JSS in Civita, and Optimizing Your Workshop Experience.

painting by Antrese Wood — La Casita Blanca

This past summer, I made a trip to Italy to participate in the JSS master program in Civita Castellana with Israel Hershberg and guest of honor Ann Gale.

The master program is an intense six week immersion into painting. It’s unlike any other workshop or program I’ve ever been to.

You’ve been asking for an episode about my experience there, but rather than paint kind of a ‘what I did on my summer break’ picture, I wanted to create something more useful for you.

Im going to talk about my experience in the context of how to get the most out of a course or workshop.

We’ll cover in depth a few concepts that are critical to doing this – and these concepts, by the way, apply to any learning experience. Afterwards, I’ll describe what the JSS program is like, because I’ve been getting a lot of questions about that.

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Links

JSS in Civita
Israel Hershberg and the interviews with Israel: Part One and Part Two.
Ann Gale
Yael Scalia

Connie Hayes and the interview here on Savvy Painter.
Gale Antokal
Kurt Moyer

Mastro Vincenzo

Hand-made Sketchbooks by Allison Kurke

Paintings

Painting by Antrese Wood

JSS in Civita

JSS students looking at The Flagellation of Christ, by Piero della Francesca

Breakfast. Fresh from the tree. Picked on the way to paint.

Cocktails at the Hershberg , Scalia residence

Apertifs and art talk at the Hershberg, Scalia residence.

This painting was killed in the line of duty. It started off well enough.

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