Leo Marchutz School Of Painting & Drawing Inc

Spring Landscape Painting Workshop in Venice, Italy (April 2024): A one-week painting workshop intended for students of all ages/experience levels. 6 participants, aged 64-76, joined the program. The Leo Marchutz School has been taking students to Venice for a week in April for 40 years and this program allows students to give themselves over to painting and drawing for seven straight days in the famed canals of Venice, Italy.

Imagination & Form in Great Works of Art: A Museum Study Seminar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (September/October 2023): A wonderful group of 7 participants gathered in Philadelphia from Friday, September 29 through Sunday, October 1, 2023 for a long-weekend museum study seminar: Imagination & Form in Great Works of Art, which drew upon art historian Lionello Venturis book, Painting and Painters - How to Look at a Picture, From Giotto to Chagall. The group went on a deep dive into the imaginations of some of the great artists represented in the museums of Philadelphia, including the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum seminar included texts by renowned artists, writers, and thinkers as the group spent extensive time discussing together what they found while taking long looks at artworks to discover meaning through the form of each work of art.