Jun 13, 2014 | Italy, La Romita News
Italy is an idea, an image, a lifestyle. Italy is art and Italy is architecture…innovations and experiments. It has also been defined by conflict and by plague. Italy is a sum of its past and its present, of its conquests and its defeats…of dreams that span...
Sep 15, 2013 | Italy, La Romita News
As many of you are aware Enza Quargnali, founder of La Romita School, has been absent from La Romita this year in body, while fighting a battle with an illness that she calls the beast. But she is winning this battle and her spirit has been present every day in this...
Apr 11, 2013 | Italy, La Romita News
Webster’s defines serendipity as a “happy accident” or “pleasant surprise”. Obviously accidents can’t be predicted and surprises lose their punch if you know they’re coming, so we can’t really promise serendipity as part of the program at La...
Oct 23, 2012 | Artist Interview, Italy, La Romita News
[Editor’s Note: Kenneth O’Connell has taught at La Romita four times in the last 8 years, and this year led the workshop Sketchbooks in Italy in early September. He is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Oregon, and is also President Emeritus of...
Oct 25, 2011 | Italy, photoblog
Last week in Austin, Texas when the Hunter’s Moon lit up my backyard, I was reminded of the previous full moon, twenty-eight days before, seen from the courtyard of La Romita, an artists’ retreat and school located near Terni, Italy in the heart of Umbria. It...
Jun 16, 2011 | Italy, La Romita News
June is the time of wildflowers in Italy; the colors are often breathtaking. To paraphrase our native Francis of Assisi, the supreme beauty of nature attracts souls as well as bees. Here are a couple of photos I took the other day of a nearby field: After Barry...
