CITRONELLA SARP 2019

11- 17 August 2019, Galleria SARP

SARP presents Sicily Artist in Residence Program, 2019.  SARP is a program for young artists under the age of thirty.
The artists were selected by the best European and American colleges. The 2019 edition saw 3 young emerging artists guests from 22 July to 12 August at Palazzo Previtera, in the Etna village of Linguaglossa (CT), for three weeks of creativity and accompanied by workshops with exceptional speakers. A workshop on art and material history was held by Oprhah Shemesh, an internationally renowned American artist and collaborator of Cy Twombly and Meyer Shapiro. In this workshop the students learned how to create an emulsion of paint with egg, beer and tempera. Briana Pegado, Director and Co-Founder of Edinburgh Students Art Festival, held a workshop on psychology and art communication. The famous Israeli artist Guy Yanai, godfather of Citronella, opened the public vernissage held on August 9 at the end of the program.