who we are
Together we have collaborated on projects, papers, participated in conferences, and co-taught hands-on courses about the origins of artistic resources and techniques. Our collaborative courses through Stonehill College include Fresco Painting, The Origin of Resources: From Farm to Studio, and The Mindful Palette are held throughout the year at various locations in Italy such as The Spannocchia Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, the Archaeologia Arboria, and Officina Stamperia del Notaio.
Through academic conferences and artist residencies, travel is an important part of our personal research and artistic production and has brought us to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, Cyprus, Egypt, Ireland, and France.
We were recipients of a research grant from the Fondazione Cini in Venice in 2017 and our current research is supported in part by a Temple University OVPR Art and Humanities grant.
Candice Smith Corby
Candice Smith Corby is an artist as well as a professor and the Director of the Carol Calo Gallery in the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Stonehill College near Boston, MA. She is interested in connecting contemporary image-making with historical methods and materials. She is a 2008 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in painting, a 2011 Dave Bown Project Grantee, and received a 2013 Awesome Foundation grant.
William A. Pettit
William A. Pettit III is an artist and professor at John Cabot University and Temple University in Rome, Italy. He works with ancient and contemporary painting media, as well as video and sound. Resident in the Sabina area since 1997, he has a love and knowledge of the region, its food and artistic heritage. He has exhibited in Philadelphia, Paris, Rome, Assisi, Spoleto, Tuscania, and Gubbio since 2001. His book of poetry, Ghost Songs, was published by Casagrande Press in 2009.