Meet An Artist in Palermo

I’ve spent a busy couple of days in Palermo seeing cousins, doing some business, and scouting out artists’ shops and workshops for our Experience Sicily clients to consider visiting when they are in Italy’s 2018 Capital of Culture.

For example, if you are a knitter, and I know some of you are, you could spend an hour of so with Giulietta Salmeri who creates beautiful rugs, scarves, and other articles of clothing in Palermo’s historic center. Giulietta is a member of Artes. Associazione culturale di artigianato tessile, one of a couple of artist networks that I visited with my cousin Giulia today.

Palermo is bustling with so many wonderful artisan shops and products from textiles to jewelry to paper products and leather goods… Bring your wallet, because you’ll enjoy browsing and buying!

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Allison Scola is founder, owner, and curator of Experience Sicily and the Cannoli Crawl. Named one of the experts for the 2019 New York Times Travel Show, Scola writes and lectures on Sicily and leads immersive tours and designs custom itineraries that delight discerning travelers. She has been featured on Rudy Maxa’s World with the Carey’s, America’s #1 Travel Radio Show and as the cannoli expert in the documentary Cannoli, Traditions Around the Table. Scola has lectured about Sicily at University of Pennsylvania, The New School, LIU Post University, Queens College, Westchester Italian Cultural Center, at high schools in the New York City metropolitan area, and at events in New York City.

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