Work is underway for final projects, as we look ahead to our end-of-semester exhibition, which will open at the Siena Art Institute Saturday Dec 13.  (Via Tomasso Pendola 37, Siena)

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End-of-Semester Exhibition, Saturday December 13, 2014 from 4:30-7:30 PM
Presentations of works begins at 5:00 PM 
Mostra di Fine Semestre, sabato 13 dicembre 2014 dalle 16:30 alle 19:30
Presentazione delle opere ore 17:00

Here is a collection of snapshots from our Territories Symposium and Open Studio events Nov 14-15.  We’ll be able to share more footage of the symposium with you in the coming days, so please stay tuned!

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Join us Friday 5-7 pm for the Open Studios at the Siena Art Institute, featuring the work of our amazing group of students at the Siena Art Institute:

• Alexa Katz, USA
• Anna Fabrizi, Italy
• Antonis Tasoulis, Greece
• Eleonora Rotolo, Italy
• Giorgos Apostolopoulos, Greece
• Sofia Bteibet, Italy
• Sreyashi Bhattacharyya “Tinni”, India
• Yichong Hu “Della”, China

We hope you can also come to the Territories Symposium event Sunday 2-8 pm in Colle di Val D’Elsa, including the structures created by our students working alongside our Project Fellow Wafa Hourani for the collaborative installation “Today is Tomorrow: The Future of Colle.” Symposium speakers will include Jarrod Beck, Fabio Berti, Daniele Bortotto e Giorgia Zanellato, Emilio Distretti, Justin Peyser, & Wafa Hourani (Siena Art Institute Project Fellow) with Stefano Rabolli Panesera as moderator. For more details please visit: http://www.sienaart.org/news-…/territory-symposium-nov-14-15

Final touches are coming together on our collaborative installation “Today is Tomorrow: The Future of Colle!”  It’s exciting to see the city begin to take shape!

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Our students are making progress in their collaborative installation “Today is Tomorrow: The Future of Colle”, part of the project “ORIENTamenti: Reshaping Past Traditions.”  For more info about the project, visit http://www.sienaart.org/wafa-hourani-orientamenti.html

On Oct 14 our Fall 2014 Project Fellow Wafa Hourani presented a public lecture on the development of his artistic practice as part of our weekly series of artist’s talks, “stARTers: assaggi d’arte.”  For more info about Wafa Hourani, visit http://www.sienaart.org/wafa-hourani-bio.html

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Yesterday we had a very productive session with our fantastic group of student participants working alongside our Project Fellow Wafa Hourani to map out the different parts of our collaborative installation “Today is Tomorrow: The Future of Colle”.  Everyone is now finalizing their plans for their individual contributions to this collective work, envisioning how the local cityscape could be transformed in the future.  Students are thinking about what the future results of current dynamics might be such as embracing multiculturalism in the face of increasing immigration, innovative archives allowing more people to access the heritage and resources of the area, and heightened awareness for the need of energy efficiency and urban gardening to respond to the pace of climate change.  Full speed ahead!

Beginning work on our collaborative installation project using the “Photolife” technique of our Fall Project fellow, Wafa Hourani.

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