Thank you to our community!
Last month we were able to raise past our goal of $10,000, in order to fund scholarships for our 2025 season. We couldn’t have done it without an incredible outpouring of support from our community. Thanks to them, we expect to welcome at least 5 individuals to attend La Romita workshops next year on Scholarship.
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.
From our Blog:
2024 Scholarship Recipient: Yvonne Manipon
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 variety of...
In Memory: Benno Philippson
We were saddened to learn of the recent passing of Benno Philippson, one of La Romita's great friends. Over a period of more than fifteen years, Benno brought groups of his followers to La Romita. His skill as an architect informed his painting and teaching, with a...