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UGA Cortona Studies Abroad For over 50 years, the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy offers a rich

Founded in 1970, the University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy has been a leader in international arts education. This Program provides a challenging opportunity for the serious art student who wishes to combine international travel with an intensive studio and classroom experience. The medieval hilltown of Cortona offers a rich historical environment where students can easily integrate with the lifestyle of a typical Italian community.

In Venice, our Fall 2026 Painting instructor Katelyn Chapman led students to Ca’ Pesaro to see an exhibition of works by...
10/13/2026

In Venice, our Fall 2026 Painting instructor Katelyn Chapman led students to Ca’ Pesaro to see an exhibition of works by the extraordinary painter Jenny Saville. The retrospective traced the artist’s trajectory from the beginnings of her career in the 1990s up until the present day. While Saville’s work is easily found in reproduction, the opportunity to experience in person its enormous scale and the sculptural tactility of the paint application was invaluable for young painters learning the craft.

Fall 2026 Jewelry and Metals instructor Jim Meyer introduced our art and fashion merchandising students to OHMYBLUE, a g...
10/13/2026

Fall 2026 Jewelry and Metals instructor Jim Meyer introduced our art and fashion merchandising students to OHMYBLUE, a gallery/retail space in Venice founded in 2013 by sisters Elena and Chiaralice Rizzi. Our students met the founders and questioned them about the strategies and challenges of marketing contemporary hand-crafted jewelry and other high-end wearable objects in a market already flooded with more affordable, mass-produced options.

While in Venice, our Fashion Merchandising students visited the Dries Van Noten Foundation’s installation, “The Only Tru...
10/13/2026

While in Venice, our Fashion Merchandising students visited the Dries Van Noten Foundation’s installation, “The Only True Protest is Beauty”, at the Palazzo Pisani Moretta. Over 200 works of fashion, jewelry, design, art, photography, glass, ceramics, and material experimentation were presented inside the historic 15th century palace to showcase established and emerging creators, and to celebrate the human dimension of making.

UGA Cortona’s autumnal pilgrimage to Venice is designed to give our students the opportunity to experience the Venice Bi...
10/13/2026

UGA Cortona’s autumnal pilgrimage to Venice is designed to give our students the opportunity to experience the Venice Biennale. Or, we should say, the bienniali, since when we visited this fall, the city was simultaneously hosting the bi-annual Homo Faber, an international celebration of contemporary craftsmanship. These two enormous exhibitions, along with all the collateral events embedded throughout the city, provided a practically limitless amount of art, design, and craft for our students to learn from.

In Venice, our students spent a morning exploring the Gallerie dell’Accademia with their instructors. The museum houses ...
10/09/2026

In Venice, our students spent a morning exploring the Gallerie dell’Accademia with their instructors. The museum houses a prodigious collection of Venetian art, including works by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Canaletto, Carpaccio, Rosalba Carriera, Luca Giordano, Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto, Mantegna, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese, Vasari, Leonardo da Vinci… and many, many others!

Both scholarship and program deadlines are coming up for our Summer 2027 programs! Apply today!
10/07/2026

Both scholarship and program deadlines are coming up for our Summer 2027 programs! Apply today!

After arriving in Venice by ferry we set out to explore the city's Dorsoduro and San Polo neighborhoods.
10/02/2026

After arriving in Venice by ferry we set out to explore the city's Dorsoduro and San Polo neighborhoods.

On our way to Venice, we stopped in the town of Stra for a guided tour of Villa Foscarini Rossi, home to the Rossimoda S...
10/02/2026

On our way to Venice, we stopped in the town of Stra for a guided tour of Villa Foscarini Rossi, home to the Rossimoda Shoe Museum. Our Fashion Merchandising students saw prototype shoes from dozens of major designers past and present, many of which were later manufactured by the Rossimoda family shoe factory in Stra.

One of the highlights of a Fall semester at UGA Cortona is the vendemmia, or grape harvest, from our very own vineyard a...
09/23/2026

One of the highlights of a Fall semester at UGA Cortona is the vendemmia, or grape harvest, from our very own vineyard at the Severini School! Our Fall students took a break from the studios and got their hands and feet sticky in the harvesting and crushing process, a tradition that has been part of Italian culture for millennia. We took a big bunches back to the dorm for eating, too - our grapes are especially sweet and concentrated this year, because it has been such an extraordinarily hot summer.
📷 credit: #8 - Laurel Meyer

For our first out-of-town Saturday excursion of the Fall 2026 semester, we spent the day exploring Siena!Art historian D...
09/23/2026

For our first out-of-town Saturday excursion of the Fall 2026 semester, we spent the day exploring Siena!

Art historian Dr. Aurelia D’Antonio guided students through the city’s medieval center to the Piazza del Campo, along the way talking about Siena’s history as a financial center, its foundation myth surrounding the twins Senio e Aschio, and the feat of engineering that allows the arrival of water to the Fonte Gaia. After touring the Museo Civico to view the recently restored Allegory of Good and Bad Government, we headed on to the Duomo to see the famous pulpit by Nicola Pisano, the Piccolomini Library with frescoes by Pinturicchio and Raphael, the San Giovanni Battista by Donatello, and the incredible marble floor mosaics, which (luckily for us!) are uncovered and visible at this time of the year. At the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Dr. D’Antonio lectured on Duccio’s celebrated Maestà, a massive polyptych made for the high altar of the cathedral.

Later in the afternoon, Ceramics instructor Alleghany Meadows led an optional visit to the Ospedale Santa Maria della Scala, where we saw Etruscan, Roman, and medieval ceramics and the original sculptures from the Fonte Gaia, and explored the shadowy labyrinthine spaces of the old hospital.

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