DRAWING IN ITALY’S UMBRIA REGION 2025
Civita di Bagnoregio
Experience Drawing in a small group,
Immersed in the Scenic Umbrian Landscape!
A week of art and Umbrian culture, with full immersion in historical cities and picturesque towns on our day-long excursions.
Professors Davide Prete and Lynn Sures lead the small group in drawing adventures to off-the-beaten-track places often overlooked by travelers.
The Experience:
We offer one-week session with diverse drawing destinations within Umbria and Tuscany.
Arrive June 15 and depart June 23
Itineraries include drawing travel visits to:
Citta della Pieve, Orvieto Cathedral and city, Montegabbione, Civita di Bagnoregio, Perugia, Scarzuola, Bomarzo.
Daily instruction in black and white: pencil, conté, charcoals, ink, and brush, and color techniques, color pencils, and watercolors.
Exhibit your drawings in Fabro for the town to enjoy.
Note: Excursions may be modified based on weather or unforeseen events.
Stay at La Villa Il Poderaccio in Fabro in the evocative countryside between Rome and Florence.
The vacation home suites—finished with traditional Italian stone, wood and plaster construction—offer private or shared bedrooms, private or shared baths, and a living room in each suite with a flat-screen TV and free WiFi.
The villa complex has a private outdoor pool, and participants can also relax in the garden, use barbecues, and enjoy the incomparable 360- degree view from the property.
One of the apartments of the complex.
The low cost of this drawing and culture travel experience includes so much!
Tuition for a week of drawing experiences with personal instruction
Pick up and drop off from Fabro Scalo train station to the Villa, "Il Poderaccio."
Luxury 8-night stay in a room suite at La Villa Il Poderaccio (see accommodations and "Plus 1" options below)
All drawing materials for the workshop
All transportation for our all-day drawing excursions to evocative hill cities and picturesque, characteristic Umbrian locales
A final exhibition of drawings at Il Poderaccio
Continental breakfast
Two dinners at Il Poderaccio included
The participant is responsible only for:
o Roundtrip airfare to Rome, train to/from Fabro Scalo station
o Entry fees to castles and museums
o Meals
o Alcoholic beverages
FEES AND ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ONE WEEK SESSION:
$2600 per person based on double occupancy (Plus 1* available or single room available with supplement)
*Your optional Plus 1 may share your accommodation and participate in organized dinners. The Plus 1 fee does not include daily transportation or participation in excursions, visits, events, or transportation to group meals. Car rentals are available. Taxi availability is limited. Ride-sharing is not available.
Calendar of payment dates
Deposit of $500 reserves your place in the workshop. The deposit is non-refundable.
Course fee is due March 15, 2025.
Course confirmation on or before March 16, 2025.
Payment and deposit are fully reimbursed if the course is canceled.
The first and second installments are non-refundable unless a waiting list participant fills that slot—because participants will purchase air tickets when the course is confirmed.
TO REGISTER GO TO www.davideprete.com/drawing_in_italy
o Fill in the fillable Registration form.
o To complete your registration, send your deposit using the TD Bank secure link https://app.autobooks.co/pay/davide-prete
You may also request the PDF Registration form by email to davide@davideprete.com and pay by check.
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Lynn Sures
Lynn has an MFA from the University of Maryland and studied at Atelier 17 in Paris. She is Professor Emerita at Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington. She is a Research Associate in Drawing at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and was recently a SARF Fellow, drawing in Kenya.
Lynn says:
In my studio practice, the reasons for working are always clear in my mind. I might relive a place or an experience—the narrative of a site, contemplating natural or architectural phenomena, awareness of a moment in the world—and then work towards an allusion to this thing, via the inexactitude of memory and the full range of physical senses. Or I might be focused on a specific scientific phenomenon because the sciences of geology, anthropology, and physics guide my lifelong curiosity in time perception, evolutionary development, and capacity for change. I internalize what I observe or uncover in research, and naturally interpret the sciences in my work.
As an artist, I am in my preferred place in a long and physical process of making. During this time, a vivid connection with the material as well as the concept, the reason for being, roots me in my work.
http://www.lynnsures.com/
Instagram @lynnsures
Davide Prete
Davide studied at the Institute of Art in Venice, Architecture at IUAV in Venice and his Master of Art and Master of Fine Arts at Fontbonne University in Saint Louis MO. He also studied new technologies at FabAcademy.
After teaching in different colleges such as Corcoran College of Art, The George Washington University, he is now assistant professor at the University of the District of Columbia where he teaches Drawing, Sculpture and Digital Imaging.
Davide says:
My recent work explores the mathematical beauty of “minimal surface” -- a surface that locally minimizes its area. I’m especially interested in Scherk surface examples that arise in the study of harmonic diffeomorphisms of hyperbolic space. Using software and virtual reality I am able to visualize variations of forms that achieve minimal surface subject to a constraint. This process can involve bending, scaling and twisting the forms. I’m able to transform these visualizations into physical objects by combining new manufacturing technologies like 3D printing and laser scanning with traditional metal casting. My inspiration is to express figurative images through a mathematical language, and discover what I call a new form of shamanism.
http://www.davideprete.com