Adventures in Orvieto, Italy trips | Jane Powell Up Above the World so High

Up Above the World So High

Dates: September 21 - 27, 2008
Instructor/Leader: Jane Powell

Trip Description
Work with Jane Powell and all the many resources and inspirations offered by Orvieto to create a most memorable painted, collaged and textured pedestal book. Orvieto serves as the resource for this book - one that has not been taught before. The book has a cone base, doors made from foam core, and is loaded with embellishments drawn from the week's experiences in Orvieto. The colors of Italy will serve as both inspiration and content for this memory catching project.

Visits to Orvieto's Etruscan caves, its stunning cathedral, and a nearby vineyard provide the raw material for the book.

Itinerary
Sept 21 - Arrive Orvieto, group dinner
Sept 22 - Book structure, color and texture possibilities;
Introduction to Italian culture, wine tasting
Sept 23 - Book layout, Orvieto colors; Etruscan cave tour
Sept 24 - Adding texture, creating doors; cooking class
Sept 25 - Cones and book covers, weekly market, vineyard
tour/wine tasting
Sept 26 - Binding, book assembly, finishing techniques
Sept 27 - Show and share, depart Orvieto

Details
Cost - $2250. Fee includes six nights double occupancy lodging and basic course materials. Single occupancy available for an additional cost. Because the tour is meant to expose you to the local culture, meals are not prearranged or included. Travel costs are not included.

Click here for registrations and terms, or contact us by e-mail, phone or writing at the contact information below.

A trip for companions is available for $1650.

Meet Jane Powell
Jane is a former corporate banker, who moved to the mountains of Western North Carolina in 1994 and never looked back, in an intense and life altering change. She owns and operates one of the Southeast's most exciting, energetic, altered arts store - Random Arts, recently featured in Cloth Paper Scissors. Random Arts is home for assorted goods for creative mindfulness. She has a four page spread of calling cards she created in the book Teeny Tiny Cards.

Jane teaches at her store and at select locations around the United States. Random Arts hosts many nationally recognized artists, offering innovative mixed-media workshops.

Jane's first love in life, that started at a very young age, was oil painting and she continued on it for many years until she found out about rubber stamping, altered art, collage and assemblage.

Learn more about Jane and her shop at www.randomartsnow.com and at www.randomartnotes.blogspot.com.