class programming for an optional fee of $109.00. http://www.92y.org

Travel:
Students will make there own travel arrangements and should plan flights to arrive on May 2nd and leave on May 31st. Students can take a taxi to the 92nd St. Y from the airport. The closest airport is LaGuardia.

Course Fee: $5980
Includes: tuition, housing, entry fees to sights, unlimited metro-pass, weekly group dinner, film night tickets, artist studo visits, side trips. Additional costs: food, airfare, taxi to/from airport, optional Y fees.

Expectations:
Participating students will attend a class meeting on campus in early April to receive reading packets and discuss basic course information. Each class day we will visit exhibitions and/or artists’ studios. Class days will be Tuesday through Saturday with most Sundays and Mondays as free days to explore on your own. Readings will be assigned in accordance to what or whom we will visit each week. Each class day will begin with a group meeting to allow discussion of the previous day’s experiences. Wednesday evening will be film night. Students will be expected to keep a daily journal in addition to completing a short writing assignment each week.

Schedule:
May 2nd –31st. Meet at 92 Street YMCA in New York on May 2nd. The first two weeks will be hosted by Professor Mel Ziegler. Professor Libby Rowe will join the group on May 16th for the field trip to the Dion/Puett studio in Pennsylvania. Professor Rowe will host the final weeks of the course.
Contact Professor Ziegler, mel.ziegler@vanderbilt.edu or Professor Rowe, libby.rowe@vanderbilt.edu for more information.

Please click on the links below to learn more:

Other sites:

Studio Visits: subject to availability