Drawing on Site: A Beginning Studio Experience on the Western Coast of Ireland

Fairfield University Study Abroad - Your Passport to the World

February 29-March 8

Ireland continues to offer mystery, beauty, and refuge to its visitors. The western coast of Ireland, especially rich in visible history, from the 3,500 BC Celtic burial sites to the ruins of 11th-century churches and abbeys, offers a compelling array of shapes, values, textures and context for the beginning studio practitioner to respond to and record. The program takes place at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, a small village on the coastline of County Clare, and south of Galway City.

Fairfield University is fully accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, which credits schools and colleges in the six New England states.

All students take SA 12-Foundation Drawing, which satisfies Fairfield's practicum core requirement for the Visual and Performing Arts.

Faculty

Jo Yarrington, MFA, is a full-time professor of studio art in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Fairfield University. She teaches courses on drawing, printmaking, and studio practice/theory, and has received numerous residencies and grants in support of her teaching and her visual work. Her drawings, installations and site work have been shown at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Rotunda Gallery, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University (Scotland), Galleria Sala Uno (Rome), and Christus Church (Cologne). In 2001 she was one of four artists representing the United States at the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates. She has lived, worked, and taught studio art on the western coast of Ireland. That experience changed her life and her work and she hopes that her students are equally inspired by Ireland.

Program Cost: $2700.

• Tuition for three credits
• Double-occupancy housing at The Burren College of Art
• Some meals
• Roundtrip airport transfer for group flight passengers
• Field trips - tour of County Clare, hiking, midnight Irish dance, visit to Galway for St. Patrick's Day Parade
• Insurance

Airfare is not included. Seats will be reserved on a group flight from JFK to Shannon through STA Travel, from whom you can purchase your ticket.

Application Deadline: December 1, 2007

Application and Instructions

Program deposit of $500 due with application
Balance due January 15, 2008