The 2025 Scholarship Program opens January 15th!
The Enza and Paola Quargnali Memorial Scholarship is intended to help visual artists and writers develop their process and explore their art through exposure to authentic Italian culture as provided by our workshops.
For 2025, there will be five $2500 scholarships awarded, thanks to the generous support of our Community. The scholarship application deadline is Feb 28 and scholarship recipients will be announced April 15th.
LA ROMITA’S ART WORKSHOPS IN ITALY
Welcome and Benvenuti! For 50 years, La Romita School of Art has been bringing people to the Umbrian region of Central Italy to participate in its painting, culinary, and art workshops in Italy.
Our art workshops are intimate, unique, and informed by our decades-long experience in the region and in art workshop organization. Whether you are painting or sketching, taking a photograph of a beautiful mountain lake or remote hill-town, drinking espresso in a bar or watching an elderly Italian signora water the geraniums in her window garden, you will leave a La Romita workshop feeling as though you’ve seen the heart and soul of La Bella Italia.
If you are in search of a working art vacation, if you are passionate about Italy, if you want a painting holiday with a difference, then La Romita is waiting for you.
Help support our Scholarship Program
You can help support our scholarship program with a donation today!
I’ve been on many tours, and I’ve actually managed tours myself, and I’ve never seen anything this well-organized. They have it down to a fine science; their pacing as well as their programming, their humor. The food and the accommodations are fabulous. You feel very safe here, and very welcome. The directors come in every night and have dinner with us, and share, and talk about what our day was like, which I think is fabulous. Our driver tried to anticipate what we wanted. When he heard “oohs and aahs,” he stopped the bus. You just can’t find that every day. And so, we hate to leave. We love this place.[…]it’s been bliss.
La Romita offers an ongoing Residency Program.
The residency provides artists and writers a perfect retreat-like experience with uninterrupted time to pursue their own independent projects; the La Romita experience tailored for the individual.
From our Blog:
2024 Retrospective
La Romita’s official name in Italy is “Convento delle Arti”, convent of the arts – a reference to the structure’s original purpose as home, sanctuary, and workplace for monks of the Cappuchin order. The placement of the stones, dug from the rocky earth of central...
In Memory: Richard Osler
This week we learned that our dear friend Richard Osler has passed. The outpouring of posts to honor him on various social media platforms has been deeply moving - such an incredible figure in so many ways. He came to La Romita on a quick visit this summer and we...