Arts & Culture of Florence: Pre-Departure Sketchbook Experiments!
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Arts & Culture of Florence: Pre-Departure Sketchbook Experiments!

Student of the Arts & Culture of Florence Summer 2023 JBIP trip explored Florence, Italy throughout the Spring 2023 semester through the maintenance of a sketchbook. Scans and student-written reflections from this process are included in this pre-departure article!

Image: Scan from the Sketchbook of Graphic Design Student Ethan Davies.

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Queens Students Investigate “Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds.”
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Queens Students Investigate “Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds.”

Explore the creative exercises which shaped Queens University of Charlotte’s experimental museum partnership course, “Picasso Museum Practicum,” by peering into the sketchbooks of each student engaged with the course during the Spring 2023 semester.

Image: Student Alie Feid’s sketchbook interpretation of “La Rue-des-Bois,” Pablo Picasso, 1908.

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“Florentine Poems.” Four Poems Inspired by a Student’s Trip to Florence.
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“Florentine Poems.” Four Poems Inspired by a Student’s Trip to Florence.

Recently-graduated Queens student Brooke Wright visited Florence, Italy through a faculty-led program in Summer 2022, courtesy of Queens University of Charlotte’s John Belk International Program (JBIP). This program focused on Florentine literature, but she found herself captivated by the art she learned about and was exposed to during her trip. These poems resulted from such interdisciplinary inspiration.

Image: “Birth of Venus,” Sandro Botticelli. Tempera on canvas, 1485.

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