Terri Moore, director of studio art and the Tremaine Art Gallery, lectures in front of The Oxbow by Thomas Cole during a field trip at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by J. Krajicek.
Art Students Enjoy Field Trip at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eighty Studio Art students and faculty members ventured into New York City to view the exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Nov. 7. Lower-mid artists took inspiration and sketched from various landscape paintings in the American wing, tying to their current studies of the Hudson River School and Romanticism and preparing for a "Connection to Place" in their own landscape paintings. In ceramics, students studying manifest destiny also enjoyed landscape painting and took note of the compositions that will inform their current projects.
Upper-level Portfolio students spent time in the modern and contemporary galleries, as well as in an individual focus of study, while ceramic students studied ancient and contemporary sculpture on a self-guided tour.
All students experienced special exhibits such as Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, The Genesis Façade Commission: Lee Bul, and Long Tail Halo, and Mary Sully: Native Modern, reflecting with resonance through drawing and writing in their sketchbooks. Students were excited and inspired to spend time with the museum's collection of work that held visual mastery and conceptual narrative.
Photography, Film, and Related Media Students Travel to Hudson Valley
Photography, Film, and Related Media students took their upper-level students on a field trip in the Hudson Valley on Nov. 14. They visited the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, where they enjoyed a personalized tour of two photography exhibits, and they had lunch on campus.
Students went to the Walkway Over the Hudson in Poughkeepsie to take photographs from a unique vantage point.
The last stop was the Hessel Museum of Art on the Bard College campus, where they were guided through two fantastic exhibits, the highlight being the Carrie Mae Weems: Remember to Dream exhibition.