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EDUCATION

Sculpture Degree, Rome Academy of Fine Arts, BBAA, 1990.
B.F.A. Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design RISD, Providence, 1980.

TRAINING COURSES

1996 – In-depth Papermaking workshop. Carriage House, Brookline, MA USA, with Elaine and Donna Koretsky, Amanda Degener.
1985 – Woodcut. National Institute for the Graphic Arts, Rome. With Aristea Kritsotaki.
1982; 1983; Intaglio. National Institute for the Graphic Arts, Rome. With Mario Teleri Biason.
1982 – Collograph Printmaking. International Graphic School of Venice, Venice.
1981 – Intaglio. International Graphic School of Venice, Rome.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2018 – 2022 Contemporary Papermaking. Adjunct Professor, Temple University Rome, TUR.
2012 – 2022 Figure Modeling. Adjunct Professor, Temple University Rome, TUR.
2021 – 2022 Sculpture, Adjunct Professor, Pantheon Institute, Rome.
1996 – 2017 Sculpture. Adjunct Professor, Temple University Rome, TUR
2000 – 2011 Advanced Sculpture. Adjunct Professor, Temple University Rome, TUR.
1987 – 2022 Wood carving. Scuola delle Arti e dei Mestieri, Comune di Roma.
2003 – 2022 Drawing, Sculpture. Adjunct Professor, Loyola John Felice Rome Center, JFRC.
1994 – 2008; 2011; 2016; Drawing, Advanced Drawing, Art Studio. Adjunct Professor, Cornell AAP, Rome, Italy.
2008 – Survey Printmaking, Relief Printing, Papermaking, Fall semester. Visiting Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art, MICA Baltimore MD USA.
1996 – Papermaking, Summer session, Cornell, Itaca, NY USA.
1996 – 1997 Printmaking, Viterbo Academy of Fine Arts, Viterbo Italy.

WORKSHOPS

2021 “Recycle it!” HS students, Temple Rome, Rome Italy.
2020  “Papermaking as an Art form“ at Temple University Rome, Adult education. Rome Italy.
Recycle it!” HS students, Temple Rome, Rome Italy.
2014  Chief committee for workshops and demos, IAPMA XV Congress, Fabriano, Italy.
“Papermaking” at RISD EHP European Honors Program. Rome, Italy.
2011   “High tension paper” at PaperWaspe. Wien, Austria.
2009  “Waterjets and pulp painting” at Silkeborg Museum. Silkeborg, Denmark.
2009  “Papermaking for Printmakers” at RISD EHP. Rome, Italy.
2008  “Hot paper casting relief” at Holufgaard. Odense, Denmark.
“Wet drawing techniques” at the IAPMA Paper Festival, Sarteano. Siena, Italy.
“Monotype transfer in papermaking” at RISD EHP. Rome, Italy.
2004  “High tension paper” at PaperWaspe. Wien, Austria.
“Intro Papermaking” at the Cornell Rome Program. Rome, Italy.
2002  “Paper shrinkage” at Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale. Maryland USA.
“High and low shrinkage paper, Wet drawing” at Cooper Union, NYC USA.
“Woodcut” at the Cornell Rome Program. Rome, Italy.
2001  “Paper relief” at Dieu Donné Papermill, NYC USA.
2000  “Paper relief” at XII IAPMA Congress, Sarteano. Siena, Italy.
1996  “Papermaking” – Summer Programat Cornell University, Ithaca USA.
1987  “Textures and creativity, Intaglio and Collograph” – La Scaletta Cultural Association, in collaboration with RISD E.H.P. Rome and Temple Rome Programs. Matera, Italy.

LECTURES

2021 – On-line lecture, “Incontro con Roberto Mannino”, Tecnologia della Carta, faculty Margherita Labbe, Brera Fine Art Academy. Milan, Italy.
2021- Roberto Mannino: Shrinkage as a Creative Practice – In collaboration with Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, and Naples Academy of Fine Arts; a series of lectures coordinated by Faculty Margherita Labbe (Paper Technology) and Angela Vinciguerra (Graphic Arts) supporting the project: Erbari del Matese: from land to fiber, to sheets, to objects.
2021- Roberto Mannino: Handmade Papers and Fibers in his Graphic works. In collaboration with Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, and Naples Academy of Fine Arts; a lecture coordinated by Faculty Angela Vinciguerra supporting the project: Erbari del Matese: from land to fiber, to sheets, to objects.
2018 Handmade paper and Printmaking methods”, REMAKE event, Museo della Carta e della Filigrana. Fabriano, Italy.
2014 “Streams”, video presentation at the IAPMA XV Congress Museo della Carta e della Filigrana. Fabriano, Italy.
2013  “Streams”, video presentation at the National Cabinet of Prints and Paper. Rome, Italy.
2011  Lecturer at Friends of Dard Hunter papermakers event, Frogmore Mill, H. Hempstead, UK.
2008 “Papermaking as an Art Form”, Temple University Tyler School of Arts. Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2006  “Paper Relief”  Steyrermuhl, Austria. IAPMA Congress.
2005  “Paper Relief”  Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta Canada – IAPMA Congress.
2002  Lecturer at Cooper Union, New York, NY USA.
2001 “Carta a Mano” Museo della Scienza. Naples, Italy.
2001 “Tra le carte”, Museo delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari, Rome, Italy.
2000  “Sculptures and textiles, “Temple University. Rome, Italy.
Paper Road”, XII IAPMA Congress, Abbazia di Spineto, Sarteano. Siena, Italy.
1998  “Papermaking as an Art form”, Rhode Island School of Design, EHP Rome, Italy.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2021 – NAHP North American hand papermakers – Member since 2021.
2000 – 2020  Handpapermaking Magazine HPM; membership. International Advisor since 2015.
1996 – 2021 IAPMA, International Association Papermaker and Paper Artists; membership.
Attending Congresses of: 1996 (Copenhagen), 2000 (Sarteano, Italy), 2002 (Geneva, Switzerland), 2005 (Banff, Alberta, Canada), 2006 (Steyrermuhl, Austria), 2007 (Oxford, UK), 2014 (Fabriano, Italy).
Dolphin Press & Print,​ Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore MD, USA.

AWARDS

2008 Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Arts MICA, Printmaking Dept., with Master Printer Brian Garner – Baltimore, MD USA.
1997 Socrates Scholarship in collaboration with Viterbo Fine Arts Academy. Limerick Regional College, Ireland.
1995 Artist in Residence, Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA USA.
1989 Scholarship from Rome Academy of Fine Arts, Printmaking; La Scaletta Cultural Center, Matera, Italy.

ON-LINE INTERVIEWS / WEBINARS

2021  – That Which is Malleable: Commemorating the Past and Chronicling the Future – Panel coordinators: Cynthia Thomson and David Charles Chioffi. Invited artists Saul Melman, Roberto Mannino, Melanie Mauro and Stephanie Slate. As part of the virtual North American Hand Papermakers Conference.
2021 In collaboration with YOCOCU (Youth in Conservation of Cultural Heritage): Conservative Restoration on Contemporary Cellulose Artifacts. Paper integrations.
2020 – Rome Art Week: Temple Rome Faculty Exhibition.
2020 Meetart, Alessandra Bartomioli, interview.
2020 cautivarte: Roberto Mannino, Master del Papermaking.