NWACC Artists in Italy 2020
Northwest Arkansas Community College presents
NWACC Artists in ITALY
An Artists Retreat in Tuscany for 2020
"Experience Italy"
with...
Miles Fish, NWACC Lead Faculty in Italy
Sean Fitzgibbon, NWACC Artists in Italy Instructor
Phone Lauren at the NWACC Foundation for signup info:
479-619-4321
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NWACC Artists in Italy VIDEO
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NWACC Artists in ITALY
An Artists Retreat in Tuscany
June 5-June 14, 2020
7 nights in Siena, Italy
2 nights in Florence, Italy
Presented by
The NWACC Foundation and NWACC's Department of Art
Members of the Northwest Arkansas Community
are invited to join us in Tuscany Summer 2020
Beginners and Advanced students are welcome
Keeping the "Community" in our Community College
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ACCOMMODATIONS
7 nights Hotel Palazzo Ravizza, Siena, Italy
Standard Room, Siena City View, Double Occupancy
The Ravizza is constantly listed as Siena's TOP THREE Hotels
CLICK here for Palazzo Ravizza website
2 nights Hotel Pierre, Florence, Italy
Standard room, Double Occupancy
CLICK here for Hotel Pierre website
Hotel Room upgrades available
MEALS
Two meals daily
Breakfasts daily at the hotels
Lunch with wine/water/tips daily at local restaurants
Tentative list of
OFF-SITE ART EXCURSIONS
Painting/Drawing in Pienza
Painting/Drawing at Brolio Vineyars
Painting/Drawing at Quattro Torra (4 Towers Castle)
Half-day at the Uffizi Museum Florence
Sunset Painting/Drawing Piazzale Michelangelo in Florence
M.Fish GUIDED HISTORIC TOURS
Siena and Florence
PRIVATE GROUND TRANSPORTATION
Florence Airport to Siena's Hotel Palazzo Ravizza*
(for artists arriving by 1:00PM Saturday, June 5)
Artists Excursions to Pienza, Brolio Vineyards, and/or Quattro Torra castle
Siena's Palazzo Ravizza Hotel to Florence's Hotel Pierre
Non-painters are welcome to accompany painters
(full price applies)
JUNE 5-June 14, 2020
The cost of NWACC's artist holiday is
$2,990.00
per person double occupancy
airfare is not included
$200 of the $2,990 cost goes to NWACC's Study Abroad Scholarships
So the actual Trip Cost is $2,790.00
The donation is made in your name
Single supplements are possible
(air transportation is not included)
The maximum number of artists (and guests) for this retreat is 20
The minimum number of artists (and guest) is 16
Want to arrive early or stay late? We can help with that.
Want to visit Venice before you leave Italy? We can help with that.
You may contact the NWACC Foundation Office
and request to be placed on an
"Artists in Italy interest list"
Phone Lauren at the NWACC Foundation for signup info:
479-619-4321
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Click on the BLUE PAGE below for
Sign-Up Information
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Sign-Up Information
Excursion #4: Sunset Painting/Drawing Piazzale Michelangelo in Flornence
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Excursion #1: Painting/Drawing in Pienza
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Excursion #3: Painting/Drawing at Quattro Torra (4 Towers Castle)
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SEAN FITZGIBBON
Artist Sean Fitzgibbon, NWACC Art Instructor, explores unusual, real places and events through his work. He’s been teaching college for 16 years, and has an MFA in art and a passion for making art, visual storytelling and teaching.
He has exhibited work throughout the US. He has illustrated books and is currently illustrating and writing a documentary-style graphic nonfiction that depicts the mythologies surrounding the Crescent Hotel’s years as the Baker Hospital, a Depression Era experimental cancer hospital in Eueka Springs, Arkansas. Visit seanfitzgibbon.com.
"Students will learn a great deal and have so much fun mixing Tuscan landscape watercolors with type and architectural drawings." Sean
Below: some mixed media work from one of Sean's Italian sketchbooks
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Miles Fish (MilesFish.com)
Travel and explore Tuscany with NWACC's Miles Fish. For 19 years Prof. Fish has spent summers teaching, studying, researching while home-based in Siena.
Miles has taught and conducted music ensembles at Northwest Arkansas Community College for more than twenty years. He is a National Endowment for Humanities “American’s Music Scholar”, Conrad Kruaft Research Grant Award recipient, two time NWACC faculty development grant, Innovative Grant winner, and NWACC Sabbatical recipient.
He is the founder of the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Benton County and for 10 years served as conductor/artistic director. Later he was a founder of The Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra and served one season as conductor.
In addition to teaching and traveling he has, for the past decade, been instrumental in creating innovative international programs for NWACC students and members of the NWA community.
Short History of Miles in Siena: Since the year 2000 Miles has spent summers traveling, studying, and researching in Europe. For the last 19 summers he has been a resident of Siena, Italy. Five summers he was associated with an SSMA, (Sessione Senese Per La Musica E L’Arte) an American music summer school in Siena. Four summers he attended master classes in conducting at Siena’s Accademia Chigiana music conservatory (http://eng.chigiana.it ). Other summers Siena was home base while traveling to Venice, Florence, Turin, Dresden, Vienna, Salzburg, and Bonn researching and writing about Italian Composer Antonio Vivaldi, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Miles has hosted more than a dozen group tours to Tuscany and, since 2016 has planned and accompanied students to NWACC’s Study Abroad campus in Siena. He has more than 50 travel related Youtubes that have received more than 80,000 views (Miles Dayton Fish at Youtube).
Miles' travel enterprises, trips, tours, and dinners are all part of "Miles Fish Travels LLC".
Miles Fish (MilesFish.com)
Travel and explore Tuscany with NWACC's Miles Fish. For 19 years Prof. Fish has spent summers teaching, studying, researching while home-based in Siena.
Miles has taught and conducted music ensembles at Northwest Arkansas Community College for more than twenty years. He is a National Endowment for Humanities “American’s Music Scholar”, Conrad Kruaft Research Grant Award recipient, two time NWACC faculty development grant, Innovative Grant winner, and NWACC Sabbatical recipient.
He is the founder of the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Benton County and for 10 years served as conductor/artistic director. Later he was a founder of The Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra and served one season as conductor.
In addition to teaching and traveling he has, for the past decade, been instrumental in creating innovative international programs for NWACC students and members of the NWA community.
Short History of Miles in Siena: Since the year 2000 Miles has spent summers traveling, studying, and researching in Europe. For the last 19 summers he has been a resident of Siena, Italy. Five summers he was associated with an SSMA, (Sessione Senese Per La Musica E L’Arte) an American music summer school in Siena. Four summers he attended master classes in conducting at Siena’s Accademia Chigiana music conservatory (http://eng.chigiana.it ). Other summers Siena was home base while traveling to Venice, Florence, Turin, Dresden, Vienna, Salzburg, and Bonn researching and writing about Italian Composer Antonio Vivaldi, Mozart, and Beethoven.
Miles has hosted more than a dozen group tours to Tuscany and, since 2016 has planned and accompanied students to NWACC’s Study Abroad campus in Siena. He has more than 50 travel related Youtubes that have received more than 80,000 views (Miles Dayton Fish at Youtube).
Miles' travel enterprises, trips, tours, and dinners are all part of "Miles Fish Travels LLC".
the Garden at Siena's Hotel Palazzo Ravizza
NWACC Artists in Italy includes:
Accommodations at Siena's Hotel Palazzo Ravizza for 7 nights
Accommodations at Florence's Hotel Pierre for 2 nights
Two meals per day: breakfast and lunch or dinner
Four off-site Painting Excursions to Pienze, Brolio vineyards, Castello della Quattro Torra, Piazza Michelangelo
Private transportation to all excursions
The maximum number of artists for this retreat is 20
You may contact the NWACC Foundation Office
and request to be placed on an
"Artists in Italy interest list"
PHONE: Lauren at the NWACC Foundation office 479-619-43212
To secure a place, a $500 deposit can be made after August 10
Payment in full will be due December 10, 2019
Deposits and payments are 100% refundable until December 10
After December 10, refunds are not possible. However, if a cancellation after December 10 is necessary, we will work with you to fill the spot and should we fill it, a full refund can be made.
Partial refunds for late arrivals due to personal or airline delays are not possible.
After the trip "makes" we will have a meeting for those members who want to find a roommate within the group.
Single room supplements are available.
Some triple room are available
Miles' travel enterprises, trips, tours, and dinners are all part of "Miles Fish Travels LLC".
CONTACT PERSONS:
NWACC Artists in Italy: Miles Fish, MilesFish@mac.com 479-366-3331
NWACC Foundation Signup Info: Lauren Cardwell, 479-619-4321