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| Co-Directors Sheilah Rechtschaffer and Livia Monaco founded Accademia Caerite, Inc. in 1992. This summer workshop program is held in Ceri, Italy, a tiny hill top town overlooking spectacular landscape just an hour northwest of Rome. In this workshop, students live in a 17th century palazzo and work in a subterranean studio on 12th century walls. |
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| The fresco painting sessions are conducted by Jack Portland from the faculty of the Pacific Northwest Museum School of Art in Portland, Oregon. Now in its eighth year, there are over forty fresco murals in a wide variety of images. Students from Parsons and many other art schools have attended. Professors of art and professional artists from the United States, Canada, England, Belgium, Spain, Japan, Taiwan and Italy have gathered together in an intensive learning experience in fresco painting. |  View of Accademia Caerite, Inc. |
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Participants take home portable fresco panels of their images. Field trips to important sites, such as the nearby Etruscan tombs in Tarquinia; the Sistine Chapel, Museo Archeologico Romano (Palazzo Massimo), Museo de Villa Borghese and the "Golden House" (Dumus Aurea) in Rome. Parsons faculty member, Lesley Doyel is a board member of this not-for-profit program and Parsons faculty member, Robert Bunkin is a visiting lecturer. |
| Another dimension has been added to our program in Ceri.
A course in Traditional Decorative Painting will introduce the use of decorative
motifs as students learn fresco techniques on panels. The class is taught by Nicola Vigini. Now in it's third year, the instructor has added this important aspect to the curriculum. |
 Panels of decorative fresco painting |
| For further information please contact: Sheilah Rechtschaffer at (914) 271-3380 or on E-mail at ACAERITE@aol.com. Please visit our website at www.artitaly.org. | |
