OPEN ART RETREAT: June 14-24, 2025
While most of our workshops are instructor-led, we’re offering a special open retreat for artists eager to follow their own path.
Come and spend 10 days La Romita devoted to your process, shared with an intimate group of other artists. Only 10 spaces are available.
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 Scholarship Recipient: Leslie Voiers
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 tapestry...
2024 Scholarship Recipient: JoRene Byers
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 and...