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Who was Emily Harvey? - Emily Harvey Foundation
In 1992 she married, Angelo Colombo, her Venetian friend, Her marriage to Angelo brought her to Venice for increasing lengths of time. Under Angelo's tutelage she began to learn Venetian Italian and to understand Venice, and the customs of its people. Out of this grew a commitment to Venice that never faded. Venice is a maze of canals, narrow streets and bridges, connecting a vast network of open campos large and small. Most visitors confine themselves to the big shopping streets, the huge piazza at San Marco, the Ponte Rialto and the Grand Canal. But Emily soon knew every little byway and every tiny campiello, and could navigate her way to any point in the city along dark narrow alleys known only to Venetians. She had a kayak, and learned the canals like a Venetian waterman, who called her "Treccia", pigtails, for the way she wore her hair.
The Emily Harvey Foundation offers residencies in Venice, Italy, for artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, photographers, videographers, choreographers, dancers, musicians, curators, arts administrators, architects, and other creative thinkers in mid to late career who are engaged in the project of change, and who work the leading edges of their disciplines. They may come from anywhere in the world.
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