Designed to enhance creativity and artistic achievement, this dynamic, two-year program is ideal for artists, students who wish to have a career in the arts, post BFA study, international students, and arts educators.
The Studio Art Intensive serves to enhance evolving technique, clarify artistic direction, and define areas of concentration. Students will develop a professional portfolio, be mentored by a working artist, experience the arts scene in New York City, and will culminate their study with a solo exhibition and catalogue.
Curriculum
Working closely with an advisor, students select an area of concentration from painting, sculpture, printmaking or new media. A personalized studio curriculum is developed and may include art theory, critical thinking, or philosophy, in addition to studio-based classes.
Environment
The National Academy School is located in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood, across Central Park on Museum Mile. The Academy Museum becomes part of the learning experience and includes free access to inspiring exhibitions, behind the scenes tours with curators, art talks, lectures, and panel discussions. New York City’s vibrant arts community is available for museum and gallery visits, and special invitations to meet artists in their studios. Small classes and individual attention ensure an intimate and creative learning environment. Private studio space is available for special projects.
Exhibition
At the conclusion of two years of study each student will be given a solo exhibition in the Academy School’s newly designed gallery with easy public access. An opening reception and printed catalogue will accompany your exhibition.
APPLICATION
Deadline has been extended! Applications are accepted in mid-May for the fall semester, and mid-October for the winter semester. Along with a completed application, each student is asked for an artist statement and a representational portfolio. A personal interview will be conducted for each prospective student.
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TUITION
$13,000.00 per year
Installment plan and scholarships available
Maurizio Pellegrin Director, National Academy School
An artist of international reputation and a dedicated arts educator, Pellegrin holds a Master’s Degree in Art History, Ca' Foscari University in Venice. He studied sociology at New School University, eastern philosophy at New York University, New York, sculpture and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice and holds the equivalent of the American MFA in Studio Art.
Mr. Pellegrin directed the Venice Program Master of Art at New York University and taught Phenomenology of the Arts and Advanced Studio at Teachers College Columbia University, where he was also the senior curator of the gallery. In addition, he has taught Modern Design and Architecture at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
Pellegrin counts more than 150 solo and more than 400 group exhibitions in major museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Museum Of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy.
Faculty
The Academy’s faculty is composed of national and international professional artist-teachers. The Academy School’s curriculum reflects this dynamic with educational offerings that are engaging, practical, and relate to the challenges of working as an artist today.
About the National Academy
Throughout its storied history, the National Academy has followed a simple yet powerful mission: to promote the fine arts in America through exhibition and education. Founded in 1825, the National Academy is the only institution of its kind that integrates a museum, art school, and association of artists and architects – the National Academicians.
Academy Museum
Illuminating canonical figures as well as those deserving of reappraisal, the museum widens the lens through which American art is viewed and appreciated. Rotating exhibitions include 19, 20 and 21 century art and architecture, an Annual Exhibition, a reflection of contemporary American culture, and selections from the permanent collection. Exhibitions are supported with lectures, symposia, and panel discussions that engage the public with the Academy’s living artistic legacy.
National Academicians
Elected by their peers, the National Academicians’ diploma presentations, given upon induction, shape the academy’s unique and significant permanent collection, creating a vibrant, ever-evolving institution where traditions are celebrated and new visions embraced.
Academy School
The first session of the Academy School commenced on November 15, 1826, with two academicians and twenty students sketching by candlelight. A proudly progressive institution, the Academy School was the first of its kind to accept women students and offer women’s life drawing classes. The school rapidly grew in stature and reputation, attracting students such as Winslow Homer, George Inness, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning.
Today the Academy School continues to offer studio-based study in an intimate, creative environment, supporting the artistic journey of each student.
To learn more about the Studio Art Intensive and tour the school’s studios and galleries, contact:
Lydia Winters
School Administrator
212-996-1908 x 237
