Beginning in Fall 2025 SRISA is opening a new campus in Naples, Italy, dedicated to Visual Art, Performance Art, Dance, Creative Writing and Liberal Arts.

The program is open to undergraduate dance, art, creative writing and liberal arts majors who desire to explore the expressive possibilities of the body as a medium as it connects to societal changes, notions of gender, and decolonization. Performance Art is the cornerstone of the program, with all its theoretical and practical extensions on art, movement, and literature.

Naples, located on the western coast of the Italian Peninsula, looks out into the Mediterranean Sea— a body of water that touches the shores of three continents, where countless people, languages, and histories merge. Naples is famous for its music, its splendid gulf, and, of course, its pizza.

But beyond the stereotypes, there is much more: the city boasts important art collections, including the famous National Archaeological Museum, six royal palaces and castles, ancient universities, international study centers, festivals, art galleries, and many spaces focused on production and experimentation of contemporary art, dance, music, and cinema.

Students have the exciting opportunity to co-design their curriculum based on a dynamic combination of studio, lecture, and seminar courses held both on campus and in collaboration with local cultural institutions, museums, theaters, and independent art centers where internships are possible.

Students will take 5 courses for 3 credits each. Students can create their curriculum choosing amongst a selection of lecture, studio art and dance courses. Below is a selection of the courses available.

• Performance Art
• Art in the Public Sphere: Mapping the City
• Contemporary Dance Technique & Theory: The Danced Gesture
• Contemporary Dance: Improvisation Practices
• Advanced Studio Practice
• Post-Colonial Studies: Decolonizing the Mediterranean
• History of Contemporary Art: Art & the Human Body
• Italian Language

All the Studio and Dance courses will include a final showing, which might include a public performance or display of visual art pieces open to the local art scene. All courses with the exception of Italian are taught in English

For more information on the program or to request a course syllabi email naples@srisa.org