Students and residents share modest apartments, all a short walk from the School buildings. Rooms are single and double-occupancy. The main school building, a former convent, has nine single rooms with a view of the Tiber River valley. Residents, Seminar students and CE students stay in single-occupancy rooms.
The School provides housecleaning services and clean sheets and towels weekly. Facilities in Montecastello are simple and involve stairs and hills, and are not suitable for people with special needs.
Classrooms and studios are in several great stone palazzi in the village of Montecastello. Each student is assigned a private or semi-private studio to study, and develop their own personal work, with 24-hour access, in a safe and work-conducive environment at the school. Students and residents may use the International School’s extensive art library, and video collection. There is 24-hour access to a telephone, and computers with DSL Internet access. Throughout the ancient town and out in the landscape are wonderful motifs and views to paint.
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The program fee includes three delicious Umbrian meals each day, excluding trip days. Students, residents and faculty enjoy meals together, enabling students to have close contact with their art mentors.
Meals are prepared in our professional kitchen. The food is simple and wholesome, with fresh produce from nearby farms, and prepared with care by local cooks. A typical lunch includes pasta, a meat dish, two vegetables and a legume, salad, fresh bread, mineral water, fruit and coffee. We serve a substantial continental style breakfast to prepare us for our work in the studio. As is traditional in Italian cuisine, dinner is lighter and satisfying, with a hot main course and plenty of vegetables and fruit, with soups and pasta. Evening meals are on the school’s rooftop terrace, overlooking the magnificent panorama of the Tiber River valley.
View from the school dining terrace
Students may wish to arrive in Rome a few days early to take advantage of the museums there and see the city before beginning the program.
The ongoing studio work is interspersed with weekly day-trips to study Italy’s millennia-old heritage of art, from ancient to contemporary, engaging artists in a dialogue with the masterworks of the past and present. We travel by chartered bus to Rome, Florence, Siena, Assisi, Perugia, Sansepolcro, and Arezzo.
A faculty member or visiting art historian gives preparatory lectures to enrich and enliven our trips. Students and faculty are then free to go independently or in groups to visit museums and churches, or anything they wish to see. Faculty and students may organize informal visits to nearby towns like Deruta, Orvieto and Spoleto, or return to places the group has visited. Car rental services and public transportation enable people to travel independently. The Student Handbook, sent to each student, contains a guide for our trips, as well as information on travel, what to pack, local resources, and details about living and working at the school.
Candidates should submit the completed application form, a non-refundable application fee of US$ 40 (or 30 Euro), names of two people that we may contact who know your character and your work (preferably current or former teachers for School applicants), and 12 slides, photos, or a CD of your recent work. School applicants should include at least four slides of drawings; CE applicants may include an essay in place of slides, although slides are preferable. There are no application deadlines, but the program is small and space is limited; we recommend that you apply early.
Our students may receive credit from their home institutions for work done at the International School, based on our transcript. Here is a partial list of schools that have given credit to students, or that have run credit programs with their own faculty at the International School:
Haverford College; Maryland Institute College of Art; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; University of Pennsylvania; University of South Carolina; Wichita State University.
| Artist's Residency and CE sessions: | ||
includes studio space, a single room, three meals a day, group
trips, and ground transportation from and to Fiumicino airport in Rome on the
first
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day of each session.
Residents and CE students may apply for less than a full session. |
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| May 29 - June 19 | 3 weeks | € 2500 |
| Aug. 21 - Sept. 18 | 4 weeks | € 3400 |
| One week | € 1000 | |
| School 6 or 3-week sessions: | ||
includes tuition, studio space, room, three meals
a day, group trips, and ground transportation from and to Rome on the first
and last day of each session. The additional charge for a single room,
when available, is 100 Euro per week. The same fees apply for Independent Residencies taken during the School sessions in the summer. Residents may take advantage of classes as they choose,
and request faculty critiques. |
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| May 29 - July 10 | 6 weeks | € 4800 |
| July 10 - August 21 | 6 weeks | € 4800 |
| May 29 - June 19 | 3 weeks | € 2500 |
| June 19 - July 10 | 3 weeks | € 2500 |
| July 10 - July 31 | 3 weeks | € 2500 |
| July 31 - August 21 | 3 weeks | € 2500 |
All fees must be received no later than one month before the session begins. Fees are calculated in Euros and include 20% IVA (value-added tax). Please see the Currency converter for the latest rates.
Please send applications together, or if not possible, indicate the name of your friend in the space on the application form for how you heard about the school. You and your friend must enroll for the full session. Other discounts are available to groups of 4 or more. Please email the school for more information.
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To hold your place in the program, we ask for a 500 Euro deposit (or equivalent in US dollars) upon acceptance.
If you have to leave the Program early (6-week session), you are entitled
to a refund as follows:
Before session begins - Full refund less an administrative fee of 500 Euro
Days 1 - 7: 75% of tuition paid
Days 8 - 14: 50% of tuition paid
After day 14: no refund
If you have to leave any 3 or 4-week program early, you are entitled to a
refund as follows:
Before session begins - Full refund less an administrative fee of 500 Euro
Days 1 - 7: 50% of fee paid
After day 7: no refund
If we cancel a session you are entitled to a full refund of fee paid.
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| D | esign, which by another name is called drawing, and consists of it, is the fount and body of painting and sculpture and architecture and of every other kind of art, and the root of all sciences. Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure; he will be able to make figures higher than any tower, either in colours or carved from the block. And he will be able to paint in fresco in the manner of old Italy, with all the mixtures and varieties of color usually employed in it. He will be able to paint in oils very suavely with more knowledge, daring, and patience than painters. Because great, very great is the power of design and drawing. |
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