Video: CHALLENGE: 'INTERNATIONAL ARTISANS ANSWER'

CHALLENGE: Historic women artists inspire modern-day making

How will artisans of the present respond to female artists of the past? International female-run workshops will draw inspiration from the paintings and personalities of art history's female greats to design and create an original work. Florence-based Russian video-maker Olga Makarova is set to capture artisans' creative process in a documentary-short premiering on June 9, along with the pieces themselves at 'Sotto al British', a newly formed space for contemporary creativity. Artisans facing the 'challenge': Book binder Erin Ciulla, jewellery artisans Margherita de Martino Norante and Joy Franklin, leather artisan Stephanie Lehmann and potter Kirstie Mathieson.

WHO'S INVOLVED?

Project organisers   The British Institute of Florence and Il Palmerino Cultural Association

Oltrarno Gaze 2022 is made possible thanks to a grant by the Advancing Women Artists Legacy Fund, with special thanks to Alice Vogler, Donna Malin, Connie Clark, Pam Fortune, Nancy Hunt, Nancy Galliher and AWA Legacy Fund Director Margaret MacKinnon

Project conception and coordination

Linda Falcone

Media and communication

Calliope Arts / Restoration Conversations

The Florentine

With the patronage of

Consulate of the United States of America in Florence

Participating artisans   Erin Ciulla, Joy Franklin, Margherita de Martino Norante, Luca Parenti,, Stephanie Lehmann, Kirstie Mathieson

Video curators: Creative people in Florence: Anna Rosa, Sarah Sarah Amrhein