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Semester on Contemporary Art

nycTREC

 

Contemporary Art

Classes begin in late August, end in early December and are held in New York or on campus on Wednesdays and/or Fridays. 

Applications are due March 10.

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Travel

Navigate New York’s art scene, intellectually and physically, negotiating subways and urban streets as you get up-close and personal with expressions of creative skill and imagination.

Fuel your passion for art through one-of-a-kind discussions with painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers in their studios. Converse with critics and dealers in Chelsea galleries. Analyze works in cutting-edge museum exhibits.

Stretch your legs and your mind as you traverse the city’s public art sites. By semester’s end, your artistic passport will bear stamps from up-and-coming venues and iconic art centers such as:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Guggenheim Museum
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The New Museum
Storm King Art Center
Dia Beacon
Marian Goodman Gallery
The Drawing Center
MoMA

Rethink

Art in the 21st century.

What does the New York art world teach us about the major movements and figures associated with the post-war period? How are contemporary artists expanding the definition of art? How are they changing processes and modes of making art? What are the relationships between theory and practice? What role do art critics, curators and historians play in mediating our experience of contemporary art?

Explore

You won’t just see art. You’ll live it. With each studio, gallery or museum visit, you will learn to place contemporary art in broader social, cultural and historical contexts.

Hone your art history background under the gaze of a Kandinsky or Pollock.

Grab a seat in a Brooklyn artist’s studio and be ready for a lively back and forth on everything from nature, to the self, from feminism to multiculturalism.

Connect

Complete an immersive experience for your Launch Plan and gain valuable transferable skills along the way. Knowing how to discuss and write confidently about art—remember, you’ll be learning from the pros—are assets in a broad array of career choices. Use the Art Semester as a springboard for a career in curation, preservation, or museum management, or graduate work in art history. Art and art history majors fulfill a major requirement with this nycTREC, but students from all majors are encouraged to apply.

Required Course

ART/ARTH 385 New York Semester on Contemporary Art (PREREQUISITE ARTH 306)

New York Semester on Contemporary Art

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Launch Your Future

Under the Launch platform, all students graduate with at least two experiential learning opportunities on their transcripts. Guaranteed.

This nycTREC program will count towards this out-of-the-classroom requirement in the Launch curriculum.

Learn more about Launch.

Eligibility Requirements

• Drew student with junior or senior standing
• Be in good academic and disciplinary standing

Costs & Financial Assistance

The cost of this program is included in your semester tuition and includes round-trip transportation to New York City from Madison and program-related events and activities.

All of your Drew University financial assistance, whether merit or need-based, may be applied to all Drew-sponsored semester programs.

Program Director

Lee Arnold, Professor of Art

Learn more about Professor Arnold.