Visiting both Paris and Venice, this trip of a lifetime places the cities and their rich artistic legacies in a comparative frame working with the theme Artists Feeling the City—Urban Emotion, Materiality, and Experience. First approached conceptually in the classroom and then more spatially on site within a shifting modern and contemporary art context. More specifically, our goal is to approach Paris and Venice with the following questions: •    What do we mean by “urban emotions” and what is the role of the artist in identifying, representing, and circulating their multifaceted meanings through materials and experiential experimentation? •    Can the intersection of emotions, cities, and visual art and culture open new avenues of research and art production—and if so, what insights can be gained from their interplay? •    What is the role of materials, mediated technology, and experiential and mixed media modalities in the representation of urban emotions, and how can the unruly images and visual culture of our cities be tamed— critically and historically? An important component of visiting both Paris and Venice is to place the cities and their rich artistic legacies in a comparative frame, exploring how artists of both cities have historically acted as catalysts of urban emotions while urban architectural space has been shaped by such emotion-informed “re-presentations”.