Samantha Sanders was awarded a One Month Work/Study scholarship to study in Rome during Summer 2015. Over the course of the next few weeks, find out about her time on the Program as she reflects on her time in Rome. Continue reading Reflections: Samantha Sanders – Summer 2015
I was delighted to be asked join Carole Robb and her faculty as Teaching Assistant for the Rome Art Program in May 2014. I have been closely involved with the program since leaving university (SFASU with my MFA in painting with printmaking as a minor in 2012) and it was an amazing experience; I delighted in becoming Roman for that special time, and naturally allowed myself the luxury of this culture at full speed, in all its panoply of hues. This meant that I take it Rome on as a verb, actively yomping the city snaking on foot along the Tiber, and using the subway and bus system. Continue reading Reflections: Lizzie Clark-Paterson
Janus, according to Ancient Roman religion and mythology, rules as the god of beginnings and transitions. The deity is generally depicted as having two faces, looking forward to the future and behind to the distant past. Janus is often affiliated with doors, gateways, passages, and conclusions. Continue reading Reflections: Rachel Masters – Summer 2013
I washed my feet, as soon as I got into the apartment. After a while I felt as if the dirt on my feet, was a residue, dragged on to the ground, from history. At times I felt that my feet were turning into sponges, gathering the history left behind. When I sat down to draw, the earth under my feet , beckoned me to draw their spirit on to my watercolor, brava! What was I really painting? Continue reading Reflections: Liliana Perez – Student, 2011
Chloe Vallance and Lorena Ferguson Fama finding balance before a morning drawing class
Blue is my favourite colour. Indigo.