Painting Assistant Professor Yulia Gasio and School of Art Advanced Painting Class in Dublin, Ireland

For the second consecutive summer, Assistant Professor Yulia Gasio led a trip to Ireland for College of the Arts’ course in Advanced Life Painting. Nearly 20 students based themselves at Trinity College Dublin and over two weeks, they visited National College of Art & Design and the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in the Irish capital, as well as Belfast School of Art.

In addition to producing about two paintings per day, students visited galleries, took a hike through a rainy forest and spent three days creating art outdoors during the Dublin Plein Air Painting Festival, said Celina Villanueva, a fourth-year drawing and painting student.

“You really do get your practice in,” she said. “There’s no way in heck you’re not going to get something out of it when you’re doing so much work in a short time.”