Italy, Architecture, and The Vietnam Veterans Memorial – Paul Spreiregen – Italy 1954

Italy is an encyclopedia of architecture and urban design, the reason I wanted to live there and experience first hand those works that stand as living testimony to its many centuries of creativity. Its then contemporary works of architecture – this was the 1950s – were no less instructive and they, along with the treasures […]
The Golden Year – Evelyn Eller – Italy 1954

When I was 21, I received a Fulbright Grant to Italy. It was an inspiring and important part of my development as an artist and at age 87, I am still working and exhibiting. In 2016, I created an artist book about memories of my Fulbright year which included text from the State Department letters, […]