As a professional artist and public art maker, I believe that my experience at Civitella, especially with the trips to churches and public buildings to see frescoes first- hand, helped me to understand how magnificent  public work can be. I have also gained insight...
I felt blessed to spend a month in the idyllic castle where I drafted a chapter of my yet to be untitled nonfiction book and wrote poems for my fourth collection of poems. To be in Civitella was especially magical after over a year of being hemmed in by the pandemic....
I have found Civitella to be an ideal place not only for artistic work, but for bringing together artists of different backgrounds to form a tight-knit community. We cared for each other, helped each other, and have created bridges between cultures that did not...
