The Alto Liccio Project was born from the successful encounter between higher education, artistic inspiration and professionalism, entirely planned online and close to start, in presence, in early June.

The School of Decoration of the Accademia di Brera in Milan and the Arazzeria Scassa in Asti organize a course that involves a training for a selected group of students directly in the atelier, at the historic headquarters of the Arazzeria, in Asti.

This is the best way to introduce students to the ancient tradition of tapestry production, a form of excellent craftsmanship that has had great importance not only in the past of Art History but also in the context of more contemporary artistic research.

The fifteen students of the Academy have been selected from around seventy participants and they will have the opportunity to have a first-hand professional life working inside the Atelier, as protagonists of the entire creative cycle, from the selection of materials, to technical practice and to the thousand variables that the knowledge of art transmitted as a Renaissance workshop, which still happens today in a few privileged places, for example in the Arazzeria Scassa.

The idea and selection of the projects took place online, during the months of the pandemic; Massimo Bilotta, director of the Arazzeria Scassa, and Professor Sergio Nannicola, assisted by his colleagues from the Academy, thought for a long time about which sketches best suited the needs that loom art imposes and thus a shortlist of names was drawn, which welcomes young people from other continents. In addition to this they will experience the land of Asti, deepening interesting cultural aspects.

They will reside, for the duration of the course, at the Antica Casa Nebiolo in Migliandolo d’Asti, home of the Tavola di Migliandolo Artist Residence, an interesting and lively place that is not new to initiatives of this type.

It will be interesting to follow the development of this project, which sees in the front row, as teachers, the two historical weavers of Arazzeria Scassa, Katia and Franca Alcaro: to them and to Massimo Bilotta the task of spreading and transmitting the ancient knowledge of the tapestry art, which today encounters notable developments in Fiber Art and in the different concepts of textile design.