Dec 8, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Stories
Cheri Burke 2019 Dolores Levin Memorial Scholarship Cheri was awarded a Delores Levin Memorial Scholarship to attend a workshop with Mark Eanes at La Romita. As a public school art teacher (Clymer Central School) in a rural farming community and a mother of two...
Nov 25, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships
Support our Scholarships Those of you who have been to La Romita understand that the experience is much more than day-trips and delicious meals – it changes lives. Many of our scholarship winners have used the experience to make noteworthy contributions to La...
Nov 24, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships
Giving Thanks to Delores Levin Edmund Zimmerman first met Dee in person in 2003 at the San Rafael studio of artist Kay Russell at an open house for Kay’s upcoming La Romita workshop. Edmund recalls Dee as “flamboyant and enthusiastic”, and her first...
Nov 24, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships
How to Support La Romita and our Community Those of you who have been to La Romita understand just how the experience changes lives – how much more it is than just day trips and delicious meals. The Scholarships we provide are not just a way for someone to...
Nov 21, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Stories
An Introduction to La Romita’s Scholarship Committee a letter from Joanna Quargnali-Linsley I remember a gray winter day in Albuquerque, New Mexico sitting with Paola Quargnali. She was telling me about her beloved La Romita. She spoke of lush gardens,...
Nov 21, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Stories
Brandy Noody 2018 Dolores Levin Memorial Scholarship Brandy Noody was awarded a Delores Levin Memorial Scholarship in 2018 to attend Debra Bonsack’s workshop. After a great experience, Brandy took her new inspiration and knowledge back to her classroom, and also to...
Nov 6, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Works
The Rhythm of Things The cypress trees in Italy are slow metronomes keeping time with the wind—reaching for the hand of a new lover, always retreating back to proper posture. Backward steps. Repeat. Two weeks—travelers tattooed by different guns, with the...
Nov 6, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Works
New Perfume I can feel the pinch of the stiletto patent leather black shining, bouncing the light from streetlamps into shapes— each step melting. Sultry. Cigarette smoke sexy, nobody minds the plume. The tapping of heels on dark, squared sidewalks— Rome at...
Nov 6, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Stories
Elizabeth Agans – 2018 General Scholarship Winner Elizabeth Agans was the recipient of a General Scholarship in 2018. After her workshop, she sent us the following. We are moved by the story not only of how she was able to join us a second time, but how...
May 31, 2019 | La Romita News
Notes from Edmund: Ball State University 2019 La Romita has had a collaboration with the Fine Arts department of Ball State University in Indiana for decades. As part of a credit program in painting and art history, the college students visit Venice, Ravenna,...
