Students will meet in New York City and spend three days studying there before embarking for the campus of the Terra Foundation for American Art at Giverny, where participants will enjoy a day-long visit/lecture at the Louvre in Paris. Following a week in Giverny, students will proceed to Amsterdam for a three-day immersion in the works and life of the noted painter Rembrandt. The international portion of the trip will conclude in Stratford-upon-Avon, the setting of Shakespeare’s early life. Students will see several plays by the Royal Shakespeare Company and visit settings from Shakespeare’s life, including several important sites in London.

“The goal of the program is to further the 12 of us artistically, as well as have us cross-pollinate, since Rembrandt was highly influenced by writing and its solutions to artistic problems. Similarly, Shakespeare was influenced by how artists dealt with pictorial structures,” said Makela.

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