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Students and staff live in private apartments in the village, all a few minutes' walk from the school buildings. The School provides clean sheets and towels. Most rooms are double-occupancy. The School does not provide accommodations for spouses or guests.
Classrooms and studios are in the great stone palazzo at the entrance to town and in several auxiliary buildings nearby. Students and faculty have 24-hour access to their private and semi-private studios. Throughout the ancient town and out in the landscape are wonderful motifs and views to paint.
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The program fee includes three delicious Umbrian meals each day (excluding trip days). Students and faculty eat together in the School's dining room, enabling students to have close contact with their art mentors. Meals are simple and wholesome, with fresh produce from nearby farms, and prepared with care by our local cooks. A typical lunch at the ISA includes pasta, a meat dish, two vegetables, salad, fresh bread, wine, mineral water, fruit and coffee. Dinner is light and satisfying, with a hot main course and plenty of vegetables. We serve a substantial continental-style breakfast to prepare us for an energetic morning in the studio.
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The ongoing studio work from intense observation and analysis is interspersed with day-trips to study Italy's millennia-old heritage of art, from ancient to contemporary, engaging ISA artists in a dialogue with the masterworks of the past and present. We travel by chartered bus to Rome, Florence, Siena, Assisi, Perugia, Bologna, Sansepolcro and Tarquinia. Faculty and students also organize informal visits to other important towns like Orvieto and Arezzo, or return to places the group has visited. A local car rental service and public transportation enable people to travel independently.
Before each trip, a resident teacher or visiting art historian lectures and provides background to enrich and enliven the trips. Then, at each destination, students and faculty are free to go independently or in groups to visit museums and churches, or anything they wish to see. The ISA Student Sourcebook contains a guide for our trips and other travel information.
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Applicants should submit: 12 slides of recent work, including at least four of drawings; two letters of recommendation, preferably from former teachers; the completed application form; and the application fee of $35 US or 50.000 Italian lire.
The basic session fee of 6 million Italian lire (about $3,800 US in 1996) includes tuition, studio space, room, three meals a day, group trips, and ground transportation from and to Rome on the first and last days of each session. The additional charge for a single room is 500,000 lire. Tuition is due one month before the session begins. Upon acceptance to the School, applicants are asked to pay a confirmation deposit of $300 US or 500,000 lire to reserve a place in the program. This is credited toward tuition and is not refundable. Former students in good standing are automatically accepted upon receipt of the confirmation deposit.
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Nicolas Carone Director of the School of Art
Craigie Aitchison -
Lennart Anderson -
William Bailey -
James Beck -
Mary Bergstein -
Phong Bui -
Roberto Caracciolo -
Nino Caruso -
Bruno Ceccobelli -
Natalie Charkow -
Nino Cordio -
Enzo DiMartino -
Piero Dorazio -
Corda Eby -
Alan Feltus -
Andrew Forge -
Bruce Gagnier -
Serge Gavronsky -
Sidney Geist -
Piero Guccione -
Dan Gustin -
Paul Harbutt -
Joseph Hirsch -
John Hoyland -
Angelo Ippolito -
Don Kimes -
Judy Koon -
Irving Kriesberg -
Elizabeth Lyons -
Graziano Marini -
Knox Martin -
Norberto Massi -
Deborah Masters -
Matta -
James McGarrell -
Ruth Miller -
Piero Morselli -
Beverly Pepper -
Marsha Pels -
Irving Petlin -
Barbara Rose -
Paul Russotto -
Ruggero Savinio -
Ophrah Shemesh -
David Loeffler Smith -
Larry Steele -
Alessio Tasca -
Wayne Thiebaud -
Megan Williamson -
Jack Zajac
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Design,
which by another name is drawing, and consists of it, is the fount and body of painting, sculpture and architecture and of every other kind of art, and the root of all sciences.
Let whoever may have attained so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.Michelangelo
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