Faculty
Our teaching staff includes scholars and experts, all of whom are highly competent in their sectors of textile culture. All our teachers boast years of experience in teaching as well as in historic research and design work .
Eva Basile
Designer, textile expert and teacher of the Jacquard handweaving design and textile cataloguing.
Thessy Schoenholzer Nichols
A restorer and scholar of ancient costumes, embroideries and laces. She is the author of numerous essays on laces and costume.
Sanja Spasic
Laureata all’accademia di Belle Arti di Belgrado, si è specializzata in Design Industriale all’I.S.I.A. di Firenze con una tesi in design emozionale. La sua ricerca artistica l’ha portata a esplorare le possibilità creative della lana, dal punto di vista scultoreo e anche da quello tessile. Artista e docente, attualmente vive e lavora a Firenze.
Angela Giordano
Claudio D'Avanzo
Vittoria Valzania
Alessio Francesco Palmieri-Marinoni
Lorenzo Pesci
Adele Olivieri
Simona Lombardi
A restorer with expertise in a wide range of textile arts. Her work at Fondazione Lisio includes teaching of tapestry, rug/ carpet and fabric weaving and restoration...
Roberta Orsi Landini
Patricia Black
Patricia Black, once described as a “Poet of Cloth,” has worked in a range of artistic outlets: from designing theatre costumes to teaching dimensional textiles.
