I came to Civitella trying to finish a collection of essays (tentatively titled The Magic Kingdom of the Feral Victorians) that I’ve been working on for about a year and a half, and feeling as if I’d really lost clarity about how (and if) the project was...
The life of an artist is often based on concentrated isolation. It has been a dream of mine for many years to live in an environment where I can combine concentrated work with an environment of stimulating contact with other artists, while living in the beautiful...