Undergraduate Studies Florence & Venice Italy

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES FLORENCE & VENICE ITALY

saci-florence.edu UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

SACI’S UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS offer rare opportunities to experience one of the greatest artistic and cultural centers of the world.

In Florence, you’ll engage with a thriving art community, rich in Renaissance and contemporary art. Partnerships with local museums, galleries, and artists will provide you with hands-on experience through class projects. SACI-supported volunteer opportunities will connect you with the local community. You’ll also have numerous travel opportunities as part of class field trips with faculty to cities throughout Italy.

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In both Fall and Spring, you can enroll in Each summer term SACI offers a special SACI’s extensive range of fully-accredited four or five courses for a total of 15 credits. 4-week Summer Venice program, in a city studio and media arts, design, conservation, If you are an advanced student, you may be renowned for its artistic masterpieces as art history, Italian culture and language eligible for credited internships at design well as for its celebration of innovative courses provides you a breadth of class firms, museums, or galleries. contemporary art with works from art options to meet your individual educational makers from around the globe. You earn needs and connect you directly with the SACI has two beautiful palaces in the 3 credits for Digital Photography and rich cultural heritage of Italy. Immersion center of Florence, and you will have the 3 credits for Contemporary Art (either in the art, design, and culture of Florence opportunity to exhibit your artwork in SACI’s Contemporary Art: Biennale and Beyond will enable you to broaden and deepen the unique galleries. Both the Fall and Spring or Contemporary Art in Historic Venice - in scope of your scholarship and allow you to semesters culminate in major exhibitions alternating years based on when the Venice build a portfolio of inspiring work. which provide students the opportunity to Art Biennale takes place). You also have the display their work to the public. option of a Full Summer Florence + Venice The majority of our study abroad students term where you first spend 5 weeks, from While studying at SACI, Florence will are enrolled in degree programs at colleges mid-May to late June in Florence and then become your classroom. Field trips and universities throughout the USA. SACI shift to Venice for 4 weeks, from the end of throughout Tuscany and elsewhere in Italy also welcomes students enrolled outside of June to late July. This option provides an are an integral and deeply rewarding part of the US, as well as independent students. opportunity for you to live and learn in two the SACI experience. Sites that are typically of the world’s most evocative cities for art visited include Venice, Rome, Milan, Naples, Since 1975, over 12,000 students and culture. have benefited from the life-changing Bologna, Pisa, Lucca, Ravenna, Siena, and many more. educational experience provided by SACI. This program offers an exceptional You will have the opportunity to attend opportunity to participate in among the FLORENCE, SACI, & YOU numerous field trips with your classes as most prestigious contemporary art and well as additional trips open to all students architecture events around the globe— enrolled in the program. Tuition covers the the Venice Art Biennale in odd-numbered At SACI, you will be immersed in the rich art cost of all required class field trips and years and the Biennale of Architecture and design culture of Italy: museum entrances. in even years. You will explore Venice’s storied museums and visit contemporary • SACI’s facilities are located in the art, design, and architecture exhibitions heart of Florence, just steps away from FLORENCE SUMMER ABROAD while learning the fundamentals of digital Michelangelo’s renowned sculptures photography. You will have the chance to in the Medici Chapel, Fra’ Angelico’s SACI’s Summer I term runs for 5 weeks take part in photo shoots during class field masterpieces in the Museum of San from mid-May through June, and SACI’s outings and be encouraged to develop your Marco, the colorful Central Market, and Summer II term is a 4 week program that peronsal artistic vision and an awareness of Brunelleschi’s great Duomo. commences in late June and extends through July. You can take two courses for a photography as a language while creating a high-quality portfolio. • In addition to traveling to many famous total of 6 credits per term. A third term, Full Italian cities, you will visit Florentine Summer, is offered over a 10-week period museums and historic sites on numerous from mid-May to late July and allows you to COURSES SACI sponsored field trips. receive 12 credits for four courses earned over a two-block period. This session • You will go to artists’ and designers’ provides a price discount making a Full The following courses are offered by SACI studios, private collections, galleries, art Summer in Florence financially accessible. though courses may be limited each term fairs, and theaters. Florence posseses among the the world’s and on the basis of student registration. finest artistic treasures, and Florentine • You will have special access to modern weather is at its best in these summer 2D Studio Art and historic art collections, research months. Combine this with a surrounding Drawing • Etching • Fresco Painting libraries, and contemporary art museums. Tuscan landscape of vineyards, olive groves, Painting • Serigraphy and villas framed with cypress trees, and • You will have opportunities to create Florence provides an ideal environment for artwork as part of collaborations with a transformative personal and educational 3D Studio Art local institutions, and to restore major art experience. Ceramics • Sculpture Crafts Language & Literature COLLABORATIONS Batik • Book Arts Creative Writing Workshop Jewelry Design • Weaving Italian Language Beyond the classroom, institutional collaborations and community outreach Art Conservation Summer Venice in Florence and Tuscany are the Conservation Law, Business & Management Contemporary Art: Biennale & Beyond staples of SACI life and learning. SACI’s Conservation of Archaeological Artifacts Contemporary Art in Historic Venice collaborations connect students with Diagnostic Techniques for Conservators Digital Photography some of Italy’s most renowned museums Mural Conservation and institutions, blurring boundaries Painting Conservation among art, design, fashion, anthropology, INTERNSHIPS science, and history to develop Design independent and innovative artists with Architectural Drawing • Design Internship In the Fall, Spring, and Summer I terms, a deep knowledge and awareness of Graphic Design • Illustration • Infographics advanced students can undertake a Design contemporary and historical culture in a Interactive Art & Design • Interior Design Internship for 3 credits. In the Spring term, rapidly changing world. Italian Fashion Design • Typography students who have completed Museology at Visual Design SACI can undertake a Museology Internship SACI study abroad students enrolled in for 3 credits. SACI Internships are limited specific courses have collaborated in Multidisciplinary Studio and highly selective. projects with the Galleria dell’Accademia, Body Archives Bargello Musei, La Specola Museum Installation & Performance Art If you have completed at least one of National History, the Museum of advanced-level course in the proposed area Anthropology, Museo del Tessuto, Museo Art History, Museology, of the Internship, you can be considered for degli Innocenti, the Pergola Theater, the and Cinema Studies a Design Internship in one of the following National Archaeological Museum, the areas: 19th-Century European & Italian Art History Salvatore Ferragamo Museum, Palazzo Strozzi, and the Marino Marini Museum. Baroque & Rococo Art History • Architecture Contemporary European & Italian Art • Communications Contemporary Art Theory & Criticism • Graphic Design HOUSING Early Renaissance Art History • Illustration High Renaissance Art History • Interior Design SACI apartments are located in Florence’s History of Italian Cinema • Lighting Design historic center, near SACI’s educational Modern European & Italian Art History facilities. Many are notable for their Museology • Museology Internship Museology Internships enable SACI murals and Old-World charm. Renaissance Art History Survey students to gain direct museum Women & the Arts in Italy experience and learn firsthand how a They are fully furnished and will enable world-class museum functions. Internship you to live independently. All apartments Visual Media opportunities are offered at the Marino have living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, Animation • Digital Multimedia Marini Museum in Florence. A working washing machines, and kitchens Photography • Video knowledge of Italian is required. equipped with stoves, ovens, refrigerators, dishware, and cooking utensils. Units also saci students in front of pa l a z zo dei cartel l oni include WiFi. Reasonable use of utilities is covered by SACI’s Housing Fee.

You can choose to stay in a double or single bedroom in a shared apartment. There is a supplemental Housing Fee for students who select a single bedroom.

ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION TO SACI

If you are an undergraduate student in good standing at any college or university, and possess a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.75 or equivalent, you are eligible to apply to any of SACI’s study abroad programs.

If you are an independent US or international student who meets equivalent standards, you are also eligible to apply. saci student in a saci painting studio

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Study abroad is an investment in your future from which you will achieve lifelong rewards. SACI strives hard to make study abroad an achievable goal for every student. Typically financial aid received from a US college or university can be transferred to cover fees for study at SACI.

SACI additionally awards scholarships both on a merit and needs basis to students each term. Applicants to all SACI for-credit programs may apply for SACI scholarships. For more information about SACI scholarships, please visit our website at: www.saci-florence.edu

DEADLINES

All applications are reviewed on a rolling admissions basis. Applicants improve their pospects for admission by submitting applications early.

Applications received beyond the indicated deadlines will only be considered if space is still available in the selected term/study program.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

Fall Semester (including Academic Year Abroad Program) June 15

Spring Semester November 1

Summer I / Full Summer: Florence Full Summer: Florence + Venice April 1

Summer II / Summer Venice saci student in t he saci scul pture studio May 15

APPLICATION PROCESS SCHOLARSHIPS DEADLINES The following is a list of requirements for a have been out of school for more than complete application: Fall Semester three years, or if your native language is (including Academic Year Abroad Program) not English.) • The completed online application form March 15 including a $70 US non-refundable You are automatically eligible for courses processing fee. at the Intermediate or Advanced level Spring Semester • An official copy of transcripts from all or for courses with prerequisites if your October 15

post-secondary institutions you have home school’s transcript lists the required Summer I / Full Summer: Florence attended. prerequisites for these courses. Full Summer: Florence + Venice • A completed Study Abroad Advisor When the prerequisites have not been met, March 1 Form. (Check the SACI website for other a portfolio of at least 6 artworks is essential requirements if you are not currently so SACI can determine if you are eligible for Summer II / Summer Venice enrolled in an academic institution, if you the course. March 1 SACI IS FOR FURTHER A United States non-profit 501(c) Recognized in Italy by the Ministry INFORMATION CONTACT (3) educational entity incorporated of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry Studio Arts College International Studio Arts College International in 1976 of Universities as a foreign non- (New York) (Florence) profit university-level program 454 W 19th St Palazzo dei Cartelloni A directly accredited institutional New York, NY 10011 Via Sant’Antonino 11 member of the National Students who would like to receive USA 50123 Florence, Italy Association of Schools of Art and a copy of SACI’s accreditation, T: (212) 248-7225 T: (39) 055-289948 Design (NASAD) licensure, and/or approval should F: (212) 248-7222 F: (39) 055-2776408 send a signed request for such E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Affiliated with Bowling Green State material to SACI’s Dean. University (BGSU) in Ohio, which is accredited by NASAD and by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools