Bring your students to Italy for a full immersion art experience
IB Art School Trip Course Content
La Vigna Art Studios will work with the school’s teacher to develop the optimum program for your group of students.
- Gain understanding of new techniques and materials
- Expose students to art history, artists and art making in a cultural context
- Empower students with visual thinking skills including comparative analysis
- Build material in the visual journal that may be used for the process portfolio and for the comparative study.
- Help prepare students for a successful application of the IB art course objectives
Art Making Experiences
Each art making activity is carefully combined with field trips to art historical or natural sites that complement and enrich the studio experience and give content and focus to the investigation. Students will take back both studio work and in depth journal pages. For a one week course ( 5 studio days) we recommend two areas of focus. Many of these activities include master classes with visiting artists.
Observational and experimental drawing, many ways of looking and drawing, developing technical skills and conceptual thinking.
Sculpture 3D assemblage with recycled materials, wood and metal. Using tools and materials to realize an idea.
Site Specific Installation: creating an installation in response to a particular place.
Collections and Display: developing series through collecting and displaying. Emphasis on curatorial practice and creating an exhibition.
Fresco and Sgraffito experience this ancient and beautiful technique of working directly on the wall with mineral pigments on fresh plaster.
Printmaking, relief, lino, embossing, monotypes, with exploration of textures and pattern
Making art through play: explore a range of art making activities that encourage playful, unselfconscious exploration of materials and ideas
Drawing from life at the Museo di Storia Naturale La Certosa, developing process portfolio pages and studio work from preliminary studies.
Collage and Juxtaposition: working with found and sourced materials, composition, creating meaning through association.
Egg Tempera and gold leaf on wood panel painting, with visit to Museo di San Matteo, Pisa to study icons and symbols in early Renaissance painting.
Oil Painting intro: begin with building stretchers, making rabbit skin glue and gesso primer and preparing a canvas the traditional way. Underpainting and painting a vanitas still life in layers.
What else is included?
Coordination, course development and course content
Teaching and support
Student and teacher accommodation & meals in farmhouse agriturismo
Studio facilities and most art materials
Field trips and studio visits
Transportation, driver, permits, parking, petrol
Pick up and drop off at Pisa airport or train station
Maximum group size 14 students + two teachers
Dates depend upon availability
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