Ernesto Ballesteros's (CRF 2007) son Jacinto

Francine Prose (Advisory Council Member): Upcoming NYC Readings

Monday, May 9: New York Public Library, 5th Ave. and 42nd St.
7 PM, South Court Auditorium

Tuesday, May 10: McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince St.
7 PM

Friday, May 20: Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton St., Brooklyn
7:30 PM

Saturday, May 21: Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza
4 PM

Kay Ryan (Director's Guest 2011) wins Pulitzer Prize

Congratulations to Kay Ryan on winning the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.  The prize, announced today, was awarded for her book "The Best of It: New and Selected Poems".

Pinhole Days 2011

Lucy Clink (CRF 2011) and Francesco Capponi (CR Photographer 2010) will be showing their work at Ars Imago Fotografia in Rome, as part of the Pinhole Photography Days exhibit.

April 15 - April 23, 2011

Citta dell'Altra Economia
Rome

Daniel Zeller's (CRF 2007) son Jason Motoki was born in February

 

Congratulations to Daniel and Mika!

Civitella Annual Party

On April 7th, former and future Fellows, Director's Guests, and friends of Civitella gathered in New York to celebrate the 2010 season.  Composer Carman Moore (CRF 2010) spoke about his piece "Birds of Civitella", which was composed at the titular castle; John Kelly (CRF 2010, Advisory Council Member) performed a song; and 2010 Director's Guests Honor Moore and Victoria Redel read their poetry.  With artistic beauty and joy, and plenty of food, wine, and good company, the evening inhabited the Civitella spirit, and many thanks are due to all those who attended, performed, and helped make the celebration just that.

Chairman of the Board, John Roberts, with Executive Director Dana Prescott

Annie Gosfield (CRF 2009), on left, and Robert Boyd (CRF 2010), second from right

From left: Donna Masini (CRF 2011), Alessandro Stille (Director's Guest 2008), Dana Prescott

Carman Moore, on left

John Kelly, left, with Dave King

"When in Rome" - Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles

Manfredi Beninati (CRF 2012) and Pietro Ruffo (CRF 2012) will be showing their work as part of the upcoming "When in Rome" exhibition in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Depart Foundation.  The exhibition will be held in the spaces of the Italian Cultural Institute, as well as the Hammer Museum and LA><ART.

April 20 - May 21, 2011

Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles
1023 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024

http://www.departfoundation.com

Welcome to Freya Yost, our 2011 Intern

Civitella Ranieri Center is pleased to welcome Freya Yost as one of our interns for the 2011 season.

Freya was born in Lincoln, Vermont and from an early age loved to travel. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History at the American University of Rome, and studied at the Aegean Center for Fine Arts in Greece as well as the University of Nanjing in China.  Her Art History interests while in school focused on Italian Architecture and in particular the Fascist period.  Although in school she always studied Art History she has always been interested in the visual arts.  She has a passion for ceramics, botanical illustration, and painting that has kept her busy in her free time.

Her recent adventures took her to Asia where she spent three months researching Chinese, Korean and Japanese contemporary ceramics.  While working in a clay factory in Jingdezhen China, she learned to throw with the white porcelain of the region.  Freya is interested in the diverse groups of artists from around the world that are invited to the Civitella and looks forward to learning how artists are influenced by their environment.  She is curious to see how international artists share their individual cultures within the community and how that culture is affected by the context they are working within.  She is also curious as to how artists working in diverse mediums communicate and learn from each other.

News from Civitella

Maurizio unloads "palle di neve" or "snowball" shrubs to be planted along the borderline of the Fellows' Garden from the castle to the gazebo where we eat, on to the swing area.  In addition to flowering beautifully, the shrubs turn red in the fall and have an excellent root system for gripping the earth to fight against mudslides.

Sandra Tomboloni (Director's Guest 2008) - "Trasmigrazioni" at Galleria Biagiotti, Florence

Opening Saturday, April 16 at 6 PM

Galleria Biagiotti
Via delle belle donne, 39r
Florence, Italy
http://www.artbiagiotti.com/