Partnership Programs for
Ceramics Art Organizations

What we offer

1-week Ceramic Arts and Culture tour, in Faenza, the capital of ceramics in Italy.

  • Direct, intimate connections with artists, artisans, museum directors and curators, steeped in the historic traditions of ceramics art, while also exploring modernity.

  • Participation in the bi-annual international ceramics festival, Argilla.

Benefits for partners

  • Your followers and members will have an opportunity to explore Italian ceramics and culture at its very origin and in an intimate manner, meeting with artists, museum directors and curators.

  • Possible compensation from referrals or discount for staff members.

  • Your organization will be contributing to collaboration between the creative communities in the United States and Faenza, Italy.

  • Your followers will fall in love with rural Italy and appreciate your facilitating role.

Partners contribution

  • Promotion of Esperienza’s travel programs to your membership, such as:

    • Online open house for your members hosted by Esperienza

    • Announcement in your organization’s e-newsletter

    • Links and/or listing on your website

  • Potential future collaboration in ways that benefit both organizations, such as a co-sponsored trip.

About Esperienza

Esperienza, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit travel organization, was created to offer a new kind of tourism, which not only nurtures and inspires travelers, but also celebrates and sustains the local communities we visit. Esperienza focuses on slow, immersive, meaningful travel experiences in selected villages and small towns in Romagna, Italy. In addition, we support a variety of charitable projects in rural Romagna.

Esperienza financially contributes to the region via:

  • Focus on independent chefs, farmers, artisans and small businesses.

  • Donation of sustaining funds for cultural vitality in The World of Tonino Guerra Museum and other cultural organizations.

  • Support for biodiversity through Isabella dalla Ragione’s Archeologia Arborea Foundation. 

  • Direct donations to local nonprofits to help rural communities affected by the 2023 floods. We also donated directly to 4 artists in Faenza who lost their studios due the unprecedented floods.

  • Planting trees in the Sasso Simone e Simoncello regional park, to assure our tours are carbon neutral.

Our Other Tours

  • 1-week art and culture tour, exploring a variety of Italian art forms including ceramics, mosaics and textile arts, featuring exclusive museum visits, behind-the-scenes conversations with artists and artisans and private visits to workshops and studios.

  • 1-week culinary immersion in Emilia-Romagna (farmers to classroom to winery to table, including 2 classes with Michelin chefs followed by dinners at Michelin-rated restaurants as well as class and lunch at Casa Artusi, the unique center and foundation dedicated to home cooking and to the father of Italian cuisine, Pellegrino Artusi.

  • 11-day hiking experience on the Cammino di San Francesco, from Rimini to the Sanctuary in La Verna, plus two days in a mountain spa town.

  • 1-2 week language immersion in the village of Verucchio, Emilia Romagna, Italy, with engaging classroom instruction and immersive, interactive activities to practice your language skills.