Studio Escalier - 2011 Winter at the Louvre

Studio Escalier - 2011 Winter at the Louvre - Drawing Intensive

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Louvre and Class Drawings
Winter 2010

N. Michelle Tully

Class Demonstrations
Winter 2009 - 2010

T. Stotz

Winter at the Louvre - Drawing Intensive 2011

"C'est en se rendant familières les inventions des autres qu'on apprendre, dans l'art, à inventer soi-même" - JAD Ingres

   ("It is by becoming familiar with the inventions of others that one learns, in art, to invent oneself.")

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LOCATION: Our next Winter at the Louvre - Drawing Intensive will hold morning drawing sessions in our new
                    Paris Program Studio in Montmartre, as well as offer weekly critique of ongoing student drawings
                    at the Musee du Louvre.

                    Please see our Facilities page for complete details on the new Paris Program Studio.

CLASS DATES: Sunday, January 30, 2011 - Friday, April 1, 2011    (Two consecutive 4-week terms; 9 weeks total)

                           Mid-term break: February 26 - March 6    (A one-week break in the middle)

CLASS SCHEDULE: Figure sessions with live model 16.5 hrs/week (M,Th,Fr mornings, and all day Tuesday)

                               One-on-one critiques offered at the Louvre, two afternoons per week.
                               (One individual Louvre critique per student, per week, with alternating instructors.)

CLASS SIZE:     10 maximum + instructors

WHO is ELIGIBLE? Anyone may apply - There are no academic or other pre-requisites.

                               See the application PDF for current portfolio requirements (to be published online shortly).

                               All students must enroll full-time for this 9-week course, held in our
                                new Paris Program Studio in Montmartre, and the Musee du Louvre.

TUITION PRICE: 1975 euros = two consecutive 4-week terms (9 weeks total, with a one-week vacation)
                          Figure sessions 16.5 hours per week; one individual Louvre critique per week, alternating instructors

                         Nine weeks of housing in Paris not included.
                          Students required to find and contract their own housing in Paris.

WHEN to APPLY: The application PDF is now available for download from the HOW to APPLY page!

                            The priority application deadline is ~~September~~ August 30, 2010.

                            Click HERE for details on HOW to APPLY, and for a link to download the application PDF.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: "Winter at the Louvre - Drawing Intensive 2011"

Our Winter at the Louvre - Drawing Intensive program is a new Studio Escalier curriculum and exclusive educational opportunity for arts professionals, emerging artists and art students, offered in co-operation with the Musee du Louvre, Paris.

It offers a unique 8-week curriculum of daily drawing in our new Paris Program Studio in Montmartre, with additional museum lectures and weekly critique of ongoing student drawings executed on-site at the Louvre.

Figure studio will be in-session for 8 weeks, Monday - Friday, 16.5 hrs weekly (3 mornings per week, and all day Tuesday)

The course will offer lecture-demonstrations on Tuesday mornings, and critique will be given in the studio 3-4 sessions per week.

Figure poses will vary in length between 10 minutes and two weeks (30+ hrs.), depending on the principles being discussed and taught.

The course will offer a structured curriculum of daily figure drawing from life every morning, with additional assigned drawing from masterpieces of sculpture in the Louvre, to be pursued in the afternoons, outside of class.

One-on-one critiques of student work will be given weekly at the Musee du Louvre, with one or the other instructor. One-on-one critiques will be scheduled in advance, 30 minutes maximum per individual, once a week.

Louvre critics will alternate their schedule every week. (Example: Half the class (Group A) will have Louvre critiques every Monday, meeting with Tully the first week. The other half (Group B) will have Louvre critiques every Wednesday, meeting with Stotz the first week. The following week, the critics will switch their Louvre-crit days, to exchange their respective groups.)

The sculpture halls and painting galleries of the Louvre are also open Wednesday and Friday evenings until 9:45pm, for independent drawing and occasional lectures by faculty - dates and times TBA.

Louvre lectures will place special emphasis on 18th c French sculpture, and paintings of the 16th - 17th c. Italian, French and Flemish schools, especially as they relate to the evolution of drawing in the French School and School of Paris, 17th - 20th c.

With current Studio Escalier ID, all enrolled Paris Intensive students may apply for a yearly student or professional membership (costs 25 - 55 euros), to enter and draw in the Louvre daily, at no further cost.

FACULTY

The Winter at the Louvre - Drawing Intensive 2011 will be team-taught by the artists Timothy Stotz and Nicole Michelle Tully.

Full-time faculty will occasionally work alongside students as fellow artists, producing both drawings and paintings.

See our FACULTY page for instructor biographies and additional portfolio images.

DRAWINGS by PREVIOUS WINTER at the LOUVRE STUDENTS