Welcome to my digital art studio! Thank you so much for stopping by. My name is Mariateresa Aiello. My friends call me Miti. I am an artist, architect/designer, university professor (architecture/design, history of architecture and urban design, history of art, drawing and rendering and non-western traditions), poet and, sometimes, a deejay. I love coffee shops, collect pens and my tastes in life, as in music, are eclectic. The best way to describe this blog is that it represents a curated version of my life, filtering what I see, read, write, think about, do, listen to….and experiment with. Here is a collection of mental bookmarks and fragments of life, a catalyst for creative pursuit and occasional intellectual discourse.
These are my field notes. You can search my portfolio of work through the tabs on top of the page (1999-2009) and by clicking through the Categories side-bar in the Home section (for work since 2009, when SketchBloom was started).
I was born in Milano, where I spent half of my eighteen years in Italy. The other nine were spent in the South, in Calabria, in a small, rugged town by the Ionian Sea inhabited by strong, passionate people. I am a product of deep northern and southern Italy: my mother is from Veneto, what once was the province of The Serenissima Republic of Venice and my father is a warm Calabrese. My high school was a Linguistic Lycaeum and my formative ‘ingredients’ were languages, comparative literature and poetry, art, philosophy. Mine was an education steeped in the humanities. I collect quotes and i like this one: ‘ Italians are sea-faring people, a nation made of poets, artists, heroes, saints, thinkers, scientists, wanderers.’
From Italy to North Dakota? How is this possible? For all those who have asked me this question-and will do so in the future- here is the spiel. I will just refer you to this page from now on, as it’s hard to sound fresh when I heard myself telling the story for the nth time :). SO here it is…
I came in the U.S as a foreign exchange student at sixteen, and lived a year in tiny Breckenridge, Minnesota. I finished my high school degree in Italy (we have a five-year high school ’cause we are smarter) and returned to North Dakota at nineteen to study Architecture and Art.
So…you are Italian and studied Architecture and Art in North Dakota? What can I say, I like to do things differently. I enrolled in the Architecture program at North Dakota State University, in Fargo, still managing to take lots of Literature and Poetry classes. After earning my BARCH, I stuck around for a degree in Fine Arts. I live in sunny San Diego, California, where I have worked for few years in Architecture and Academia and often visit Italy and Latin American countries . My year of magical realism was 2006-07 when I went back to Italy, to Firenze, for a Master in Architecture and Urban Design with Syracuse University.
Please let me know if you have any questions by submitting a comment or emailing me (below). I love to read your comments: they let me know you stopped by! Share my site with other creatives and THANK YOU for the support!
email : sketchbloom [at] gmail [dot] com
I am also founder of ArchistDesign Studio (in the works!), a design consulting company. There you can find my portfolio of architecture work, projects and CV.
Thank you so much for visiting!
Mitica,
Congrats for your work!!!! I know how much you love sharing…wish you the best.
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Miti – it looks fantastic!! can’t wait to check it all out! great job!
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Miti, this looks really great! Congratulations!
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Miti! Sorry I missed you in San Diego; the schedule was very hectic. Thanks for sharing your things here! You’re amazing!!
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Hey, no worries, I know how it is when visiting San Diego, there is so much goodness …andlittle time! I am so happy we can still keep in touch and to find you here!
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Ciao!
I was thinking about you, and I suddenly found your beautiful works. Good luck, hugs from your Magical Thinking Town. =)
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Grazie:)
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Hi Miti,
Wow! I am sorry I didn’t see your link earlier!
Great work! and a lot of it!
Great class on ancient architecture! I will never
forget what I learned!
Regards~
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Daniel I am so happy you enjoyed the history class! It was great to see you implementing some elements from ancient Minoan architecture in your studio project! That just makes a professor proud! I always feel like there isn’t enough time to cover all the rich history in our curriculum, but I am glad there are some things you will never forget and that maybe you can explore more in depth in the future! Thank you for the kind words and a Happy New Year!
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MITICA…..è dir poco.
Sono orgogliosa di te.
a buon intenditrice poche parole….sai cosa penso.
è semplicemente fantastico quello e come lo fai.
Continua così.
Van
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Grazie Van! Non sai quanto vogliano dire le tue parole…
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Hi again Miti,
We have booked a trip to England – April 10 to the 18th.
We are also going to visit France coast etc.
I was just wondering if there was a way to get credit with New School some how? Research etc.
Kind Regards~
P.S. I enjoyed your site again this morning…
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Miti,
“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
Thanks for sharing the amazing work, it is just Amazing !!!
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I randomly stumbled upon your blog when I was looking for pictures of typewriter font to draw from. Strange, huh?
Just wanted to let you know that I really like your blog and all your work. I’ll definitely be checking back often!
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Those tags must be working;) I am so glad to have found a new blogger-friend, please visit anytime…wish I could serve some digital coffee to welcome you! Thank you so much for the kind words!
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beautiful work, love your perspective. i am honored to be included here.
very best
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well,
just landed here by “chance” and gather, this most be a woman with a rich mind and rich heart and apparently a very good left hand.
cheers
the coffee dramatist
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not “most”, but must
🙂
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Thank you so much for the kind words, coffee dramatist! but I am not left handed;)…I just rotated my right hand for composition’s sake!
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Hey miti,
magical blog…….. inspiring…. well hope you keep the dialogue on….
elsee
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Dear Elsee thank you for the kindest words…It encourages in my many endeavors!
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Hi, nice to meet you !
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I enjoyed your poem tonight, I hope to see you at the next reading!
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Thank you so much for checking my work! Hope to see you at the next poetry reading! Was so nice meeting you!
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Wow. What a fantastic blog. Your photos and art work are so beautiful. Thank you for sharing your talents with the world and opening my eyes through anothers. Life is full of setbacks. Success is determined by how you handle setbacks. ~
Lululemon.
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Ciao Miti,
qui ed ora baciati dal sole terrone ci stavamo chiedendo: ma …ste Miti..è arrivata o no? Ancora nessuna notizia…cattivona…tuo padre implora anche solo un breve cenno.
viva obama.
ciao dal tuo amico di bergamo !!!!!
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Ciao Giovanni-John 🙂 avevo detto a mia mamma che ero arrivata ! Cmq mi sono messa in contatto con Gio-Pesca aka Il Bucaniere 😉 …mi fa piacere vederti qui! E Viva Obama 🙂
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This is great Miti! Feels like a perfect online vacation: museum, coffee shop, new perspectives, love, happiness… 🙂
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Thank you Daniela for finding me here…this is my little bohemian corner for art and poetry and travel 🙂
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Dear Miti,
I recently stumbled across your blog and like it.
I would like to know if there is any possibility to buy a poster of your drawing of the Flânuer? My girlfriend loves that drawing and I have been looking all over for a poster of your drawing, but without luck.
Hope you can help
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Hello Michael! So happy you like my flâneur!
email me sketchbloom@gmail.com, would be happy to help. One of my students in Puebla, Mexico, told me they saw my flâneur drawing on a T-shirt somewhere in Latin America… this all unbeknownst to me, but I will take it as a compliment!
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Thank you so much Miti,
I have send you an email and hope that you have received it 🙂
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Your teapot print is here —. Send me your address and I’ll pop it in the mail. Thanks!
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