DRAWING IN ITALY’S TUSCANY AND UMBRIA REGIONS 2026
June 14-21
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 14 and depart June 21
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 INCLUDE 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 stay in an apartment 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.
All fees and entrances to scheduled visits to cities’ facilities and museums.
Breakfast.
Dinners.
Wine tasting.
The participant is responsible only for:
o Round-trip airfare to Rome, train to/from Fabro Scalo station.
o Meals.
o Alcoholic beverages.
FEES AND ACCOMMODATIONS FOR ONE WEEK SESSION:
$2600 for a private apartment.
$2200 for a shared apartment.
$2100 for “Plus 1” accompanying a student in a shared apartment.
CALENDAR OF PAYMENTS:
A $500 deposit reserves your place in the course experience. The deposit is non-refundable.
The course experience will be confirmed as soon as we reach a minimum number of paid partecipants.
Payment and deposit are fully reimbursed if the “DRAWING IN ITALY’S TUSCANY AND UMBRIA REGIONS 2026” experience is canceled.
The deposit and course fee are non-refundable unless a waiting list participant fills that slot.
TO REGISTER:
1) Fill the “Registration Form”
2) Send your deposit, remaining or full payment using the TD Bank secure link https://app.autobooks.co/pay/davide-prete
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Contact us with your email address to receive more information or to register!
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