Honoring one’s origins and realizing with one’s own eyes, and with one’s heart, that the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli Institute, where mosaicists have been trained for a hundred years in his grandfather’s native town, led Dr. David Zavagno to leave his hometown in the U.S. for Spilimbergo, Italy.

Accompanied by his wife, Denise, and a couple of friends from Genoa, Dr. Zavagno visited the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli in May. His arrival was expected, preceded by an extensive correspondence in which Dr. Zavagno had expressed his desire to leave Cleveland to join the festivities that celebrate the school, in its 100th year, known from a distance through family stories. The president of the school, Stefano Lovison, and the director, Gian Piero Brovedani, awaited their guests.