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Celebrating International Women's Day
Happy International Women's Day!
Now is the time of year when Siena is awash in gold, as the mimosa trees’ clusters of yellow flowers are in bloom across the country!
In Italy, since WWII, the mimosa f...
Visiting Siena's Weekly Farmer's Market
Every Friday from 7:30am to 2pm is the weekly farmer's market in Siena's Lizza Park, alongside the main bus station of Piazza Gramsci. Local producers bring all kinds of locally-produced goods, including ...
AARGH European Project Activities Underway
The Siena Art Institute is participating in a project funded by the European Erasmus+ Program is AARGH!! - Art Against Radicalism and Genocide and for Human-rights!! This is an innovative multi-media,...
Our Spring Garden in Bloom!
Spring 2020 has arrived to our school garden! It is really exciting to see the flowers growing and the bees buzzing, thanks to the hard work of our instructor Bernardo Giorgi!
Part 2 of 2: Musicologist Guido Burchi March...
3 March 2020 | 6pm
Address: Il Punto|The Point, Via E. S. Piccolomini 2, Siena
StARTers: Assaggi d'Arte ("Tastes of Art") with Guido Burchi: discovering Handel, part 2...
Group critique for guidebook projects
Above are some snapshots from our group critique of booklet projects in yesterday's meeting of the Art & Society class, very happy to have our newly-arrived resident artist join us, Tatana Kellner.
For...
StARTers talk with musicologist Guido Burchi...
25 February 2020 | 6pm
Address: Il Punto|The Point, Via E. S. Piccolomini 2, Siena
StARTers: Assaggi d'Arte ("Tastes of Art" with Guido Burchi: discovering Handel
StARTers -...
Excursion to Perugia and Trasimeno Lake
Yesterday our students from the Siena School for Liberal Arts and the Siena Art Institute took a trip to Umbria. They explored the historic city of Perugia and also stopped by the giant lake Trasimeno, ...
Meeting Master Stone-Carver Emilio Frati
Our students from the Siena School for Liberal Arts and the Siena Art Institute were able to explore the Tempo Zulu stones with our instructor Bernardo Giorgi, contemporary interventions within the streets...
Brandeis In Siena Summer 2020
Brandeis-in-Siena: a special summer program developed in partnership with Brandeis University and the Siena Art Institute. In this intensive, culturally-immersive two-course summer program, students st...
Artist's Talk with Madyha Leghari Feb 11
Join us Tuesday February 11 at 6pm at the Siena Art Institute for an artist's talk with current artist-in-residence Madyha Leghari, kicking off the Spring 2020 season of our weekly series of talks "StARTers:...
Registration Open: Policromia Poetry Workshops...
Policromia Festival and Poetry Workshop Siena, Italy June 1-7, 2020
Application deadline: March 15, 2020
Travel to the heart of Tuscany for a week of poetry workshops, panel discussions, master clas...
Video: John K Melvin, Voci dal Vento
Check out the latest video on our YouTube channel with the Siena Art Institute's Fall Project Fellowship artist John K Melvin. Installation at the Santa Chiara Lab open to the public through February...
Seeking Balkan partners for upcoming European...
The Siena Art Institute is currently seeing partners connected to the Balkan area to collaborate for an upcoming European project with the goal to benefit Balkan artists, their mobility and visibility,...
January 2020 Newsletter
Happy New Year from the Siena Art Institute! Our spring semester students have just arrived and our latest newsletter is here with some updates about recent & upcoming activities:
Special Programs 2...
OPEN DAY 5 Febbraio
++ ARTE, INGLESE, ARTIGIANATO E SOSTENIBILITÀ ++
Questo febbraio tornano i CITY ARTS del Siena Art Institute! Laboratori aperti a tutti, con tante promozioni e borse di studio per gli studenti UNISI ...
Spring Semester Orientation Trip
On Sunday Jan 26 we travelled to the hilltop town of San Gimignano with our newly-arrived students from the Siena Art Institute & Siena School for Liberal Arts. The day included a group lunch together and...
Exploring the historic center of San Gimignano
Our winter-term study-abroad students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago had the opportunity to tour the historic center of San Gimignano, a UNESCO world heritage site here in the Province...
Visit to Galleria Continua's Contemporary...
We enjoyed our visit today to Galleria Continua with our winter-term study-abroad art students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, seeing the contemporary art on display including work by...
Voci dal Vento - fino al 28 febbraio
Le ''voci dal margine'' negli scacciapensieri a vento di John K. Melvin al Santa Chiara Lab
Anziani, disabili e studenti protagonisti dell’opera collettiva ideata dall’artista americano in residenza a S...
