Class Commitment and Studio Environment


The complete program of study is three years, although students may continue for a fourth year of specialization. The student's class commitment includes 36 hours per week of full instruction; each student receives one critique in the morning and one critique in the afternoon from the course instructors. Students may also attend additional life drawing classes in the evenings. Regular lectures are conducted in Art History and Anatomy, while special lectures include Historic Methods and Materials, and technical demonstrations on paint grinding, the properties of individual pigments, oils and varnishes and canvas preparation. More so, our instructors work in studios on school premises allowing students to benefit not only from daily direct instruction and critique, but from watching the artist at work. This relationship, developed over many hours spent together in the studio is significant to the general atmosphere of the studio, and fundamental to the student's artistic development.

Students work under north facing light. Movable partitions divide the spaces into separate studios (one to four person occupancy), providing each student semi-private work space. The unique studio environment, surrounded by the history and treasures of Florence and Gothenburg, produce an inspiring combination for the painter's experience abroad.