Mallorca, Spain

Winter Session 2025-26

Course: Making Art on Location: The Landscapes, Histories and Cultures of Mallorca
Dates: December 28, 2025—January 14, 2026 (Tentative until airfare is finalized)
Credits: 3 in Studio Arts, Liberal Arts, or Art History
Instructor: Ron DiRito
Information: [email protected]

Do you like to make art on location, travel and explore new lands? This adventure gives the artist exciting opportunities to work on location and offers unique environments in which to photograph, draw, sketch, document, collage, video or journal in the rich, multifaceted landscapes and geographies of Mallorca, Spain.

Students enjoy a full range of cultural activities, which include field trips to historic landmarks, castles and palaces, archaeological sites and ruins, museums and galleries, markets and festivals. Daily excursions offer students a series of direct exchanges and encounters with the local people, places, and customs of Mallorca. Students work in cites, small towns and villages, along the shore, and in the countryside. Individual and personal interpretations, expressions and viewpoints will detail and map the unique experience of each artist.

Mallorca is a small island and can be easily traversed. It is a cartographer’s dream of rugged mountains and vertiginous cliffs, hidden coastal bays and inlets, vast fertile plains, dense forests, winding roads and narrow byways. The island offers a constellation of contrasts: epic vistas, serene white sand beaches, historical ramparts and ruins, and hamlets of quiet charm and distinction.

The rural and urban topography of Mallorca is the vocabulary of evolution, of successive generations that have given shape and structure to the island. They are the historical sculptors, contemporary stewards and guardians of influence that continue to shape this culturally rich, diverse, kind and beautiful land.

The majority of the time spent on the island will be devoted to working on location. Each day, students will have time and access to the school to back-up any electronic work, write, work, and reflect on the day’s events and experiences.

Students stay at the Santuari de Monti-Sion, a former 14th-century monastery at the top of a mountain in the municipality of Porreres, east of Palma.

Price $4,500. Includes: 3 College Credits, Round-trip airfare from Boston to Mallorca, all ground transportation, housing (double occupancy), breakfast daily and four group dinners. Scholarships are available.

Steps to Apply

• Complete and submit application along with a non-refundable application fee of $100 (due October 1, 2025)
• Notification of acceptance will be sent before October 15, 2025

After Acceptance

• Passport form and payment of $2,350 via the PayPal link below by October 15, 2025. You MUST submit proof of a current passport with your deposit!
• Final Payment of $2,050 due by November 12, 2025

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Montserrat College of Art
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