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, […]
Love at First Fulbright – David & Benita Fuchs (Italy-1959)
On June 24, 1959, Benita Bross of Cleveland, Ohio, and David Fuchs of the Bronx, New York, both Fulbright recipients embarked on the USS Constitution to Genoa, Italy, to study history. It was an experience that was to change their lives forever. Both young high school history teachers, they went to study at the Institute […]