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2008 SeasonArt in Anversa & BEYONDour mountain home, the city, or the shore…
Italian Art & Culinary Weekendsa taste of Italy in the USA — details
Saturday Multi-Media in NYCour hands-on salon, November through March— detailsWorkshops in AnversaPlease contact us for class details and specific dates that each Workshop will be offered during the coming season. See details of our new workshops below.
Along with our scheduled sessions, AMW also creates customized, week-long workshops for groups of five or more. Call us to discuss your preferred dates and media (encaustic, fresco and large mural painting are also offered), and we’ll provide you with professional instructors, studio space and supplies along with food and lodging in the beautiful town of Anversa. • • • Tuition & Features
The rate for each one-week session
not included:
View and print the AMW Registration Form (in Adobe Reader format). • • • 2008 HighlightsRounding out our expanded 2008 schedule, AMW is excited to highlight these workshops for artists seeking to extend their creativity in new directions: Drawing and Painting: the Essence of Shape and Color is designed to open your eyes to the colors and light of the Abruzzo region.
Then, working in the studio and open air, you'll use your new materials to experiment with layering, optical color mixing and other mixed-media techniques, giving you new and innovative ways of approaching your work. • Collage: An Ancient Technique Revisited
Our week will explore some of these techniques using drawings, paintings, fabrics, papers, as we practice this lively method of creative discovery. • Abstraction: A Dialogue with Nature
Mornings will be spent working outdoors from observation to gather source material to be used later in the studio. Indoors, we will work from natural objects and imagination. Although the focus of this course is on painting, source material can be collected through drawings, watercolor, and photographs. Students will be encouraged to develop their own abstract language to ultimately express their connection to nature and place. • Pastel-Making Workshop in the Mountains is a hands-on workshop presenting the chemistry of pastel making using powdered pigments and natural binders.
This workshop offers not only a unique introduction to historic methods of color creation, but provides an excellent grounding in the use of color to achieve expressive and impressionistic effects. • Multi-Media Memoir: Art, Writing & Memory Have you ever dreamed of escaping the rush of life to spend time recalling and recording a piece of your personal history? As time passes, our defining memories—relationships and events that shaped us—are often neglected or forgotten. Yet understanding who we’ve become depends on knowing where we’ve come from.
Our week-long journey will guide you in creating an individual form of expression—combining words, paint, collage, even digital design—to help you discover and interpret the details that will bring your story to life. • Going Digital is a practical course in digital photography that covers all the bases from shooting better images and improving them in the computer to using images in e-mail and slideshows to archiving them on CD and DVD. All you'll need is a digital camera, a laptop and a desire to deepen your understanding and skills in this exciting new medium. • • • From Palate to Palette: AMW's Art & Culinary Workshops
Working together with Patrizia Q., you'll learn to create sumptuous regional dishes—ranging from the top to the toe of Italy—while Patricia A. will lead you in an exploration of the relationships of food and fine art, using innovative drawing, painting and design techniques. Patrizia Quartucci was born in Naples, Italy, and has lived in the mountain village of Anversa degli Abruzzi for the past 15 years. She attended L'Instituto Linguistico and La Scuola Cucina Napoli where she specialized in Italian Regional cooking. She has worked at the US Naval Base, Club Med and The Abruzzi Mountain Workshop where she has brought her warmth and cooking expertise to a generation of artistic adventurers. So plan now to join us in welcoming her to America. Please call AMW at 212-243-4702 (USA) or contact us for details on each of Patrizia's workshops, including price and registration information. • • • AMW is also excited to announce its sixth year “in viaggio.” We’ll be teaching one-week Workshops in the verdant mountains of Puerto Rico and on the Italian island of Ischia. Sign up now for a unique experience in travel and creative arts. • • • FAQ
How much art experience is needed? Workshops are designed to enhance the senses and skills of students at any level, from beginner to advanced. Everyone who loves art is encouraged to attend. How many attend each session? Class size is limited to allow maximum interaction between artist and instructor. Workshops average six participants—the limit at each week-long session is ten. Students arrive in Anversa on Saturday then spend six full days in the village. Classes begin each morning at nine and continue until one-thirty. After lunch, students may consult with instructors as they continue work on projects either in the studio or at locations in the village or the surrounding countryside. A final critique and farewell dinner take place Friday evening. How about materials and supplies? All materials are provided. The Workshop offers a huge selection of supplies and media including tempera, acrylic, oil, charcoal, watercolor, fresco and encaustic plus materials for clay and wood sculpture and assemblage—allowing students to stretch their imaginations to the fullest.
What accommodations and meals are available? As part of our immersion into village life, lodging is arranged in comfortable, unpretentious apartments that reflect the character of Anversa. Single and double occupancy units are available. Lunches, served daily at the studio, and Friday supper are prepared by our own chef, and feature the fresh, traditional dishes of the Abruzzo region. For meals not included in the Workshop, students may shop at local markets or choose from many wonderful area restaurants—including three in Anversa and others a short drive away.
Only 75 miles (120km) from Rome's Fiumicino Airport (map), Anversa is easily reached by direct bus from Rome or by train to nearby Sulmona. The Workshop also offers a driver who can be hired to drive you from the airport directly to Anversa. In addition, numerous car rental agencies arrange weekly rentals that allow you to conveniently explore the Abruzzo region during your stay. Can I bring a friend or spouse? Yes, Workshop participants can attend with a non-participating companion. Rooms and meals are easily arranged, and the guest is free to relax, explore and enjoy the natural beauty of the area. 
Is Anversa near other touring sites? Anversa lies in the center of a region rich with natural and cultural sites. An easy day trip from the splendors of Rome, it's also an hour from the pristine Adriatic coast and 90 miles (144km) north of Naples. In addition, the stunning scenery and village life of the Abruzzi region offer endless adventures into the heart of traditional Italy.
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Using a wide range of drawing and painting materials, as well as powdered pigments and organic materials collected from nature, you will create unusual palettes and colors unavailable commercially.
Collage — heterogeneous assembly, composed of parts of different kinds. This definition brings to mind a visual assembly of the oldest sort. Surfaces of early cave paintings; woven tapestries; the walls of modern-day Rome where layers of posters have been torn and faded into glorious patterns of text and imagery. Many artists, including Hannah Hoch and Man Ray were influenced by these forms. Tearing, cutting, layering of paper, photographic imagery, found objects... They used this building process to create a new and stunning art form.
Are you ready to move beyond representation? This course engages the student with the basic fundamentals of abstraction: formal contrasts, color, space, materials and technique.
Over the course of a week, you'll fabricate your own set of custom pastels and then, using your new palette, wander the hillsides while creating landscapes and fantasyscapes inspired by the idyllic surroundings.
In this workshop, you'll use the pure, uncluttered world of Anversa to step back, to collect fragile memories and to give form, in visual arts and words, to a key story from your life. Each day, guided by artists and writing instructors, you’ll turn your raw materials—old photos and letters, emotions and events—into a structured archive that will begin to tell your story in your own personal way.
This
year, AMW is again featuring Patrizia Quartucci's Italian cooking workshops, which she'll be teaching alongside Patricia Antonucci, offering AMW students four days full of creative cooking, color, painting, writing, design and, of course, fine cuisine.
Over the weekend, we'll engage all your senses as you create your own journal and cookbook creatively documenting your brand new culinary and artistic adventures!
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