Deborah Stachowic's Italy Arts Foundation Project

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Welcome!  Benvenuto!

We invite you to click to the new website, Italy Art Workshops & Cultural Center for information about Deborah Stachowic's Italy Arts Foundation Project which she is now working on establishing.... 

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