Posted: March 2nd, 2011
March Saturday 5: Afternoon in Locronan, evening in Quimper, including a jazz concert, with Carine. Contact Carine for details!
Saturday 12 : Carnaval in Pont Aven!
Saturday 19 : Concert in Lorient with Cedric: Pierre Bastien, experimental music
Tickets: 12€ when bought in advance, otherwise 15€. Leave Pont-Aven at 17h.
Saturday 26 : Pointe du Raz, Baie d’Audierne, visit of an artist studio with Gwen.
April Sunday 3 : Mont Saint Michel with Catherine. 
please sign up ASAP!
Posted: February 11th, 2011
Why Are We Here? Pont-Aven’s History as an Artists’ Colony
Our small French village has been attracting artists since the early 1860’s. Paul Gauguin, along with his comrades Emile Bernard and Paul Sérusier, are perhaps Pont-Aven’s best known artists in residence, but there were many more. Dr. Caroline Boyle-Turner, an internationally recognized art historian, will launch our semester with a lecture on this fascinating history.
Dr. Caroline Boyle-Turner, Director Emeritus and founder of PASCA, obtained her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. She has been a Fulbright Fellow in France and a professor of art history at the American University in Paris and the Rhode Island School of Design. She founded the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in 1993 and was its director until 2008.
Dr. Boyle-Turner has published numerous books and exhibition catalogues on Gauguin and his followers in Pont-Aven.
February 15, 18h15 (6:15PM), Lecture Hall
Posted: February 4th, 2011
It’s the start of a new semester here at PASCA… first group picture with faculty, students and their host families.
Posted: January 14th, 2011
PASCA is seeking an intern for 2011/2012. click here for more information.
Posted: November 29th, 2010
Joan Snitzer is an artist interested in the connections of visual culture and the intimacy of touch seen in visual art. She is currently a faculty member and the Director of Visual Art at Barnard College/Columbia University in NYC. She was the first director of the historic A.I.R Gallery, in SoHo. In 1990 she created and directed the “Artists in the Marketplace”, one of the Bronx Museum’s core programs which has provided professional development opportunities and a venue for exhibition to over 800 emerging artists in its thirty-year history. From 1980 to 1986 she was an employee of Andy Warhol. She has exhibited her work across the United States and Europe and is represented in many museums and other public and private collections. She is currently represented by the A.I.R. Gallery in NYC.
Posted: November 19th, 2010
Catherine Elkar: Lost In Translation
Catherine Elkar is a Rennes-based art historian and curator who has been the director of FRAC Bretagne, the Regional Fund for Contemporary Art in Brittany, since 1990. Inspired by our semester theme “Lost In Translation”, she designed the exhibition of the same name now on display in the Centre International d’Art Contemporain (CIAC). Ms Elkar will discuss the artwork, the artists and her curatorial process for this exhibition. She will also discuss the history and cultural role of the state-funded Regional Funds for Contemporary Art in France which exist throughout France, with a special focus on the history and future of FRAC Bretagne.
November 22, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Posted: October 28th, 2010
Wendy was the first woman in the United States to receive her MFA in Furniture Design—in 1980 from Rochester Institute of Technology. Her early experiments with painting and texturing wood were as controversial as her degree, and her work continues to challenge as she defies easy definition as an artist. Her work can’t be contained in simple categories like craft, furniture, design, sculpture, video, installation—It’s all of these things and much more.
Wendy’s latest work is The Tag Project: Executive Order 9066. An ongoing project that combines video, installation, a series of small wall cabinets and the labors of hundreds of volunteers across the United States, it addresses the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans in 1942.
Wendy is a Professor of Art at San Diego State University. Her work is widely collected and can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Queen Victoria Museum in Australia, to name a few. Wendy has received three NEA grants, a Fulbright, and a Japan Friendship Grant as well as the Furniture Society’s prestigious “Award of Distinction”.
Friday October 29, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Posted: October 27th, 2010
PASCA students and faculty just got back from London, where we spent a day at the Frieze Fair.
A big THANK YOU to Deutsche Bank, the main sponsors of the fair, who also very generously donated our admission tickets.
We are lucky people – We also got to walk on, touch and play with Ai WeiWei’s sunflowers seeds in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The installation has since been closed to the public.
Please visit our Facebook page to see more images from this trip.
Posted: October 20th, 2010
is the name of the website of this semester’s Professional Development Practicum course. Well worth a visit!
Posted: October 18th, 2010
Valerie Bäuerlein is a Berlin based artist-film maker who has been an artist in residence at Les Verrières, Résidences-Ateliers in Pont-Aven for the last three months. She will discuss her current project, “La Copiste de Pont-Aven”, a short film that she is producing in collaboration with fellow Berliner and artist in residence Martin Neef. Valerie studied photography at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, where she shot her first video works. She is now a graduate student in directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (dffb) in Berlin, studying with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lisandro Alonso and Lav Diaz, among others. Her films and videos have been screened in Berlin, Leipzig, Hammamet, Tunisia, Brest and Quimper.
October 26, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Posted: October 8th, 2010
Complete course descriptions for next fall session are now online!
Posted: September 29th, 2010
Amy Lovera is a multimedia artist whose work explores the interplay between biography and fiction. In an effort to construct meaning out of our varied perceptions of reality, her narrative works translate personal histories through reenacting them as photographs, animations and drawings. Amy is also a founding member of the Clever Girls Collaborative, an animation studio which focuses on hand-made techniques and a spontaneous approach to stop-motion animation. Their current film was recently screened to accompany a live performance by the Bang on a Can All-Stars at their People’s Commissioning Fund concert in NYC. Amy has been awarded grants by LEF Foundation, the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts, the Massachusetts College Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, most notably in Luna Cornea, a photography journal published by the Centro de La Imagen and funded by the Mexican National Endowment of the Arts. Amy has taught at Massachusetts College of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design and Southern Connecticut State University. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
October 5, 18h15, Lecture Hall
Posted: September 26th, 2010
We’ve moved our Providence office! Our new address is 928 Smith Street Providence, Rhode Island 02908. We’ve kept the same phone number: 401 272 5445. Come visit Monica Botelho, PASCA’s Enrollment Coordinator in her new office.
Posted: September 23rd, 2010
Olive Ayhens is a painter whose work is heavily influenced by her environment. She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Fundacion Valpaaiso, Spain; Ucross; Blue Mountain; Djerassi; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (studio space); Yaddo; Marie Walsh Sharpe Space program; and Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pollock-Krasner Grants, and an Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant. Olive’s work has been reviewed in Art News, Art In America, The New York Times, The New York Sun, the Village Voice, the New York Observer, and Art Week, among many others. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; American University; Brown University; Stanford University; Sarah Lawrence College; California College of the Arts; and the University of Texas at Austin. MFA San Francisco Art Institute.
September 28, 2010, 18h15 (6:15PM), Lecture Hall
Posted: September 17th, 2010
Susan’s work includes sculpture, installation, furniture design, painting, drawing and occasionally video. Her current work has focused on the combining of wood with other media such as painting and digital media and on the collaborative process. Her hybrid sculptures combining studio furniture, drawings and prints have been exhibited at the Salone Internazionale de Mobile, Milan, Italy, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York and in galleries across the U.S.
Susan is the Academic Director of the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art.
Tuesday September 21, 2010 6.15pm, Lecture Hall
Posted: September 17th, 2010
“The stones of Carnac are big stones” GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The Alignments of Carnac were erected around 3,OOO BCE, over hundreds of years and requiring the commitment of many generations. Today, there are four alignments still standing, with thousands of stones aligned across about 4 kilometres. There are additional alignments submerged beneath the waters of Quiberon Bay, which was dry land 5,000 years ago. No one knows exactly what purpose the Alignments served— Complex and mysterious, it may be that they relate to astronomical calculations and the seasons.
WHEN: THIS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19 AT 12:30PM
Posted: September 10th, 2010
Why Are We Here? Pont-Aven’s History as an Artists’ Colony
Our small French village has been attracting artists since the early 1860’s. Paul Gauguin, along with his comrades Emile Bernard and Paul Serusier, are perhaps Pont-Aven’s best known artists in residence, but there were many more. Dr. Caroline Boyle-Turner, an internationally recognized art historian, will launch our semester with a lecture on this fascinating history.
Dr. Caroline Boyle-Turner, Director Emeritus of PASCA, obtained her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University. She has been a Fulbright Fellow in France and a professor of art history at the American University in Paris and the Rhode Island School of Design. She founded the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in 1993 and was its director until 2008. Dr. Boyle-Turner has published numerous books and exhibition catalogues on Gauguin and his followers in Pont-Aven.
September 14, 2010, 18h15 (6:15PM), Lecture Hall
Posted: September 10th, 2010
This coming Sunday, Dr Caroline Boyle-Turner will lead a walk to the Chapelle de Trémalo. We will meet in the parking lot across the street at 2 PM.
