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Home , Art in Paris, Bois de Boulogne, Jardin des Plantes

MAKING IN APRIL 21 – 30, 2020

An alumni travel opportunity led by Professors Bruce Allen & David Havird

Draw and write your way through Paris in April. What’s included Four Tuesday evenings (8 hours) of basic “how to” • Instruction including 4 pre-departure meetings (8 instruction on the college’s campus or online will hours) (7-9 PM on March 24, March 31, April 7, and precede our departure. Instruction will continue in April 14) • Lodging: 8 nights, double occupancy at Hotel Des Paris, where our “learning aids” will include the famous Nations St. Germain or comparable hotel (For single sites as well as the art at the , the Orsay, and occupancy add $510.) other , and where, in the city’s gardens and • Meals: 8 breakfasts, 2 dinners cafés, you’ll respond to the sensations of Paris with • Métro tickets: 1 carnet (10 tickets) drawings and poems of your own. Paris has long been • Museums: 4-day Pass + admission to a magnet for artists, visual artists and artists of the Fondation Louis Vuitton with guide written word. Whether you’ve ever drawn a picture or • Daytrip (transportation, admission): Giverny, Monet’s written a line of verse, for a week in April you’ll be an House and Gardens • Centenary Travel Insurance artist in Paris.

What’s not included • Airfare and transfers to and from destination / hotel • Supplemental travel insurance (for example: trip Cost: $1,750 cancellation coverage) Payment Terms and Conditions • Self-guided activities $500 deposit due at time of registration. This • Meals on your own • Gratuities includes a $250 non-refundable cancellation fee. In the • Books: event that, due to failure to reach a minimum number Fragos, Emily, ed. Poems of Paris. Everyman’s of tour participants (excluding the tour leaders), it is Library, 2019. necessary to cancel the tour, you will receive a full Franck, Frederick. The Zen of Seeing: Seeing / refund of your deposit. Full balance due no later than Drawing as Meditation. Vintage, 1973. January 2, 2020. No refunds will be offered following the final payment. Participants will be responsible for their own roundtrip air transportation and transfers to and from the hotel. For more information, please contact Saige Solomon The Paris portion of the course will begin at 9 o’clock at [email protected] or 318.869.5115. on April 23 (Thursday morning). Sample Itinerary

Note: There will be one drawing challenge and one writing challenge for Days 2–7. If not daily, whenever possible—for instance, when we can gather in one of the gardens—there will readings from our anthology, Poems of Paris. You’ll also be able to visit sites on your own—see suggestions for self-guiding below.

Day 1: Wednesday (Arrive in Paris) Arrival Paris (morning); Orientation (afternoon): Roman arena, (); Left Bank; group lunch or dinner (TBD)

Day 2: Thursday Orsay Museum; Saint-Sulpice; Luxembourg Gardens Suggestions for self-guiding: Panthéon; Cluny Museum; Ménagerie (Jardin des Plantes)

Day 3: Friday Louvre; Tuileries; Orangerie Museum Suggestions for self-guiding: ; Avenue des Champs-Élysées

Day 4: Saturday Delacroix Museum; Rodin Museum Suggestions for self-guiding: (’s tomb);

Day 5: Sunday Pompidou Center Suggestions for self-guiding: Picasso Museum; Saint-Eustache; Sainte-Chapelle

Day 6: Monday Fondation Louis Vuitton; Suggestions for self-guiding: Trocadéro, Eiffel Tower

Day 7: Tuesday Giverny, Monet’s House and Gardens (daytrip)

Day 8: Wednesday Luxembourg Gardens for “show and tell”; group dinner Suggestions for self-guiding: Père Lachaise Cemetery; Sacré-Coeur; (Paris Opera)

Day 9: Thursday (Depart Paris) If you’d like, you may also extend your stay abroad beyond the specified departure date on your own. Our group will check out of our Paris hotel on this date.