ART - POLI NEW YORK

ART - POLI Painting on Location International®

ART - POLI New York©

ART - POLI® WELCOMES YOU FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE!

ART - POLI® makes educational travel affordable for students, artists and the general public.

We keep our costs low and reasonable, without sacrificing quality, adventure or learning opportunities.

All of our programs offer scholarships, premier classes, workshops, faculty, housing, and individual innovative program choices for studying abroad.

Email us, ask for our brochure, attend one of our information sessions, or check out our Facebook pages.

Ask us, what we can do for you.

With six continents, hundreds of courses and years of experience, we will make your journey fun, educational and financially possible!

MISSION
ART - POLI's mission is to foster artistic development that enhances creativity, cognitive thinking and innovative ideas in an inspiring environment that stimulates intelligent dialogue and freedom of artistic expression.

ABOUT ART - POLI

ART - POLI is an educational travel program, residency and academy created by professor Georgetta Gancarz.

ART - POLI supports, nurtures and exposes the serious emerging, mid-career or advanced visual artist to a creative cross-cultural experience in the Fine Arts and Humanities, studying on location in Europe, USA, South America, Canada, Asia, Africa and Oceania.

ART - POLI provides long and short-term residencies, degree programs, affordable studio classes, critiques, workspace, exhibitions and an array of professional educational developmental services, as well as international exposure, networking and engaging in global understanding.

ART - POLI, invites artists of all levels to spend two weeks in NYC, painting and drawing on location.

Artists will also travel outside the city to the surrounding boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, to visit famous museums.

Residency will include art history and a local understanding of the region by tours and engaging in activities of the area. These include sketching in museums, galleries, the marketplace, and famous areas in New York City, as well as classes in photography on location, filmmaking, culinary studies, literature and creative writing.

ART - POLI works with colleges and universities to deliver affordable educational travel experiences to students. No fees are collected by ART - POLI. Schools charge and collect their tuition. Airfare and accommodation are paid directly to the arranged airline and housing.

ART - POLI offers travel discounts, excursions, grants, scholarship information, and a full immersive travel experience. All trips, including tuition, accommodation, airfare, and expeditions are under 3,000 dollars round trip from your home city. Some locations are less expensive.

OPTIONAL COLLEGE CREDIT

ART - POLI offers credit, certificate and non-credit courses.

Undergraduate and graduate degree programs are available, leading to an AA, BFA, and MFA through some of our sponsoring colleges.

ART - POLI New York is open to students studying on the college level.

ART - POLI also offers college credit to High School students over the age of sixteen.

Five to fifteen credits are available depending on your course of study.

ART - POLI Programs exists in over 20 countries, in 50 disciplines. 300 courses available.

Classes are available in painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, hand block printing, sculpture, glassblowing, bookbinding, papermaking, textiles, ceramics, tattoo design, architecture, restoration, jewelry, graphic design, art history, exhibiting and marketing art, art therapy, creative writing, literature, poetry, language, publishing, book arts, philosophy, fashion, music, film, television production, theater, dance, culinary, oenology studies, leather and wood crafting, mask making, perfume design, herbology, religion, yoga and meditation.

Financial aid is available and usually covers the course fee for credits only. This does not include airfare or lodging. ART - POLI accepts a variety of grants and scholarships from professional organizations or donors sponsoring artists. Scholarships or grants must be made directly to students, not ART – POLI. Students must use scholarships or awards for housing. Students pay housing fees directly to landlord and registration fees to sponsoring college.

*ALL students receive some award or discount for the Florence program through ART - POLI.

Programs start at $2000 for Non-Credit, Certificate and Returning Students!

ART - POLI Art Credit Student Scholarships (700 to 1,000 dollars off final program fee)

ART - POLI PAINT YOUR TOMORROW©
Offers high school students (ages 16 - 18) a $500 dollar scholarship toward ART - POLI Florence!
Every accepted high school applicant receives this award.

ART - POLI Travel / Research and Internship Program
Design your travel experience and have the freedom of pursuing a personalized career goal.
Create your own adventure, and let us give you the college credits!

Service Learning and Volunteer Abroad Opportunities

Professors and High School Teachers

Clock Hours

Sabbatical Research

Professional Learning

ART - POLI Senior Program
Offers seniors ages (55 and up) 10% discount on all ART - POLI programs.

ART - POLI REWARDS Program
Offers major discounts for returning ART - POLI students, up to 1,000 dollars off your total program fee!

For short stay non-credit programs contact the program director below.

For students wishing to obtain credit you must contact the program director.

Program Director Georgetta Gancarz at:

artpolinewyork@hotmail.com

Other ART - POLI programs available

For a list of ART - POLI sponsoring colleges and universities, and a full program booklet, please email director.

ART – POLI programs exist in the USA, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Canada, offered in Firenze, Venice, Murano, Siena, Rome, Carrara, Verona, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Malta, Portugal, Prague, Poland, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Iceland, Greece, Japan, India, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, LA, Vancouver, Victoria and Montreal.

ART - POLI includes critiques by professors and renowned artists and offers support and structure to the student and artist wanting to market their art in America and abroad. With an experienced resident faculty, ART - POLI offers many opportunities to explore, combine and learn new and existing methods of communication in the arts.

With an experienced resident faculty, ART - POLI offers many opportunities to explore, combine and learn new and existing methods of communication in the arts. Instructors in the program are professors in the Arts and Humanities with specializations in Painting, Drawing, Art History, Printmaking, Hand Block Printing, Sculpture, Textiles, Ceramics, Photography, Glassblowing, Architecture, Restoration, Tattoo Design, Exhibiting and Marketing Art, Art Therapy, Literature, Creative Writing, Language, Publishing, Book Arts, Philosophy, Music, Fashion, Film, Theater, Dance, Jewelry, Herbology, Religion, Yoga, Meditation, Culinary and Oenology studies. Courses also offered in Leather and Wood Crafting, Mask Making, Mehndi and Perfume Design. The combination of these subjects bring a broader understanding of art and an expansive network of ideas and reason.

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