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Materials w/ Jessica Keiser - Toning paper with charcoal powder
AMaterials review from The Florence Academy of Art Alumni featured on The FAA Collective PatreonToday it’s all about Charcoal!We had the pleasure of receiving our brand new Materials review directly from the UK, by FAA graduateJessica Keiser.Jessica was always intensely interested in art. Although she was a philosophy major in college, she eventually found her way back to the canvas, and, through much searching, concluded her fine arts studies ...
‘Jess’ by Phoebe Hicks
This week’s Spotlight on Art features Jess by FAA graduate Phoebe Hicks.We are excited to explore in depth the work of Phoebe Hicks. Phoebe graduated from the FAA Painting Program in 2012, and has returned to her native UK to work on her private commissions.We hope you enjoy reading about her portrait drawing process!“This is Jess, a best friend, who I first met in whilst studying in Florence as a teenager, drawn in my little studio space at ...
The Process w/ Daniel Graves - Salomé’s Rue
An installment in the Art Process related content featured on The FAA CollectiveDear Patrons,Today the FAA opens its doors after a winter break, revived and ready to inspire you and contribute to your artistic endeavours this coming year. We have decided to release one of our most cherished videos featuring FAA Founder and Director,Daniel Graves. Filmed in Daniel’s private studio in Florence, wewatch him while painting, Salomé’s Rue, to lear...
It's Drawing Season!
Happy New Year!2022 has begun and it’s the start ofDrawing Season at The FAA Collective!We have very special content coming your way to celebrate the New Year, and we begin by releasing one of our favouriteArt History Lecturesfor free."What is drawing?" Was originally recorded at the FAA Florence campus last year, and we believe it makes the perfect intro to all of our drawing themed content!Click here for to view the Full Art History L...
The FAA Collective Blooper Reel 2019-2020
Merry Christmas Everyone!Welcome to all of our new subscribers and a big thanks to those of you who have been following us since the beginning of The FAA Collective on Patreon. We are so grateful for your support!As a small token of our appreciation, this year we have prepared for you all.. Our first Blooper reel!We had a lot of fun putting together this selection of behind the scenes takes that didn’t make it into the original videos.Between 2...
FAA Today
The Florence Academy of Art celebrates 30 years of excellence with an online exhibition and new website!Our 30th year is crowned by reaching a total of 500 graduates from our full time painting and sculpture programs. Over 100 are featured in this online exhibition, FAA Today. The breadth of style, subject and media is tribute to our promise to each student to teach them the skills to be able to render anything they see or can imagine.The new web...
'Hope' by Jana Büttner
This week’s Spotlight on Art features Hoper by Jana Büttner, Graduate in residence at the Florence Academy of Art.Every person has a different experience viewing a piece of art; some experience visual pleasure - others see themselves, creating an instant connection with the work. Jana Büttner strives to encompass all this in her sculpture, using the human figure as a vehicle to express herself.Jana’s sculpture Hope won the Tiranti Prize in ...
Materials w/ Valentina Zlatarova - Plaster
A Materials review from The Florence Academy of Art Alumni featured on The FAA Collective PatreonDear Patrons,We hope you have been enjoying all of our Sculpture themed content so far!Today it’s all about plaster. In this video featuring FAA alumna, Valentina Zlatarova, we learn about this essential material to the sculptor’s craft, and how it became one of Valentina's preferred mediums. This video shows fellow sculptors and sculptor enth...
Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - The Nude Pt. 3 - Desire
An Installment in theArt Historyrelated content on The FAA Collective PatreonDear Patrons,Thank you for your support! This week we are excited to share with you the third and final art history lecture in a three–part series on artistic depictions of nudes in drawings, paintings, and sculptures,The Nude Pt. 3 – Desire. This lecture byTom Richards,Assistant Director ofThe Florence Academy of Art,focuses on they psychology of artwork depicting t...
‘The Life size Écorché’ by Marusia Nita
Dear Patrons,Today we are pleased to share with you the story behind one of the pieces of The Florence Academy of Art’s permanent collection, The Life size Écorché by Marusia Nita.We hope you enjoy reading Marusia's own words about this fascinating project!Between 2015 and 2016, I sculpted a life size skeleton and écorché.The project seemed at the time a necessary step in my gaining an understanding of the human body from a scientific p...
Techniques w/ Eran Webber - Constructing the Eye
An installment in the Technique related content featured on The FAA Collective PatreonDear Patrons,Last year we produced one of our favorite FAA Collective videos with Director of the summer Figurative Sculpture workshop,Eran Webber, in which Eran explains how to sculpt the mouth in clay. This year, Eran is back with a brand new demo!Filmed in class at the FAA Florence campus during a morning demo for summer sculpture students, Eran demonstrates ...
Discovering The Architecture Of The Human Body: Interview With Angèlica Arvylàs Torner
Dear Patrons,Thank you for your support! We are very happy to share with you a recent interview with alumna ofThe Florence Academy of Art,Spanish artistAngèlica Arvylàs,that was published recently inCreate! Magazine.In this interview Angèlica touches on the major inspirations behind her sculptures and why she works figuratively. She also speaks about her educational background, including her time studying at FAA, mentioning how her studies in ...
Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - The Nude Pt. 2 - Energy
An Installment in theArt Historyrelated content on The FAA Collective PatreonDear Patrons,Thank you for your support! This week we are excited to present you with a new art history lecture, the second in a three-part series on The Nude with Tom Richards, Assistant Director ofThe Florence Academy of Art. While the first lecture in the series focused on how the nude can and has been used to emotionally influence the viewer, in this lecture, origina...
‘Red Star’ by Maudie Brady
This week’s Spotlight on Art features Red Star by Maudie Brady, Director of Anatomy and Ecorché at the Florence Academy of Art.It is with great pleasure that we talk about an immensely talented sculptor in this week’s Spotlight on Art: Maudie Brady. After a successful career sculpting figures for films, Maudie decided to pursue a career in fine arts. After completing the Sculpture Program at FAA, she is now the Director of Anatomy and Ecorch...
Books w/ Poppy Field - Bronze 2012 Exhibition Catalogue
Dear Patrons,Today’s Book Review comes from UK sculptor, Poppy Field, a graduate of the FAA Sculpture Program, and former Art History lecturer and instructor of Art Business, at FAA. Poppy also graduated fromLondon’s Courtauld Institute of Art where she studied Art History. Shehasselected the exhibition catalogue, ‘Bronze 2012”, produced by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, that features an introduction by the exhibition’s curator,Davi...
‘Before the Bath’ by Carla Paine
This weeks’s Spotlight on Art features Before the Bath by FAA Graduate Carla Paine.Dear Patrons,Thank you for your continued support, we hope you have been enjoying our Sculpture season content thus far! This week we would like to present you with an essay by Carla Paine about one of her latest works: Before the Bath.This artwork was part of the FAA exhibition Letting Us In.Enjoy!Before the Bath is a painting of light and quiet movement.I wante...
'Painting 365 Sunrises' a project by Daniela Astone
This week we are excited to present you with a short video featuring Daniela Astone, Director of the Intermediate Program at The Florence Academy of Art.Artist and educator, Daniela Astone paints what is outside her door each morning during lockdown. On October 8th 2020, Daniela began to escape into the dawn of each new day, to rediscover the power of imagination. In her own words, "Every big change begins with knowing how to imagine it."...
FACE 2021 Competition Winners
Dear Patrons,Thank you for your support!Each yearThe Society of Portrait Sculptors, a representative body of professional sculptors committed to making portrait and figurative sculpture accessible to a wider public, organizes an annual open exhibition, FACE. We are proud to share that several faculty members, alumni, and current students ofThe Florence Academy of Arthave works in this year’s exhibition, and received commendations and prizes for...
Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - The Nude Pt. 1 - Pathos
An Installment in theArt Historyrelated content on The FAA Collective PatreonDear Patrons,This week we are excited to present you with a new art history lecture, the first in a three-part series on The Nude withTom Richards, Assistant Director ofThe Florence Academy of Art.In this series we will journey through drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures that depict the nude form and delve deeply into their emotional, psychological, and energetic...
‘La Marionetta’ by Robert Bodem
This weeks’s Spotlight on Art features La Marionetta by Former Director of Sculpture at FAA Rob Bodem.La Marionetta was sculpted during my tenure as Director of the sculpture program at the FAA at my studio on Via Luna.As a figurative sculptor looking to always create unique works, the concept of a marionette sprung from the fascination of what possibilities there would be in poses/gestures where the subject is not in control of what is occurri...
Tools w/ Jana Büttner - Create your own Loop Tool
A Tool review from FAA Graduate in Residence featured on The FAA Collective PatreonJana Büttner graduated from the Sculpture program in 2020, and was invited to continue for a fourth year as Graduate in Residence. We have featured Jana’s beautiful work in previous posts, and during the past year, filmed her talking about her favorite sculpture tools: some are useful for blocking in large masses, others help her capture the smallest details. We...
Artistic Challenge #2 - WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!
Today we are happy to announce the winner of our second Artistic Challenge! We would like to thank you all for submitting so many beautiful artworks.The criteria for judging this year’s landscape challenge included among other things the capacity of the artists to convey the breadth of a landscape within the visual frame of the canvas or panel, along with the capacity to tell the whole story of the view in front of them. Composition and design ...
A Day at the Foundry w/ Mitch Shea
They say, sculpture is born in clay, dies in plaster and is reborn in bronze.As we have chosen to dedicate Fall to the subject of Sculpture,we are particularly excited to bring to you this video, with its exploration ofthe beauty and complexity of casting sculpture in bronze, andthe rebirth of Mitch Shea’sextraordinary work, River God.Inside a foundry near Florence, we watch the technical process that is the ancient technique of bronze casting,...
Amit Karo named 2022 Sculpture Program Graduate in Residence
Dear Patrons,Thank you for your support!One of the advantages of being a patron of The FAA Collective is learning about new and exciting projects, exhibitions, positions, and accolades of the artists in our FAA Community!AtThe Florence Academy of Artthere is a tradition of recent and new graduates of our full-time certificate programs being offered a position as a Graduate in Residence (formerly known as the “Fourth Year Prize”). These studen...
Art History Lecture w/ Tom Richards - Sculpture in Rome
An Installment in theArt Historyrelated content on The FAA Collective PatreonDear Patrons,Thank you for your continued support! As part ofThe FAA Collective’sSculpture Seasonfeaturing an array of content surrounding the art form of sculpture, we would like to present you with a new art history lecture byTom Richards, theFlorence Academy of Art’s Assistant Director and resident Art Historian, to kick off this seasonal lecture series!Rome, a ci...
It's Sculpture Season!
Dear Patrons,Today we have the pleasure to announce the start ofSculpture Season at The FAA Collective!We have special content coming your way this fall - all sculpture themed.Over the next couple months, we will be sharing with you: Art History Lectures given by the Florence Academy’s Assistant Director, resident Art Historian and painter, Tom Richards, at the FAA Florence campus. Lots of video content! Interviews, technical demonstrations and...
'Golden Grove' by Rachel Personett
This weeks’s Spotlight on Art features Golden Grove by FAA Graduate Rachel Personett.Rachel is an exceptionally gifted painter of landscapes, and travels the globe in search of locations to paint. We are delighted to share with you Rachel’s own words of her experience painting Golden Grove, a work that is also part of FAA online exhibition ‘Letting us In’."Golden Grove was created September 19th 2020 in Breckenridge, Colorado.My inspi...
Forever Landscape - The Art of Nelson White
Our landscape season would not be complete without a mention and small retrospective of the work of American painter, Nelson White.Nelson H. White,Bagno La Salute Viareggio #2,Oil on panel12 x 20 in.Feb. 24, 2008Nelson is legendary amongst FAA students and alumni for his decades-long support of the academy, and a continuous presence as a student each academic year. We, at The Florence Academy of Art, appreciate and admire Nelson for many reasons:...
Artistic Challenge #2 - Reminder
Dear Patrons,We hope you are enjoying your summer and all the landscape themed content we have released so far!We love the wonderful artworks we are receiving for our second Artistic Challenge: Landscape painting, and want to remind you that the submission deadline for is September 5th.Be sure to send a high resolution jpg of your artworks to social@florenceacademyofart to win an exclusive Art Print!Good luck and “Buon Lavoro!”
Interview with Moses Hamborg
Dear Patrons,This week we are delighted to share with you an interview with FAA Alum Moses Hamborg.Graduate of the Painting Program, Moses was recently profiled in the art and culture magazine Frontrunner. Touching on his upbringing, academic training, inspirations, and goals, this interview by Shana Meth Mason offers a complete picture of the painter, best known for his portraits.Moses HamborgAslanOil on jute30 x 40 in.2021“I have massive resp...
