Category Archives: Terra Foundation Giverny

Parlé Francais?

Hello Everybody! This is Jessie Brugger writing, graduate from the New York Academy of Art on a residency in France. Right now, I’m in the city of dancing girls, big cathedrals and their stained glass windows, haute couture thanks to the “Sun King” Louis 14th, incredible bread and cheese, protesters, the late Victor Hugo (one of my favorite writers), the famous Moulin… Read More

Hangin’ in the Garden (from Moses to Monet)

by Emily Adams (MFA 2011)The week of August 9th, I will begin a residency graciously offered to several Academy students by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Our studios will be located not far from the famed Giverny gardens, which I assume most of us know best as they were seen through the cataractous eyes of the aging Monet. We’ll see… Read More

Madrid to Barcelona to Paris to Giverny

This is Jason Sho Green, a second-year painting major at the Academy. I’m currently writing on the train from Madrid to Barcelona, on my way to Paris in a few days to meet up with the rest of the Terra Foundation/Giverny Residency group. JFK [airport] gives you plenty of time on the runway to work on cabin interior drawings… The… Read More