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.

Images From Trip

Click link to view images from China Sampler 3/8 - 3/17/2012.
China Sampler Images 

Itinerary
Day 1 - Tian'men Square, National Museum, Wanfujimen, Duck Dinner, Haidan District

Day 2 - Studio visit: Wang Qingsong, Caochangdi District
Galleries: Pekin Fine Art, Platform, Mizuno Plus One. Jintian Museum, Chaoyang District.
Dinner at Tsinghua University. Engineering Students' Art Clubs (Dance and Music)at Tsinghua.

Day 3 - Studio visit: Yang Qian, Fejiacun District
Today Museum, Chayong District. Snuff bottle demo and snacks in Haidan District.

Day 4 - Studio visit: Bingyi Huang, Second Ring
 Central Academy of Fine Art and Dashanzi 798 near the Airport Road

Day 5 - Forbidden City, National Museum, Peking Opera, First Ring

Day 6 - Wei Baogong at Songzhuang Village / tour 798's Longmarch Gallery
Hongquiao Market for dongxi, Hong Theatre for acrobatics

Day 7 - Mutinayu Great Wall
Xin Yeh Xio dinner at Gates Mall, Haidan District

Happy Holidays China Travelers!!

January 10th, 2012

Please note:   A visa information workshop will be held during your pre-program session  on Tuesday January 10^th, 2012 (FAH  132, 3:30pm-6:15pm).  At this time, someone from the Education Abroad Office will review in detail the China visa application process and requirements.  The Education Abroad Office will be responsible for sending all passports and visa applications together to the visa processing service, and will have them all sent back to our office.   On receipt of returned passports with visas, Education Abroad will notify you to pick them up from the EA Office.

Flight and class information

We dedicate the first class meeting to visa applications and send them, bundled, to a consolidator. I urge everyone to attend this meeting to meet the group, the Study Abroad folk who have helped us, and to process the visas. For those enrolled over 2 credits, China Sampler meets on alternating Tuesdays from 3:30 - 6:15 PM in FAH Room 132.

1/10 - visa applications (Study Abroad folks will join us)
1/24 - TBA
2/07 - Taliesin Thomas, AW Asia - YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THIS!!
She will speak on contemporary Chinese art.
2/21 - TBA
Beijing 3/8-3/17
3/27 - TBA
4/10 - Summary

We'll use the class time for lectures and discussion about China. For 2 credit extended studies students the class is optional; however, the lineup is compelling: Taliesin Thomas, Director, AW Asia New York (linked to the right), Shannon Bassett, Assistant Professor, USF Architecture, Jeanne Travers, USF Theatre & Dance and Kun Shi, Director of the USF Confucius Institute have agreed to visit our class and discuss their relationship to Chinese culture. Thomas will discus contemporary Chinese art; Bassett, her proposal for an exhibit and installation for the Hong-Kong Shenzhen biennale on urbanism/architecture debuting in February 2012, for which she will travel to China; Travers, Chinese dance traditions that she has studied and presented at Minzu University in Beijing, and Kun Shi, ethnic shamanism in China.

Stay tuned: reading film lists will be posted to Blackboard soon.

Have a wonderful break, everyone and do not hesitate to email with any questions or concerns here, or at efc@usf.edu.

Stefany Martinez of China Sampler, with the USF Health Orchestra!

"USF Health Orchestra" will be playing on Monday Dec 12th at the Nursing Rotunda from 12:15 to 1pm, featuring our very own Stefany Martinez!