2025 New York City Trip
March 15-20, 2025
Over the course of five days, undergraduate students visit artist studios and sites such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library and Museum, and the Whitney Museum to experience, discuss, and interact with works in the museums and collections of New York. This is meant to be an invigorating, engaging, and entertaining trip for art history majors or any student with a demonstrable interest in the history of art and the world of its making, curation, and exchange.
Students are asked to cover only their meals and subway fares. Airfare, transportation to and from airports, hotel, and museum admittance are all covered by the Department.
The New York trip is open to current Rice University undergraduate art history majors and any undergraduate student with a demonstrable interest in the history of art. Students will be asked to fill out an application to be considered for the trip.
Led by Assistant Professors Denva Gallant and Olivia Young.
Denva Gallant is an internationally-recognized scholar and specialist in European medieval art and architecture, with an emphasis on manuscript illumination and the figural arts of the Trecento. Her scholarly work explores issues of narrative, the rise of the eremitic ideal as exemplum virtutis, environmental imaginaries (such as the desert), race and ethnicity in late medieval Italy and issues of patronage in the Middle Ages.
Olivia Young is an interdisciplinary scholar of African Diaspora Studies whose interests are contemporary art, visual culture, black cultural history, queer theory, black feminisms, performance studies, and disability studies.
How to apply:
Fill out the Adobe Sign application, which should include an unofficial copy of your transcript and a 500-word statement of interest explaining your reasons for wanting to participate in the New York Spring Break 2023 trip. Include information about courses you have taken or anticipate taking at Rice that would support or be supported by the trip, the relevance to your major(s) or minor(s), and/or other relevant experiences or motivating factors.
Instructions for new Adobe Sign form: Fill out the application form below and upload the required documents within the form. Then, sign and click submit at bottom of page. Fill out the pop-up window with YOUR name and Rice email. You must check your email and approve the email from Adobe Sign or the application will not be submitted.
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Questions? Email arthist@rice.edu.