Art Field Trip 2011 - New York

February 19 - Mar 27, 2011

Program Overview

Feb 19, Saturday

Afternoon: Ferry to Vancouver

Evening: Depart for Manhattan from YVR Vancouver; overnight flight to NYC

Feb 20, Sunday

Morning: Arrive in NYC early morning. Drop bags at hotel then free-time

Afternoon: Walking tour of architecture, parks and other famous places

Feb 21, Monday

Morning: Museum of Design

Afternoon: Guggenheim Museum

Feb 22, Tuesday

All Day Metropolitan Museum of Art

Feb 23, Wednesday

walking over Brooklyn Bridge Morning: Free time or optional walking tour of Chelsea and Soho

Afternoon: Free Time

Feb 24, Thursday

Morning: Whitney Museum of American Art

Afternoon: The Frick Museum

Feb 25, Friday

Morning & Early afternoon: Museum of Modern Art

Feb 26, Saturday

Morning & Afternoon: Free Time

Evening: depart from JFK Manhattan for Vancouver and arrive just after midnight. Overnight in a hotel near Vancouver Airport

Feb 27, Sunday

Morning: Ferry to Nanaimo

Dates

Spring break: February 21 - February 27, 2011

Flight details:

Depart Vancouver Int’l Airport - Sat Feb 19 at 9:45 pm, arriving in NYC at 6 am (Cathay Pacific #888)

Depart NYC – Sat Feb 26 at 9:45 pm, arriving in Vancouver at 1 am (Cathay Pacific #889)

Cost

Price is $2020 based on a minimum group size of 20, and includes: scene

6 nights in New York (quad share - 4 people per room, sharing beds)
1 night in Richmond on return (quad share - 4 people per room, sharing beds)
Round trip transfers - ferry terminal and Vancouver Int'l Airport
Round trip arrival/departure transfers in NYC
Daily breakfast at hotel
Subway passes in NYC
Entrances to 7 museums (MOM, MET, Cloistersm, Guggenheim, Cooper-Hewitt, Frick, Whitney Museum of Modern Art

The price does NOT include:

Lunches, dinners and personal entertainment/shopping
Passport (required for everyone except US citizens) must be valid until end of August 2011
Visas, if required (not required for Canadian citizens)
Out-of-country medical insurance (All travellers who do not purchase the all-inclusive insurance will be required to provide proof of out-of-country medical insurance, valid for travel in the USA, before departure)
2-hour walking tour of galleries in Chelsea and Soho districts - additional $26
2-hour walking tour to look at architecture, parks and other famous places (eg. Ground Zero, Radio City, Rockefeller Center, Park Avenue, etc) - additional $26

Other options:

Twin share – add $395 per person
Single supplement – add $765 per person

(NOTE) All-Inclusive Insurance:

The all-inclusive insurance provided by Adventures Abroad must be purchased at the time you sign up for the tour for the price of $150. If you do not purchase this insurance all the fees you pay for the Art Tour must be considered non-refundable. The All-Inclusive Insurance will cover medical expenses should something happen while you are in New York. If you cancel before departure for an insurable risk such as sickness, accident/injury, or death in the family, everything paid will be refundable.If the tour has already begun, you would be refunded for the parts you are not able to complete. If your flights are delayed due to weather or technical problems or if you cannot get to the airport because your ferry was late or the bus broke down or if there was a traffic jam, you would be paid for the portions missed and be given an allowance to catch up to the trip.

Eligibility

Group solidarity is important to group safety, group comfort and academic performance. Students will be expected to:

Behave responsibly and conduct themselves in accordance with VIU's Student Conduct Policy;
Sign the "Acknowledgement of Responsibility and Liability Waiver" form;
Meet the financial obligations of the trip and make their payments on time
Complete an interview with departmental faculty.

Priority will be given to: Art majors; students who have not been on the NYC tour in the past; and upper level students. Applicants may be interviewed.

Application Procedure

November 5, 2010

Application Procedure: To secure your spot on the Art Tour, complete an application package (forms include Education Abroad application, self-assessment, waiver, and cancellation & refund policy) and bring these, along with your $500 non-refundable deposit, to the Education Abroad office in Building 255, by the application deadline.

Payments

Date	Amount	Forms of payment accepted
October 10 (not confirmed yet)	$500 (plus $150 if purchasing the all-inclusive insurance)	personal cheque, debit, cash, money order
December 19	$1520.00	debit, cash, money order

Date

Amount

Forms of payment accepted

October 10

(not confirmed yet)

$500 (plus $150 if purchasing the all-inclusive insurance)

personal cheque, debit, cash, money order

December 19

$1520.00

debit, cash, money order

inside museum

Contacts

Audrey Hansen, International Education, educationabroad@viu.ca

Descriptions of Museums

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Part of the Smithsonian Institution, it is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming.

Guggenheim Museum. Frank Lloyd Wright's stunning architectural achievement is home to one of the world's finest collections of modern and contemporary art including works by Chagall, Degas, Kadinsky, Picasso and Van Gogh as well as changing special exhibitions.

Museum of Modern Art or MoMA. From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include 135,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 22,000 films, videos and media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters and historical documents, as well as 200,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, all part of the Museum's library. The Museum began to collect photographs in 1930 and established the department in 1940; its holdings of more than 25,000 works dating from approximately 1840 to the present constitute one of the most important collections of photography in the world. As diverse as photography itself, the collection includes work not only by artists, but also by journalists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and amateurs. The Cloisters is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Known affectionately to New Yorkers as the MET, here you will have a chance to view more than 6,500 works of art from the Metropolitan's permanent collection and enjoy the first of many expert guided tours from their professor, Art Perry. Among its many masterpieces are exceptional assemblages of the work of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; of the French Impressionists (the Museum owns thirty-seven Monets and twenty-one oil paintings by Cézanne); and of Vermeer, whose five canvases at the Metropolitan surpass the number at any other museum in the world.

Whitney Museum. The permanent collection has long been acknowledged as its principal asset. Since the Museum's opening in 1931, the collection has grown to more than 12,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs, representing nearly 2,000 individual artists and providing the most complete overview of twentieth-century American art of any museum in the world. The collection is also recognized for its in-depth commitment to a number of key artists. From the first half of the century, such seminal figures as Edward Hopper, Alexander Calder, Reginald Marsh, and Stuart Davis are richly represented. In the latter half of the century, the Museum has committed considerable resources toward acquiring a large body of works by Louise Nevelson, Agnes Martin, Claes Oldenburg, Alex Katz, Ad Reinhardt, and others. By dedicating two entire floors to the display of the permanent collection, the Museum reaffirms the collection's central role in the Whitney Museum experience.

SoHo is an acronym for SOuth of HOuston Street. This eclectic neighborhood in lower Manhattan had a long history before becoming New York City's artistic haven, first as a district of warehouses and store fronts, then a seedy, sweatshop-filled slum know as "hell's hundred acres", and finally the residential, commercial, and artistic community it is today.