New beginnings: Iowa-Padova project
The Regione Veneto has a sisterhood with IOWA State (USA) and organized a series of events to share crosscultural ideas and problems to create a partnership and strengthen the relationships. Our High School participated in two conferences with a total of ninety students and three teachers. On March 16th three classes of our institute (5ABTS, 4ABTS and 4AEM) took part in a conference with culinary experts from Iowa, and they had the chance to exchange ideas and ask questions. The meeting started off with an important Italian chef and sommelier:
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Diego is an Italian chef, who worked for catering and weddings in Italy and studied at “L’enoteca” in Paris. He moved to Iowa 16 years ago. He described it as a very safe place and his family is very happy to live there. But as a chef, Diego had some issues to solve in order to serve his dishes. In America people want a lot of food with a lot of sauce on it, so he had to regulate his cooking style. He also explained that Americans’ tastes are different from the Italians’: the latter prefer having very different and separate flavors in their dishes, while the former prefer sour, savoury and sweet all together.
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On March 30th about thirty students of our High School took part in an important meeting of Art and American Culture.
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It’s interesting how art can be influenced by the historical period. The museums are closed and have to find a new way to share art with the public and that's exactly what the director of The Des Moines Art Centre, Jeff Fleming, has done. The beautiful museum made of three buildings, made by three different architects created a virtual tour on the website. But it does not end here, they promoted activities for studio classes, collaborations with other associations and created a channel for art classes. |
As Amy Worthen said “Art is what shows our humanity” for this reason we have to protect and share it as much as possible with the old and new generations. A lot of International and American artists are exhibited in the museum, Modern and Contemporary Art is the theme. In fact, the structure is art too. The first building was created in 1945 by Eliel Saarinen, the second in 1978 by I. M. Pei and the third in 1985 by Richard Meier.
Amy Worthen
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Thanks to this conference we discovered more about a beautiful and brilliant woman, engraver, printer and draftswoman, a complete artist. Her name is Amy Worthen. She was born in New York and moved to Iowa where she attended the High school of art & music. Then she started a Master Degree in Stampa d’arte at the University of Iowa. She also spent many years living in Venice, where she currently lives. She has approached art since she was a child thanks to her mom that was an artist too. She decided to become an engraver thanks to her studies of the Acquaforte technique. But the matrices that needed to be treated by acid and poisonous additives were dangerous in a house with babies, so after the gravidance, she converted to the engraving that needed only the burin to engrave the metal.
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Her art takes inspiration from the current events, the period and everything that surrounds her. The beauty of American and Venetian architecture is perfectly represented in the cure and attention with little details and seasoned with her fantasy, in a perfect mix of manuality and ink. While she engraves, she’s in her world and a beautiful light lights her face up. But she doesn't do only that. Political events and movements become part of her drawings and thanks to colours she can convey the essence of the moment. During quarantine, her art evolved and started to study the shadows and draw the wisteria flower, a beautiful and gentle flower just like the artist. At first, she was scared by the shadows because she was seeing them as the evil part of the world, but the shadow of the wisteria at the moonlight affected her in a positive way. She doesn't depict only physical things but also the essence, emotions and sounds that surround her. One of her most impressive works is the word “Vote” written together with the letter that she made and that became a real advert! She thinks that Art shows our humanity and it’s meant to be shared with people, to remember them how beautiful life can be. The Meucci-Fanoli Institute is glad to have met her and her works.
Nicol Baiti 5CL
CONCLUSIONE PROGETTO MOVE 5.0
MEUCCI GOES TO IRELAND
As part of the project Move coordinated by the teachers Tucci and Vassos, almost 90 students from our school had an amazing opportunity this summer: instead of staying up late and being lazy couch potatoes, we would have to leave our comfortable beds behind and fly to the greenest country-also known as Ireland- to study and go on various trips; some of us went to Bray, together with professor Pancotti and Portera, and another larger group went to Drogheda, together with professor Taraborrelli, Vassos, Notaro and Regiani. I would like to share with you my experience, as part of the “Tecnico” group based in Bray!
A series of images of the trip follows:
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Consegna attestati certificazione linguistica
Gli studenti che hanno conseguito la certificazione linguistica nel maggio 2019 possono ritirare l'attestato presso l'ufficio acquisti (Sig.ra Marlis Zanon) durante la ricreazione. |