Place, Culture, Presence: Student Works from Mallorca, Spain

Select works from eight students who traveled to Mallorca, Spain, in Winter 2025.

This exhibition presents work created during a two week intensive course in which students made art on location across the island. Traveling through cities, villages, coastlines, and countryside, participants explored how place, culture, and history shape creative experience and expression.

Daily excursions to museums, markets, and historic landmarks provided cultural and historical context, while Mallorca’s varied terrain, its shifting light, color, and atmosphere, became an ever changing studio.

Working on location in this context moves beyond traditional plein air practice. Rather than merely recording appearances, students engaged in an act of radical attention, a sustained awareness of time, space, and presence. Through observation, reflection, and creative response, they became part of their surroundings, translating the rhythm and essence of the island into visual form.