Study Abroad

Hartford Art School students often spend a semester studying abroad, representing our school at some of the world’s best institutions of art and design, including:

AUSTRALIA

The University of Tasmania

ENGLAND

Central Saint Martins School of Art
Chelsea School of Art
Richmond College
American International University
Slade School of Fine Art

ITALY

University of Georgia at Cortona
SACI

THE NETHERLANDS

Hoegeschool Voor De Kunsten

NEW ZEALAND

Canterbury University

SCOTLAND

Glasgow School of Art

FRANCE

Speos

IRELAND

Burren College of Art

Embedded Study Abroad

Sicily Painting & Photography

Painting students explore the processes and develop the techniques of gathering on location reference sketches, painting and photographic documentation and then utilize these techniques during spring break travel to Sicily. Students complete a series of studio works based on the travel period. For Photo students, this course provides an overview of travel photography. Through a series of local assignments, students develop ideas and strategies for overseas assignments. A joint exhibition with painting students is mounted the following fall.

Sustainable Studio

Winter Term in Ghana, West Africa
“Sustainable Studio” covers traditional art forms, such as printed fabric design, wood carving, basket weaving, and ceramics, as well as contemporary artists’ work focusing on the environment. In the big picture, the class gives students a better sense of the planet as a whole, and of humanity in the developing world. In regard to their development as artists and designers, HAS students are given an interdisciplinary studio class, where they make art and learn about art and culture in a non-Western environment that may be quite new to them.