ELECT240 New York Studio
June 16–July 4, 2008

This three-week studio course set in New York City is open to the discussion of interdisciplinary art practices with an emphasis on contemporary dialogues around painting. The class visits the studios of artists living and working in the area, and, through these studio visits structures its own discussions and projects around questions of new and traditional perspectives in painting in 2008. The course provides daily studio time in which students work on projects that have been proposed before the trip to ensure the best use of studio time while there. Materials, the transportation of work, and time management are discussed in a meeting before students meet up in New York. In addition to visits to painters' studios, participants visit galleries, museums, and performances as a group, and individually, to provide additional class content. Gallery guides, city guides, and the general layout of the museums and galleries are discussed before the trip so students can focus on the exact venues that interest them and relate to their work. Each student will be provided with an individual studio space at the new AICAD Studios in the DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) district of Brooklyn, right on the East River with a view of the Brooklyn Bridge looking over to Manhattan. The program is now in a very large renovated building full of arts organizations with an architecturally designed space at 20 Jay Street, Suite M10 (http://www.aicad.org/nysp/DUMBO/next.dumbo_map.html). Handouts with more detailed information may be obtained from the Special Programs Office in Oakland, 510.594.3710. This course fulfills a studio elective; Grad-wide elective or Fine Arts seminar requirement.