Community “Rome has Michelangelo. We have the mountain.” Welcome to the 336th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, Brenda Zlamany returns to her ancestral village near the Pollino National Park in Italy, where she paints in an old sausage factory and grows her own olives. (Fun fact: I walked by her 2016 "Portrait of Yale's First Seven Women PhDs" on many late nights as a student in the Sterling Memorial Library.) Want to take part? Check out our  submission guidelines  and share a bit about your studio with us through  this form ! All mediums and workspaces are welcome, including your home studio. Brenda Zlamany , Calabria, Italy How long have you been working in this space? Since April 2024 — but also for 45 years. The first time I saw this village I was a teenager on my junior year abroad at Tyler School of Art in Rome.…