Dana Prescott, BA, MA, Executive Director Emerita, is a writer, painter, and educator, who has lived and worked in Italy for most of the past 30 years. She taught painting and drawing at Temple University, Cornell University, and University of Washington in Rome, amongst other programs. She was Director of the European Honors Program of Rhode Island School of Design and served as Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome. She was Executive Director of Civitella Ranieri for 15 years, until she retired in 2022. Her work was included in the anthology Apple, Tree in 2019 and her poems have been published in the Bennington Review and The Journal for Poetic Research, amongst others. She is the editor of the anthology, Feathers from the Angel’s Wing, a collection of poems inspired by the paintings of Piero della Francesca.