Oct 16, 2024 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Stories
Leslie Voiers came to our Scholarship Program with an extensive art background, in the textile arts. She has contributed much to the world of hand weaving, as an artist, a teacher, and curator. It would have seemed natural for her to gravitate to this year’s...
Sep 10, 2024 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Stories
JoRene Byers was awarded a 2024 scholarship on the strength of her application and the 3 excellent poems. Of her submission, the Scholarship committee wrote: “her love of the natural world is woven with her writing practice and poetry. Her education, publishing...
Jul 15, 2024 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Stories
Yvonne Manipon applied for to our Scholarship Program in the hopes that she would be able to attend Fran Valesco’s printmaking and watermedia workshop. As a full time art teacher at a Catholic High School in Hawaii, Yvonne seeks to expose her students to a...
May 20, 2024 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Works
We are excited to announce this year’s winners of the Enza and Paola Quargnali Memorial Scholarship! JoRene Beyers – Poetry Workshop: Melissa Young and Emily Ransdell – The Art of Discovery Comments from the Committee: “[…] her love...
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...
