Florence Summer Programs 2023

The Sam Fox School’s Florence Summer Program provides an interdisciplinary learning environment to study architecture, art, and art history

May 19–July 29, 2023

Our program centers around collaborative studios in art and architecture within the rich, historic landscape of Florence. You’ll work closely with your professors to make work that is highly personalized and well developed. Field trips throughout the summer will explore the region's full cultural offerings. You’ll earn 10 college credits:

• Architecture or Art Studio (6 credits)

• Art History (3 credits)

• Italian Language Workshop (1 credit)

During orientation, students

in workshops such as this one in printmaking,

participate

led by Carmon Colangelo, the Ralph J. Nagel Dean of the Sam Fox School.

Courses

STUDENTS SELECT ONE STUDIO

Architectural Apparitions: City of Collective Memory

ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

6 CREDITS | FACULTY: Constance Vale

Florence is vibrantly animated by the life and culture of its citizens and, simultaneously, filled with apparitions and imprints of the past. This studio asks you to frame a history of the city as both a living social system and an archive of collective memory. Using media that hybridize the past and future—including drawing, printmaking, fotoromanzo films, and digital photogrammetry—you will create progressive designs for a reliquary, a sepulcher, and a necropolis. These designs should accommodate bodies in life and death and recognize funerary practices from the wide array of cultures collected in contemporary Florence.

Design for multicultural chapel, Wentao Guo and Rebecca Shen

ART STUDIO

Drawing the City

6 CREDITS | FACULTY:

Shreyas R Krishnan

What makes a city? Is it the people in it, outside it, passing through it? Is it spatial, focused on geography or architecture? Or is it something intangible, like time, taste, or sound? In this studio, you will engage with the city of Florence through your sketchbook, exploring different methods of drawing at various locations. Your sketchbook will act as a repository of research and visual exploration that informs a series of scaled projects—zines, maps, postcards, posters—to frame Florence’s narrative through different lenses.

Watercolor, drawing, and collage by Clara Greene

Collaborative book for Making Meaning studio

Courses, cont’d

Art History: Rethinking

Renaissance Visual Culture 3 CREDITS

FACULTY: Katharina Giraldi-Haller

This course explores the complexities, innovations, and magnificence of over two centuries of visual production. Using the city as a visual guide, you’ll explore the variety of motifs in Florence’s aesthetic language and the interdisciplinary connections to drawing, design, and architecture.

Italian Language in Elba

1 CREDIT

FACULTY: Francesca Puglisi

This weeklong workshop with experi enced teachers builds a strong founda tion in Italian. Morning classes develop your conversational skills. In the after noons, you'll explore Elba through cultural programs and excursions around the picturesque island. Other activities include sailing and swimming in the Tyrrhenian Sea, hiking in the mountains, and visiting historic sites such as Napoleon’s fortress in Portoferraio.

Living in Florence

Tuition & Financial Aid

A limited number of scholarships are available, based on need and merit. Please indicate on your application if you are seeking financial assistance.

Tuition is approximately $14,650. • Students are responsible for airfare, food, art supplies, and books.

Passports & Student Visas

Students obtain their own passports, which must be valid for 3 months after the program concludes. The School can assist with your visa application process.

• Allow for an additional $2,500 for course materials, field trips, museum passes, etc.

Apply

samfoxschool.wustl.edu/florence-summer

Application deadline | Feb. 15, 2023