Located in the southern hills of France near Avignon, this program provides serious art students with intensive study that combines studio and analytic work. Participants take courses in art history, poetry, psychology of art, adn French. Each student is also given outdoor studio space to pursue her or his own work in drawing, painting, and sculpture. Some materials are provided but students are required to provide paints, brushes, and canvases. The program also includes evening lectures by guest artists and weekend excursions.
Students live and work in the school's seventeeth-century buildings.
Fall, spring, or year. The program offers an individually adapted curriculum combined with a complete immersion into French educational, cultural, and family life. Housing is with French families. The equivalent of two years of college French is required. April 1, October 30.