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2008 Application now available! In the Autumn Quarter of 2008, the School of Art will present its fourteenth Studio Art Program at the University of Washington's Rome Center. The program offers a unique opportunity to study and create art in the vibrant and historical city of Rome. Through site visits in Rome and field trips to selected major cultural centers of Italy, students will have the amazing chance to experience first hand some of the most influential art in Western civilization. Studio assignments and individual projects will create a framework for art making that may be a direct response to living and working in Rome or a continuation of previous studio work. The program is intensive and interdisciplinary in nature. Housed in the magnificent seventeenth century Palazzo Pio, the UW Rome Center will serve as the primary base for the Studio Art Program. Located in the historical center of Rome, the Palazzo traces its origins to the Roman Theater of Pompey (55 BC), portions of which are still visible within the building and the surrounding neighborhood. It serves the program’s studio, lecture, library, computing, seminar and administrative functions. School of Art undergraduate and graduate students will be given priority. Approximately 24 students will be accepted. Participants will be selected on the basis of high scholarship, academic preparation, motivation, emotional maturity, statement of intent, financial responsibility, and faculty recommendation. School of Art Professors Rebecca Cummins and Ellen Garvens will be leading the program and will be joined in Rome by guest instructor Lucy Clink. Ellen Garvens is a professor in the Photography Program and taught in Rome in 2000. Her own work is a combination of photography, sculpture and drawing. Influenced by her work as a scientific assistant at The American Museum of Natural History in New York, her interests include the effects of science on the body. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Grant and a Washington State Arts Commission/Artist Trust Individual Fellowship. She has received travel grants to pursue her research in Cameroon, Egypt and SE Asia. www.ellengarvens.com Dr. Rebecca Cummins is a professor in photography; she explores the experiential and sometimes humorous possibilities of light and natural phenomena resulting in sculptural objects, installations, photography and sundials. She co-taught SAPR X in 2003 and loved it! Experiencing the ancient time marking devices of Italy had a significant impact on her work. She has taught in the UK (1994) and Australia (1986-2001) and has exhibited in the US, Australia, Canada, Finland, UK, Germany and recently in China in the 2007 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi and the 6th Shanghai Biennale. www.rebeccacummins.com Lucy Clink is an artist who has lived and worked in Rome for over twenty years and was a guest instructor for the 2007 SAPR. Her interest and knowledge of both historical and contemporary Italian art are influential in her own studio practice and provide a rich teaching perspective. She has taught at the Rome campuses of Temple University, Cornell University and Trinity College and has been a guest critic at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her drawings, paintings and photographs have been exhibited in Rome, Boston and Chicago. Estimated Costs
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