Chinese Landscapes: Info Sessions Tuesday 11/20 at 12 N and 6 PM FAH 132

Chinese Landscapes Information Sessions:
Tuesday 11/20 12 Noon
Tuesday 11/20 06 PM
FAH 132

Chinese Landscape is offered under the following course numbers:
"Theme Studio:  Chinese Landscape" ART 4806
"Extended Studies China Sampler" ART 4940
"Independent Study Chinese Sampler" ART 6907 (Grad)

"Directed Studies" ART 4905 (Undergrad)

Four pre-departure lectures include an intro section on Chinese language, contemporary Chinese art, Chinese urban design, Chinese composition in art, architecture and urban design. We will record or Skype these lectures for off-campus students unable to attend the lectures on Tuesdays 4-7 pm.

For those in other departments it is possible to interweave art within your area of study for research purposes; as one example, how might Chinese composition apply to principles in Chinese medicine?

Scroll down for previous posts that describe our itinerary in China, plus Study Abroad application and payment information.

ITINERARY

Arrive Beijing Friday @ midnight.
We stay in a Courtyard hotel on the Second Ring, near hutongs, restaurants and shops, both international and local

Saturday:
Local sites on foot and subway. Bell and Drum Towers, hutongs, Wangfujimen.
Group dinner in the evening.

Sunday:
Bus to Cao Chang Di art district for studio visits. An intensive day visiting six of Beijing's best artists. A crucial component to the course.

Monday:
Olympic Park, including Bird Nest and Water Cube, free afternoon.
Chinese Opera in the evening. Opera useful for placement, tone and pace in Chinese composition.

Tuesday:
Forbidden City including the scrolls at Palace Museum.
Afternoon options include museums and Pearl Market.

Wednesday:
Bus to Great Wall, Dingling and Changling Tombs, Great Wall Commune--architectural designs by leading practitioners.

Thursday:
Subway to Sanlitun with two visits to leading architectural firms. A crucial component to the course.

Friday:
Subway to Beijing Zoo and Summer Palace with lecture.
Bus to 798 Art Zone in afternoon.
Farewell duck dinner (with vegetarian options) in evening.

Saturday:
Airport.

I want to go! Money, forms, timing information.

For more course information and basic itinerary, consult Study Abroad link to your right.
Today's Information Session answers are below:

1.

 There is a $500 deposit to “Commit” to the program.  Pay the deposit the week you “Commit” to the program. November 5th is the current "Commit" deadline.
1a.
Because we travel together from TPA to PEK, the earlier the commitment, the better our fares. Prepare to book flight in early to mid December.
2.

A Course Approval Form, downloadable from the Study Abroad site linked to the right, is necessary to be "Accepted" into the program. The form must be signed by Shannon Bassett or Elisabeth Condon.

 3.

The remainder of course payment transpires on a 30,60,90 day system. Payments are designated to Study Abroad via voucher and made like any other USF course.
3a. 
Direct any unusual and/or highly specific questions re: Study Abroad financial arrangements to: Frances Bryant at Francesb@iac.usf.edu. 
3b.
Studies Abroad will work with financial aid recipients to apply program fees when Financial aid is issued in the Spring Semester. However, this does not include the $500.00 required deposit by November 5, 2012. The $500 deposit MUST be paid at that time.  

 4.

Total course cost = 1960 USD. 
This including: (1) Two faculty leading program this year; (2) Tuition; and (3) Tourist Visa. Plane fare is additional - assume total expenditure @ 3,500 USD.

 5.
Study Abroad Scholarship application deadline = November 1^st, 2012 for spring.  You must be "Committed" to apply for a Scholarship. Scholarships offer between 500 - 1,000. Chinese Landscapes is a spring registration course so Bright Futures applies.

6.

Once you “Commit”, we assume you are 100% and will go REGARDLESS of scholarship.  Review CANCELLATION/REFUND policies on the Study Abroad website, linked right.

 7.

Regretfully, employee tuition waivers do not apply for this program.

8. 
Non-USF students are welcome to join this course. Enroll as a USF degree or non-degree seeking student and select Chinese Landscapes once enrolled.
Non-degree: http://www.registrar.usf.edu/regurl/os/application
Degree: http://usfweb2.usf.edu/admissions/ 
8.a.
Reading and film lists will be distributed early December.
8.b. 
Times for the four pre-course sessions will be announced soon. 
  

If you have further questions, email Shannon Bassett and Elisabeth Condon (emails below) or post in the dialogue box below. We continuously update this blog with new information, so be sure to check back. More information sessions will be announced soon to spread the word: China spring 2013! We will also post an itinerary very soon to review before the 11/05 deadline.

Shannon Bassett:
bassetts@usf.edu

Elisabeth Condon:
efc@usf.edu

Chinese Film Screening! Tuesday 10/23 6:00 PM MSC Oval Theatre

CENTRE GALLERY SHOW RECEPTION FRIDAY 10/19 WITH ORCHESTRA PERFORMANCE

Don't Miss This Show of paintings, collages, photography and sculpture from the 2012 spring break trip to Beijing!

USF's Centre Gallery, MSC: Link

Featuring: Deanna Larsen, Michael Covello, Johanna Keefe, Caroline Collette, Ariel DeWitt, Tammy To, Carly Johnston, Elisabeth Condon and Ruchama Lubin with a performance by Stefany Martinez, who will perform with the Public Health Orchestra from 7:30 to 8:00 PM. The reception is 7 to 9.

For those interested in the spring 2013 Chinese Landscapes Course bring questions and meet those who have traveled to China before!

IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES

Chinese Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival Celebration
Sunday, September 30th
7:00pm 
MSC Ballroom, USF Tampa campus

Sampling moon cakes + tea, 70 minutes of cultural performances by students and local artists, and enjoy under the fullest moon of the year...

CHINESE LANDSCAPES INFO SESSION

Wednesday October 3rd, 2012

7:00 pm

FAH 227, USF Tampa Campus

Shannon Bassett and Elisabeth Condon will present the course, so bring all of your questions!

CHINESE LANDSCAPES INFO SESSION

Wednesday October 24, 2012

12:00 noon

FAH 227, USF Tampa Campus

Shannon Bassett and Elisabeth Condon will present the course, so bring all of your questions! 

Introducing Chinese Landscapes, Spring Break 2013! (March 7 - 17, 2013)

Shannon Bassett, MAUD, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and Elisabeth Condon, MFA, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, present CHINESE LANDSCAPES in spring 2013. Art & Art History, Architecture/undergraduate, Urban and Community Design, Regional Planning, Global School of Sustainability, Honors College and all other students throughout the University and beyond are invited to join us on a semester-long course with a travel component in Beijing during spring break 2013.

We deliver preparatory readings and lectures in four class meetings before the trip. There are also two orientation courses through Study Abroad. In a post-travel course meeting, students share a five-page research paper on a topic of their choice from the readings, lectures or trip in tandem with a visual presentation that involves photo, video, webcam, podcast or drawing. Course content focuses on urbanism in a post-Olympic Beijing via architecture, urban planning and visual art, overlayed with earlier incarnations of previous shifts such as landscape scrolls and the Opera.

Itinerary includes:
Summer Palace, with a lecture on the landscape architecture of the Summer Palace

Old Summer Palace-Yu Yuan, ravished by Imperial Forces during the Boxer Rebellion

Urban Planning and Exhibition Museum

Dashanzi 798 District, where we'll see factories turned art galleries in the former East German factory district designed in the original Bauhause style (and while there, visit Ullens Art Center, Longmarch Gallery, Pace Beijing and other international galleries).

Visit artist's studios (including Wang Qingsong) and talk with them personally about their experience and work in Cao Chang Di art district.


Additionally, you'll see Water Cube, Olympic Park Bird's Nest, Stephen Holl's Linked Hybrids, CCTV, Coal Mountain above the Forbidden City, Drum and Bell Towers, the Great Wall and Chinese Opera!

BIOS:
--> Shannon Bassett is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at USF SACD. There she teaches design studios and urban research workshops and has run urban design studios in China, collaborating with Tongji University School of Architecture and Urban Design in Shanghai and Tianjin University School of Architecture and Urban Design in Tianjin.  Her design and writing has been published in Topos, the International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Urban Flux (Beijing), Canadian Architect and Landscape Architecture China (forthcoming). She has exhibited her design work and research both internationally and nationally, including most recently at the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (2012). She was awarded a National_Endowment_for the Arts Grant for (re)stitch TAMPA, a research platform for designing the city with natural systems, with an ensuing book publication which she is currently working on.  She is also working on the following book publication, “Emerging Urban Landscapes in Contemporary China - Transformative Infrastructural Works” Design Ecologies, Infrastructures and Systems as Urbanism which will comprise of an edited anthology of writings and images on this topic. She holds a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Architecture from Carleton University.  Her urban design projects were published in New Orleans: Strategies for a City in a Soft Land (J.Busquets) and Two Squares (H.Sarkis).  She is an active board member of IACP (International Association for China Planning).

Elisabeth Condon is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing in USF’s School of Art & Art History and has taught as Visiting Artist in Residence at Bennington College, New School, Ringling School of Art & Design and University of Tennessee Knoxville, among others. She lectures on her work at numerous universities across the United States and teaches all modes of painting and drawing including Chinese painting techniques. Condon’s work is included in the 2012 Beijing Biennial at the National Art Museum of China and is represented by Lesley Heller Workspace, New York and Dorsch Gallery, Miami. Condon is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in addition to numerous university research grants. A keen traveler, she has participated in artist residencies in Somerset, Marseille, Beijing, Songzhuang, Taichung, Cadaques, Sarasota Springs and the National Parks Residency at the Grand Canyon. Condon considers travel an immersive teaching method that merges life experience and cultural context. Traveling with students to China overlaps her interests in Chinese history, landscape and art.