Workshops

Messors supports and promotes art and cultural heritage.

Our educational workshops are immersive experiences involving participants in hands-on, in-the-field and in-situ activities.

Since 1989, our comprehensive approach stimulates an engaging learning environment complemented by interactive and connecting experiential outcomes.

Our workshops and projects play a creative, dynamic role in conserving historical contexts, food culture, and archaeological and artistic treasures in the rich cultural settings of Puglia and Basilicata in Southern Italy.

In all the workshops offered, participants interact with experts and members of the region to explore ways tangible and intangible cultural patrimony and its conservation can substantially impact communities and larger cultural and social issues.

Our Approach

Program founder and director Tonio Creanza has been running fresco and art restoration workshops and sustainable preservation projects of historical sites for over 20 years. His passion for the historically rich region is echoed in the programs approaching them with the enthusiastic concept “to do is to learn”, recognizing the importance of process and learning through practice.

Historical architecture, ancient settlements, Byzantine frescoed caves, art and food culture heritage is our living school in which we acquire knowledge and tools.

History

In 1989 a collective of specialists with interests in conservation and regional artistic and cultural heritage, was established in Italy. Since its inception, the company has been working on archeological research, extensive restoration projects on frescoes, architecture, canvas, wood and stone statues and decorative painting, guided tours, educational field school projects, food anthropology, and study abroad university programs in fresco restoration and archeology.