Assisi is our home-base, but all of Italy is our sourcebook.Students travel widely to see some of the greatest works of art & architecture of all times At HSIA, students learn to connect individually and constructively to the great art we see together in collages, sketches, poems, prose, architectural drawings, and photography. In partcular, HSIA gives students the great art and architecture of the past (Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Medieval and Renaissance) and makes it part of their lives forever. Students have classes in the morning which are doors into the art we travel afternoons to see. Learning at HSIA is interdisciplinary; students read passages from Homer and then look at Greek vase paintings of the same subject. Or they read a Robert Browning monologue on Filippo Lippi, and use it to understand the painter's colors in his lively fresco cycle in nearby Spoleto. Or in the our landscape painting afternoon activity, students study the history of landscape painting and travel to see the best examples of Classical and Renaissance works. We help students to broaden their visual vocabulary and discover which periods and artists of the past can inspire them in their lives and their works.

Course leader
Humanities Spring in Assisi is a not-for-profit Italian cultural association, founded by an American classicist and poet from New York City who is also deeply interested in the visual arts.. We are a group of teachers who have been looking at art and rea

Target group
We are interested in high school and university students with a true interest in art. All courses are conducted in English, but English does not have to be your first language.

Course aim
HSIA brings the great art of the past (Greek, Roman, Etrsucan, Medieval, and Reniassance) to life for students and makes it part of their lives together. Students experience works of art in context and in their Italian context. So for example we walk along the ramparts of an early Renaissance castle near lake Trasimene, and experience together its hexagonal form, an innovation at the time. This leads to discussions of architecture as sculpture, to the Guggnenheim Museum in New York City, and to students' own past and personal experience of great architecture, both contemporary and of the past. Or, we look at examples of ancient Roman collage and compare them to the work of Jasoer John and to oollages students have made at Humanities Spring. We also talk a great deal about the content of the work we look at, and ask students to connect it to their lives. At Humanities Spring, we believe that art can help us both to ask questions and solve problems. We also like to stretch our students; tot expose them to art and literature they might not have experienced or learned to love if they had not come to Humanities Spring. We are a small lively community; conversation is at the heart of the HS experience.

Credits info
Students have often applied and received credit for their work at Humanities Spring, from both high schools and universities

Fee info
EUR 2: The HSIA fee covers all expenses while at HS -- room, board, tuition, all entrance fees and all travling expenses within Italy. It does not cover airfare to Italy and our occasional meal out (once or twice a week). We are a not-for-profit and offer a wide range of partial scholarships to students who are truly interested in the Humanites Spring experience.



Scholarships
Scholarships at HSIA are of three types: work-study, which includes the possibility of working as a counselor at our HS Kids actors, sculptures, and cooks program (an intensive full-immersion English camp for Italian children, with week-long sessions thro

Humanities Spring
Address: Classics, S.M. di Lignano, 2 Assisi (PG)
Postal code: 06081
City: Assisi
Country: Italy
Website: http://www.humanitiesspring.com
E-mail: info@humanitiesspring.com
Phone: 39-075802400