12th Grade Fieldtrip: São Paulo

By Susana Groot

The 12th-grade field trip this year will be art-focused, exploring many of São Paulo´s museums. The students will leave on the 20th of September at 8:30 am, with their destination to Museu da Casa Brasileira at 10:30.

The students will have the opportunity to experience Brazilian living conditions through their culture, architecture, and design, and how the man preserves his home (habitat). A lot of the information collected in the museum comes from research communication and incentives for social inclusion and acceptance. The vision set by the museum is to create a reference center for architecture and design. After this visit to the museum Casa Brasileira, the seniors will have a delicious lunch at the restaurant Capim Santo and then will leave to see the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, one of the most important art museums in Brazil, built in 1900, in the center of São Paulo by Ramos de Azevedo and Domiziano Rossi.

It is part of the Liceu de Artes e Oficios.  At the end of the first day of their senior trip, the 12th graders will check into the Hotel Quality Suítes Faria Lima. and have dinner at the Churrascaria Bovinus – Alameda Santos. The next day will be spent in Vila Madalena where many activities will take place. They will see and maybe partake in art graffiti at Casagaleria e Oficina de Arte, and have a tour of Vila Madalena and of Beco o Batman; this alley is full of colorful art and graffiti. There is an art and clothing fair and many unique restaurants.  The final activity of the day is the visit to the Galleria Fidalga dedicated to the 18-year-old Fidalga project. The place was Sandra Cinto and Albano Afonso´s atelier; now the studio is kept to inspire young artists.

After dinner at the Restaurant BemDito Grill, the students are taken back to the hotel for the night. On the final day, The seniors get to visit the MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, a cultural center with an art museum, created in 1947 by the journalist Assis Chateaubriand. After a walk on the Avenida Paulista, they will have lunch at the Restaurant BemDito Grill and finally come back home, arriving at 16:00 p.m. on Friday. Many of the current seniors have expressed their desire for a more exciting field trip, as it is their last one at EAC, and maybe that is something to be considered for future senior trips.