Buon Natale!

Dec | 18

Students from the fall semester have returned to the United States and the Umbra Institute is preparing to welcome a new semester of students in January. Happy Holidays! Buon Natale! Read More
Talents – Fall 2006

Dec | 11

Every semester Umbra students protest that they have no talents, and yet every semester we of the staff are shocked at just how gifted they are. Last Thursday’s Spettacolo di Fine Corso (End of Semester Show, the talent show) was... Read More
Umbra Art Show

Dec | 06

Yesterday evening, December 5th, was the Umbra Institute’s thrice-annual Student Art Exposition. Refreshments were served while student artists talked about their pieces with other students, faculty, staff and (a pleasant surprise!) a respectable number of visitors from the community. One... Read More
RyanAir Lands in Perugia!

Nov | 29

Starting December 20th, Perugia’s Sant’Egidio Airport will clear it’s runways for a welcome addition, Ryan Air. Perugia will soon have direct connections to one of Europe’s most popular travel destinations, London, England. Ryan Air is Europe’s original and largest low... Read More
Pettit in Paris

Nov | 28

Paintings of Italian landscapes, of raw meat, and of abstractions; poems of love lost and laughs had; songs about living on Venus and cold beer at five; homemade wine and an olive orchard in the backyard. It's Umbra Institute's own... Read More
School Days by Jen Keehner

Nov | 21

Today I had one of the best experiences of my Italian adventure. We didn't take a train anywhere. In fact, our destination was about a twenty minute walk from our school. There were no famous pieces of art or history... Read More

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