Bring Skill Based Art to Public Schools

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Help! - Bring Skill Based Art to Public Schools!!

Greater amounts are of course welcome, but even a $1 donation will help the DVI Kickstarter come up with greater frequency within Kickstarter Searches. If even a small portion of our subscribers were to donate $1 we would easily fund this Kickstarter campaign. We need your help. The Da Vinci Initiative has started a major fundraising campaign through Kickstarter to bring skill-based training in the visual arts to public schools K-12. Teaching realist based art skills such as those implemented by Da Vinci and Michelangelo not only aligns with current educational research that other subjects currently embrace, but it also enhances the number of choices students can make when creating their own work. To view the Kickstarter project and video or to donate, click here. The Da Vinci Initiative is officially endorsed by the Washington Art Education Association.

To view the Kickstarter project and video or to donate, click here.

Fun fact: Both alumni Teresa Oaxaca and Nancy Hines are Da Vinci Initiative Ambassadors! More about what they are doing for the DVI coming up... stay tuned!

The Uncanny

AAA alumna Teresa Oaxaca is showing in the S.R. Brennen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with Katherine Stone and David Gluck. Katherine and David both studied at M. John Angel’s school in Canada. All three of these artists are brilliant, and we highly recommend looking at the show’s on-line catalogue.

http://www.theuncannyexhibition.com/gallery-2

 

Teresa Oaxaca in her studio
www.teresaoaxaca.com

 

 

Katherine Stone - The Head of Sorrow
www.katestoneart.com

 

David Gluck - The Beggar King
www.davidgluckart.com

Stazzema Show

La signorina Nera Simi (1890 – 1987) was the daughter of Filadelfo Simi, one of the great 19th-century Italian Realist painters. La signorina took over her father’s studio in 1923 and developed it into the only school in the western world that taught and specialised in representational painting.

The Simi family originated in Stazzema, a mountainous area near the marble quarries of Cararra, and, this year, the town of Stazzema commemorated her achievement by naming a town square after her and creating a show of her alumni’s work. The show ran from July 12th to August 20th, 2014, and was a great success, with over 300 people at the opening and an average daily count of 20 visitors.

Past students range from the classes of the 1950s to the classes of the 1980s: Antonio Ciccone, Nelson White, Fernando Bernardini, M. John Angel, Lance Bressow, Daniel Graves, Ben Long, Joke Frima and Simona Dolci, to name only a few.

An outline biography of Nerina Simi can be seen here: http://www.filadelfosimi.it/biografia/nera_simi.htm

MJA in the new square dedicated to la signorina Simi.

Stazzema show opening

Stazzema show opening

Stazzema show opening

Academy Visits

Contemporary realist painters Robert Liberace and Juliette Aristides visited the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, with their students.  Jeffrey Larson also recently visited the school.

 

 

MJA & Robert Liberace

http://www.robertliberace.com/stillLife/gallery.htm

 

 

Robert Liberace's class visit

http://www.robertliberace.com/stillLife/gallery.htm

 

 

Juliette Aristides

http://www.aristidesatelier.com/

 

 

Jeffrey Larson

http://jeffreytlarson.com/

Annigoni

In 2010, the city of Florence celebrated the centenary of Annigoni’s birth. The Angel Academy of Art, Florence, was asked to start the celebrations by mounting a show of students’ and instructors’ works in the Villa Bardini, which houses the Annigoni Museum. In addition, maestro M. John Angel was commissioned to paint a portrait of Annigoni, which now hangs in the Villa Peyron Museum, a museum that honours expatriates like Angel who have contributed to the ongoing traditions of Florence.

M.John Angel: il maestro Annigoni, 1954oil on canvas80 x 55 cm

The Florentine drummers at the Angel Academy's 2010 Villa Bardini show

At Annigoni's grave in San Miniato del Monte for the 2010 Centenary of the maestro's birth. Left to right: Antonio Ciccone, Benedetto Annigoni, M. John Angel, Nelson White (standing to the right of the lady in white) and signora Rosella Annigoni (dressed in light green).

MJA and Benedetto Annigoni, during a 2012 visit to the academy.


2010 Villa Bardini show
 

Outside the show, in the Bardini grounds
 
Villa Bardini show catalogue

14th Annual ARC Scholarship Competition

Congratulations to 1st-place winners Chapman John Hamborg, Eleni Giannapoulou, Savannah Cuff & 3rd-place winner Landon Harris Clay in the 14th Annual Art Renewal Center Scholarship Competition!

 

 

Shipwrecked by Chapman Hamborg

 

 

Figure Study by Eleni Giannopoulou

 

 

 

Casus, Casus, 4th Declension by Landon Clay

 

 

 

 

Blue Teapot with Oranges by Savannah Cuff

 

 

Graduate updates

AAA alumna Teresa Oaxaca was recently profiled in Fine Art Connoisseur magazine.

Fine Art Connoisseur magazine

AAA alumni Hayley Brown, Francis O'Toole, Nancy Fletcher and Travis Seymour exhibited their artwork in the 126th juried exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London.  Francis received the L. Cornellissen & Son award and Travis received the Alan Gourley Memorial prize.

Hayley Brown "Homage to Chardin"

Hayley Brown

Francis O'Toole

Nancy Fletcher "Berliquet Wine"

Nancy Fletcher "High Sheriff of Lincolnshire - John William Lockwood"

Travis Seymour "Naval Oranges"

Travis Seymour "Mary Ellen in Red"

Francis O'Toole "Rae"

AAA alumnus Rusudana Glonty won third prize in the Artists & Illustrators 2013 Artists of the Year competition.

Artists & Illustrators magazine

The work of AAA alumnus Brian MacNeil was featured in American Art Collector Magazine. Following this article, an exhibition of his work was hosted by the Royal Gallery in Providence, RI, where Brian also gave a painting demonstration.

Brian MacNeil "Lakeville II"

Brian MacNeil