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The Abbey
Creative Lab: A Study Abroad Studio
Created by The College of International and Continuing
Education at The University of Southern Mississippi
and partner universities, The Abbey Creative Lab offers
one course in art and museum theory and four nexus points
of creativity for undergraduate and graduate students
specializing in the fine arts. Each student at The Abbey
Creative Lab will work either individually or collectively
to create an oeuvre to present publicly and/or load
onto the lab's website.
Credits:
4 credit hours
Price: $3600, including international air travel,
ground transfer to The Abbey, tuition, housing, breakfast
or lunch each day, international cellular phone and
all required museum visits.
Dates:
June 29th to July 21st
Prerequisites:
- 28 hours
minimum
- 2.0
GPA
- Clear
Academic Standing.
Eligibility:
Incoming college freshmen through graduate students
1) Modern
Art/Modern Museums
This course
surveys great movements in western art history from
the late eighteenth-century neo-classicism of Jacques
Louis David through the non-representational moods of
twentieth-century luminaries like Picasso and Matisse.
In conjunction with its study of modern art, the course
will also explore a range of presentational and documentary
tactics associated with the development of the great
museums of France. In co-mingling the study or art history
with academic and site analysis of museum systems, the
course will require students to mount their own collective
exhibition of art, artifacts and/or landscape elements
at The Abbey. Dr. Tony Lewis of The University of Southern
Mississippi will teach the course,
2) The
Abbey Theater Project: Classics en Pleine Aire
This course
is an acting, training and performance project to feature
presentations of extracts from the oeuvres of Moliere,
Shakespeare and the Italian commedia dell'arte. Group
developed by students, the enactments will be designed
to exploit the natural and artifactual landscape of
The Abbey. In every case, however, student performances
will grow out of related activities in studio courses,
which will focus on physical comedy, movement, vocal
development work and script interpretation. Dr. Roger
Ellis of Grand Valley State University will lead the
Abbey Theater Project.
3) The
Abbey Writing Workshop
This writing
workshop will be an introduction to creative writing
but also suitable for more advanced writers. The workshop
will initiate students to the practice of genre-free
writing exercises as it shepherds them gradually through
techniques of revision and genre choice. Exercises from
the text as well as those generated by Workshop faculty
will encourage students to explore creativity through
the manipulation of language, setting, time and the
psychology of character. The course will feature extensive
reading, collaborative reading of each other's texts
and creative debate. The Abbey and its monumental setting
will be used as the Workshop's creative muse. Dr. Jenny
Brantley of The University of Wisconsin at River Falls
will teach the Workshop.
Application
Form
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