Travel in Italy: vacation ideas from Adventures in Italy

Trips

Our trips are a mix of cultural immersion and hands-on learning. Unpack your bags for the week and truly experience this charming place. Italians embrace life, making it an artful exposition. To capture this basic truth, the week is peppered with local experiences and interactions. At the very least you will:
   • Be introduced to the joys of Italian Culture by local Orvietani
   • Cook a meal with an Italian chef, enjoying your creation
   • Visit a vineyard and taste Orvieto Classico wine
   • Experience the local produce, meat, cheese and fish market
   • Be introduced to local wine through a wine tasting your 1st day
   • Take part in the passeggiata - the traditional evening walk
   • See perhaps the best Gothic cathedral in all of Italy
   • Learn about Italy's Etruscan ancestors dating to 800 B.C.
What's more, depending on the trip you choose from the vacation ideas below, you will enjoy other activities and experiences. Listed below are trips for at least the next 3 seasons. Browse our vacation ideas, and let us know if you have any questions. We are here to help you!

Read about the latest developments and deals on upcoming trips at Make Haste Slowly, our blog. See pictures of the Orvieto experience and what fun your trip will be.

September-October 2008
• Up Above the World So High - Jane Powell
Work with all the many resources and inspirations offered by
Orvieto to create a most innovative, texture filled book.
• The Poetry of Place - Irene Dumas Tyson
Artist, architect and community planner, Irene Tyson uses drawing,
painting, and writing to learn how to understand how some places
in our communities speak to our hearts.
• Italian Inspirations: Photos to Fabric - Mary Ellen Kranz
Mary Ellen marries her computer career to fabric by guiding
students in taking digital images and transforming them on to
fabric in beautiful ways.
• Orvieto with Taste - Kristi and Bill Steiner
Join us for a week of exceptional food during Orvieto's Slow Food
Festival. Enjoy restaurants with special menus, wine tastings,
indigenous food for sale, cave tour. Italian food and life at its best.
• Art as Inner Landscape - Roger Bryant
Using the stunning frescoes from Orvieto Cathedral's San Brizio
chapel, explore your inner world and creativity.

May 2009
• Savoring the Artful Life - Kristi and Bill Steiner
Italians are masters at bringing art to life. Meet with locals who
share their enthusiasm and insights on life, and live a little of the
'dolce vita' - sweet life.
• Book of Inspiration - An Italian Abecedarium - Lisa Engelbrecht
Draw on the concept of an “abecedarium” of the 1800’s (children's
   learning book) to create a wholly personal alphabet book. A matchless
   Italian experience serve as inspiration for each page.
• Nature Inspired Journal - Tracie and Marylin Huskamp
Capture Orvieto's flora and fauna in creating an altered fiber journal.
Use natural elements, photos and paint to construct your journal.
• Collage of Italian Memories - Susan Edmonson
   Learn new, innovative techniques as you create an embellished
   fabric collage wall hanging designed to capture your memories of
   Italy.
• Embracing Italy through Soulful Assemblage - Annie Lockhart
Quiet the critic within and use the inspiration of Italy to create a
wall hanging, visual memory of yout trip.
• Painting the Landscape - Dan L. Carrel
Learn how to paint and tap your natural creativity. Dan has
demonstrated through his teaching that anyone can paint.

September - October 2009
• Italy: Colors of the Heart, Textures of the Soul - Katie Kendrick
   Focus on your natural creative abilities in this visual journaling
   class.
• Sketches of Italy: Dreaming in Paint - Judy Wise
   Get out in the beautiful plein air of Orvieto and create the perfect
   painted portfolio memory of your trip.
• The Journal as Reliquary - Catherine Moore
   Create an altered book masterpiece, which builds on your Orvieto
   experience with chapters representing the city's history & culture.
• Orvieto with Taste - Kristi and Bill Steiner
Join us for a week of exceptional food during Orvieto's Slow Food
Festival. Enjoy restaurants with special menus, wine tastings,
indigenous food for sale, cave tour. Italian food and life at its best.
• Between the Lines: Translating our nonverbal language
Ellen Kochansky, artist, teacher, and community collabortator
uses found materials in Orvieto to help express what we know
and see without words.
• Souls in Flight - Ruth Rae
Learn the foundations of metal smithing and design a mixed media
fiber and paper journal to capture your travel adventures and house
your metal work.

Want a friend or spouse to join you? If you have a friend or spouse who would like to join you in Italy, s/he can enjoy our companion trip. This trip enables your companion to join you in all your culutral activities, explore with you when you are on "assignment," provides additional activities while you are busy, but leaves plenty of time to enjoy the many delights of Orvieto. Click here for details.

   Trips by Learning Subject
               and Teacher

Italian Culture, Food and Wine
Although integral to every trip, the following offer in-depth experiences emphasizing culture, food and wine.
• Savor the Artful Life, May '08 and '09
• Orvieto with Taste, Sept-Oct, 2008

Assemblage
Annie Lockhart - May 2009

Book Arts
Sept/Oct 2008 - Jane Powell
         "            - Irene Dumas Tyson
May 2009 - Lisa Englebrecht
         "     - Marylin & Tracie Huskamp
Sept/Oct 2009 - Catherine Moore

Journaling/Calligraphy/Writing
Sept/Oct 2008 - Jane Powell
         "            - Roger Bryant
         "            - Irene Dumas Tyson
May 2009 - Lisa Englebrecht
Sept/Oct 2009 - Katie Kendrick
         "            - Catherine Moore
Coming May 2010 - Jane LaFazio

Collage and Mixed Media
Sept/Oct 2008 - Jane Powell
         "            - Roger Bryant
May 2009 - Lisa Englebrecht
         "     - Marylin & Tracie Huskamp
         "     - Susan Edmonson
         "     - Annie Lockhart
Sept/Oct 2009 - Katie Kendrick
         "            - Catherine Moore
         "            - Ellen Kochansky
         "            - Ruth Rae

Drawing/Painting
Sept/Oct 2008 - Irene Dumas Tyson
         "            - Roger Bryant
May 2009 - Marylin & Tracie Huskamp
         "     - Susan Edmonson
         "     - Dan Carrel
Sept/Oct 2009 - Katie Kendrick
         "            - Judy Wise
Coming May 2010 - Kelly Rae Roberts
         "                 - Jane LaFazio

Fiber Arts, Textiles and Quilting
Sept/Oct 2008 - Mary Ellen Kranz
May 2009 - Lisa Englebrecht
          "    - Susan Edmonson
          "    - Marylin & Tracie Huskamp

Jewelry
Sept/Oct 2009 - Ruth Rae
Coming May 2010 - Stephanie Lee