Aegea Mosaici
Nadia Ridolfini and Tiziana Ferraresi
Via corsini 8, 00165 Rome, Italy [zona trastevere - orto botanico]
Tel: tel. [+39] 06 68 72 610
Fax: fax [+39] 06 68 72 610
Email: info@aegeamosaici.com
Web: www.aegeamosaici.com

We offer courses in mosaic for beginners, intermediate, advanced, and for people with disabilities. Our aim is to create a place where different generations, potentialities, competencies and artistic ambitions can all be expressed.

Accademia di Belle Arti

48100 Ravenna, Via di Roma 13
Tel: +544 213 641
Fax: 30378

The school teaches painting, sculpture and "Decoration", and offers a 4-year course on mosaic (Mosaico e Pittura Murale), which is open to foreign students.

Centro di Formazione Professionale "Albe Steiner"

48100 Ravenna, Via delle Industrie 76
Tel: +544 451 917

They offer two courses in mosaic, in Italian. The first is Mosaicista progettista (Mosaic Design), which usually runs from October to May (12 hours tuition). It is for students age 18 to (at most) 30; at present these include some from Greece, Germany, France and America. The course includes tracing and copying ancient mosaics, designing modern cartoons, mosaic techniques, computerised mosaic design, commercial mosaic, photography and business management. It also includes a period working in a local mosaic studio as a trainee. The second course is for Qualified Mosaicists, and covers the design and execution of modern wall and floor mosaics.

Centro Internazionale di Studi per l'Insegnamento del Mosaico (i.e. CISIM)

48020 Lido Adriano, Ravenna, Valae Parini 48
Tel: +544 494 086

They run two-week courses in mosaic between June and September. Languages spoken are Italian, French and English. There are three alternatives; an Introductory Course for beginners, with the aim of making simple copies of ancient mosaics, using marble and pebbles. There is an Advanced Course, where students make either modern mosaics or copy ancient ones, using a variety of materials. Finally there is Mosaic:Decorative Art, where mosaics are executed in various decorative arts contexts. This course is supervised by a local Ravenna artist with the help of an assistant. Lido Adriano is on the coast about 12 kilometres from Ravenna.

Enzo Aiello Mosaic Master Course
Enzo Aiello
Via Pesaro 7, 00176 Rome
Tel: + 39 06 8606419
Email: info@mosaicartcourses.com
Web: www.mosaicartcourses.com

Course Description:

Enzo Aiello runs mosaic art courses in his studio, very close to S.Giovanni Basilica. He has studied and worked at the Vatican Studio of Mosaic. Lessons are held in English and Italian. Participants don't need any materials or tools to participate in the course. Everything is provided: martellina (mosaic hammer), tagliolo, clay, lime, stones, tesserae, smalti, chisels, gauze, cement, etc. Students work in a nice environment. An attendance certificate is issued at the end of the course.

He teaches Roman and Byzantine mosaic and , only in the next year, micromosaic in the smalti filati technique.

Istituto Statale d'Arte per il Mosaico "G. Severini"

48100 Ravenna, Via Pietro Alighieri 8
Tel: +544 218 193
Fax: 31287

A secondary school for Italian students only, with tuition in restoring and copying mosaics, and in making modern ones.

loveSicily
Maestro Ignazio Cerruto
31 Goose Green, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 9QY
Tel: 07956941201
Email: contact@lovesicily.com
Web: www.lovesicily.com/index.php

Maestro Ignazio Cerruto (or Ezio as he like to be called) will provide an introduction into the techniques of mosaic art using both materials local to Ragusa as well as some of the more well known materials of Italy. At the same time, the practical knowledge will be complemented with trips to the city of Caltagirone, famous for the skills of the ceramic producers and designers, and Villa Romana del Casale at Piazza Armerina, where some of the most beautiful roman mosaics can be enjoyed.

Marco Berti : Pietrasanta
Marco Berti
Email: artground@aol.com
Web: www.marcoberti.com

The sun is warm, the Mediterranean at your doorstep, and the nearby mountains are silhouetted against the cobalt sky. Your days are spent in the artisan's studio, filled with beautiful pieces of classical sculpture, intently at work on your own special project - part of a tradition that dates back to Michelangelo

Master in Mosaic

Fax: + 39 0444 233 788
Email: megco@orsoni.com
Web: www.orsoni.com/default.asp?pc=008001000000002

In its historical compound in Venice, Italy, Orsoni has inaugurated the Master course entitled 'Living the Venice Workshop. History, Theory and Application of Mosaic Art'.

Mosaic Courses in Italy
Milena Gasperini and Susan Harlock
Via Barabana 838, 47836 Mondaino (RN), Italy
Tel: telephone: +39 0541 981510
Email: theblacks@libero.i
Web: www.italianmosaiccourses.com/

Well-known mosaic artists Milena Gasperini and Susan Harlock are now offering short mosaic courses in the beautiful and friendly village of Mondaino on the border between central Italy’s Romagna and Le Marche regions.

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