PANDORA workshops on arts and crafts
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THE COURSE TUTORS
 

AAGAARD Lise has been a professional jeweler for 15 years. Working mainly in silver and gold with a special interest in glass bead making. She studied glass for one year at Urban Glass, New York. PERSONAL SITE
DI FIORE Miriam, was born in Argentina. After many years of experience as a potter she moved to Milan (1983) where she now practices glassmaking. After having worked in interior design, she became involved in sculpture, and displayed her works in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad (Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Moscow). She holds courses for professional glass workers in Spain and Thailand, and collaborates with Narcissus Quagliata in teaching and working with glass. images
FATONE Alessia images
FRIZZARIN Mariateresa, learned pottery in Faenza, following classes on throwing and traditional decoration of majolica; studies also in Spain where practice high temperature techniques. She is now a profesional potter in Turin.
GALLENI Riccardo, from Pietrasanta, is a sculptor and an etcher. He taught at the Academy in Carrara (were he also studied) and he is now head of engraving at the Academy in Milan. His many works are to be found in several museums and collections even abroad. He has worked a lot in Scandinavian countries.
MARCASSOLI Nives, works and lives in Pavia, where runs a workshop of various glass techniques. Specialized in glass fusing, she worked together with various glass artists, such as Tom Rowney, Jorg Kleiner and Miriam Di Fiore.
MOLHO Josette, is a professional jeweller of French origin. She run for long time a workshop in Rome (Trastevere). Her style is much involved in ethnical athmosphere; her preferred metal is silver, worked with the technique of "cire perdue", with which she produces rings, bracialets and other various necklaces with a mix of modern and tribal influence. Her pieces appear often in films for cinema and television. Now she lives both in Rome and Sorano.
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MONTEFIORE Ulrico. Artist who has worked inernationally, having had his own sudios in Lodon and New York. Lecturer at the College of art and Crafts of Kingston upon Hull (GB); uccessively lecturer at the City Literary Institute of Londra and visiting professor and artist in residence at over fifty American universities.
Principal exhibitions: Brooklyn Museum di New York, 1957 - 15eme Salon des Realistes Nouvelles a Parigi, 1960- Insitute of Contemporary Arts di Londra, 1964 - Civic Musum di Hull, 1966 - Palazzo della Permanente di Milano, 1974 - Artisti di Brera, Milano 1993 - Artisti di Brera a Olimpia, Grecia, 1966.
Cair of Decorative Arts at the Accademia di belle Arti, Macerata and at the Accademia di Brera, Milan, 1980-1999.
In recent years has undertaken research in microcasting, to enhance creativity using innovative techniques.
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PIZZOL Sante, after attending many studio workshops, he founded his own Studio in Milan, in 1960 which is one of the most prestigious centers for the production of artistic stained glass. His works are to be found in several foreign countries (mainly in Japan). He has been awarded many prizes for his works and he is often asked to collaborate with cultural media programmes. In 1993 he wrote a handbook on glass.PERSONAL SITE
PUCCITELLI Mauro was born at Cingoli (MC) in 1952; in 1971 he takes the degree at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Pesaro in painting techniques, From 1973 He teaches painting and applied arts in several High Art Schools, now at Macerata. Since 1982 he starts working with glass, getting deeper with most of the glass techniques, as blowing, fusing and stained glass. But the lamp working techniques are his favourites and the ones in which he achieves greatness. He attends several glass workshops in Murano and collaborates with various Masters of glass. He use to participte to exhibitions and public demonstratins all over Italy. He lives and works in Macerata (Marche). images
QUARTIERI Valentina PERSONAL SITE

SCALA Paolo, Lucani Eleonora. images
SOLA Andrea, after graduating in philosophy in Venice in 1980 began working as a ceramist in Sorano in Tuscany where he opened his own workshop. After an in depth study of the various techniques of majolica molding and firing, he founded the Studio Pandora, creating a Summer School which has been operating since 1983. In 1985 he worked as a ceramist in California. In 1986 he opened a new branch of the Studio Pandora in Turin which, in addition to holding courses on the various applications of ceramics techniques, also incorporated a gallery for the exhibition of ceramic sculpture. Since 1990 he has been the artistic director of the "Art and Handcraft Summer Courses" of Pandora Cultural Association. He is also the director of the Arts and Crafts magazine "Pandora". images
TAMASSIA Sergio, painter and graphic artist from Florence, has been active since 1967. He has travelled and worked in various countries throughout Europe and the USA. He is especially interested in methods of teaching art, and has founded a painting school in Florence. His most recent personal exhibitions have taken place in Venice, Germany, Holland and Austria. He lives and works in Sorano where follows pojects on visual arts education for children in primary schools of the area. images
TRIPALDI Luca is a potter now working in Turin. He is also working as scenography builder, expert in different plastic materials (Tearro regio of turin, Arena of Verona, Spoleto Festival). He had long working eperiences in Spain and France in the field of stoneware and porcelain. images

VOGHERA Massimo. Graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Turin, he is teacher of scenography at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna and Turin. Since 18 years he works as painter scenographer at the Royal Theatre, at the Teatro Stabile in Turin, the Theatre Donizzetti of Bergamo and others. He also cooperate with various architectural and design studio to study and realize wall painting projects. images

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