RICE GLOBAL PARIS: SUMMER PROGRAMS 2025

Belonging and Exile:

Black Performance and Paris

(1900 - Today)

Paris Session 2 | June 3-23, 2025

ARTS 238 Belonging and Exile: Black Performance and Paris (1900 - Today)

Through walks, site visits, readings, screenings, and discussions, we will reflect on the radicality of Black Performance in Paris and the importance of the time, space and place of production in the creation of new forms.

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Program Details:

  • Program Dates: June 3-23, 2025

  • Program Location: Rice Global Paris Center | Paris, France

  • Who Can Apply? Any Rice Undergraduate interested in Contemporary Art, Performance studies, and place-based learning in Paris. Note for graduating seniors! You are welcome to apply to this course; however, Rice summer aid (i.e. Rice financial aid) is not available to seniors who have obtained enough credits to graduate by the end of the spring semester. Additionally, you will have to postpone your graduation date to the summer in order to participate. You are, however, still eligible to apply for both RICE GLOBAL tuition and travel awards included in the course application.

  • Tuition Cost: $1,800 per credit hour (this course is 3 credit hours).

  • What's Covered: The program will provide housing for all three weeks, metro card for all three weeks, course-set excursions/tickets, three group meals, and travel insurance.

  • Financial Aid: If you already receive financial aid, you are eligible to receive financial aid for up to 9 credit hours a summer for two summer, at 50% of the tuition rate, i.e. if a Paris course is three credit hours and $5,400 total tuition, eligible students would pay $2,700. Rice summer aid (i.e. Rice financial aid) is not available to seniors who have obtained enough credits to graduate by the end of the spring semester.

    After submitting your application, our office is in direct contact with the financial aid office who will let us know if you are financial aid eligible for the summer. If you are accepted, you will immediately know how much financial aid you have available in your acceptance letter.

    To find out if you are eligible before acceptance to a course, contact: fina@rice.edu. To learn more about summer financial aid requirements, please visit: https://financialaid.rice.edu/summer-students.

  • Additional Assistance from Rice Global: Students can also apply to receive additional assistance (for both tuition and travel) from Rice Global. Application for assistance is included in the course application.

Course Details:

  • Credit Hours: 3 credit hours

  • Course Instructors: Devin T. Mays and Eli Greene

  • Course Description: Through walks, site visits, readings, screenings, and discussions, we will reflect on the radicality of Black Performance in Paris and the importance of the time, space and place of production in the creation of new forms.

  • Who is this class for? Any Rice Undergraduate (no prerequisites required) interested in Contemporary Art, Performance studies, and place-based learning in Paris.

  • Course Zoom Information Session: Take a look at the Information Session recording to learn more.

  • Syllabus: Take a look at the draft syllabus - subject to change.

  • Does this course fulfill a distribution and/or Analyzing diversity requirement? No

For questions, please visit our student program page or email pariscenter@rice.edu. The application deadline is January 31, 2025.

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Devin T. Mays

Devin T. Mays (b. Detroit, MI) works with sculpture, installation, performance, and pictures to locate the seen, unseen and understood. His literal use of the temperamental and temporary is an attempt to work with the materiality of everything and nothingness. The materials being used in his practice do not always present themselves as anything more than what they appear to be. There is not always a physical transformation at the hands of his facilitation. He often refers to his interdisciplinary practice as a practice-in-practice, a place for things to become Things. He has exhibited and performed at Martin Janda, Vienna; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Neubauer Collegium, Chicago; gta exhibitions, Zürich; Sweetwater, Berlin; F, Houston; SculptureCenter, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago among others.

 

Mays holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University and a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Chicago.


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Eli Greene

Eli Greene (b. New York, NY) is a Chicago and Houston based multimedia artist. Her works are often filtered through photography, saturated with the medium and everything it sticks to -- history, memory and loss. Through image, object, and performance, Greene's practice traces the act of one thing becoming another. Her recent work has been exhibited and performed at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, Maximillian William, London, F, Houston, The Smart Museum of Art, Gallery 400, The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and Regards, Chicago.

 

Greene holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from The University of Chicago.