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...
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 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, 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...
