• just saying…

    just saying…

    A few testimonials from some wonderful students and adventurers that have participated in my past Civita Workshops. Come experience Civita with me this Fall 2018. Let’s begin the adventure. More information here: https://anitahlehmannteacher.com/civita-workshop/     ‘Civita is fantastically real, an artist’s dream. The spirit of this place is inspiring, breathtaking, and immediately captivating. Anita’s affection…

  • depictive to the evocative; let’s talk

    depictive to the evocative; let’s talk

    One of my purposes in studying drawing in Civita in 2013 was to further my teaching in the subject of abstract and begin to develop methods to understand this expressive side.Abstract drawing is the practice in which one represents their work using emotive powers, allowing the artist to fall into a meditative zone, representing ideas of the ‘unseen.’ These studies…

  • an open house: Civita Workshop 2018

    an open house: Civita Workshop 2018

  • into the wilderness: France

    It is a land of geese, foie gras and good cuisine. An amazing opportunity in April came my way; so lucky to be with 5 talented women studying the expressive landscapes of southern France in the region of Gers; a beautiful property nearby Castera Verduzan. Gers is in the southwest region of France, north of the Pyrenees,…

  • ‘bingo’

    bingo. I arrived home a month ago, really. My trip away was once again a huge learning experience; in Italy and France. I taught two sessions of evocative/depictive drawing in Civita di Bagnoregio through the Civita Institute in glorious Italy. This was my second year of teaching in Civita. I was awarded a fellowship in 2013 through…