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End of Year Graduation and Awards Ceremony

The End of Year Graduation and Awards Ceremony takes place in June in the gardens of the Budini Gattai Palace in central Florence. Graduating students from our programs in Florence and Mölndal receive certificates of completion, and prizes are awarded to the best drawings, paintings, and sculpture of the year.

During the ceremony we announce the teaching staff for the upcoming academic year, as well as the names of recipients of financial aid awards and merit scholarships.

In June 2011, 27 students graduated from the Painting Program and 4 from the Sculpture Program. Financial aid and merit scholarships for a total of $ 178,000.00 were awarded to 34 second and third year students returning for the 2011/12 academic year.



View of Palazzo Budini Gattai



View of the End of Year Graduation and Awards Ceremony




Preparing for opening remarks, Daniel Graves, founder and Director




We say good-bye to Sean Forester, alumnus and Director of Art History and Humanities. Sean received a gold Fiorino for his important contribution to the students at The Florence Academy of Art.




We say good-bye to Hunter Eddy, alumnus and co-Director of Painting. Hunter received a gold Fiorino for his important contribution to the students at The Florence Academy of Art.




Bernard Schmidt receives his award for best cast drawing in the Intermediate Program from Susan Tintori; looking on Daniel Graves and Jordan Sokol, Director of the Intermediate program




Richard Greathouse, winner of the Best Painting of the Year of the Florence studio (to view, click on FAA News on our Homepage)



Daniel Graves and Program Directors Robert Bodem (Sculpture), Simona Dolci (Intensive Drawing), Leo Mancini-Hresko (Drawing, Sculpture Program), and Alicia Ponzio (Anatomy & Ecorché)



Administrative staff (left to right) Rosemary Galli, Birgitta Holmström (Sweden), Anki Eriksson Graves (Board member), Suzy Fiddy and Tasha Walle



We say good-bye to Alicia Ponzio, alumnus and Director of Anatomy and Ecorché. Alicia received a gold Fiorino for her important contribution to the students at The Florence Academy of Art.



Jordan Zoscak receives his award for best figure drawing in the Intensive Drawing Program from Daniel Graves; looking on, Simona Dolci, Director of the Intensive Drawing Program



Tanvi Pathare receives her award for best figure painting in the Intermediate Program from Jordan Sokol, Director



Zacheriah Kramer, graduate
of the Florence Academy in Sweden,
winner of the Best Painting of the
Year of Florence and Sweden, for his
work, “Feeding Goldfish” (to view,
click on FAA News on our Homepage)


The graduating class of 2011, faculty and administration (left to right): first row: Eran Webber, Gala Gilan, Rosemary Galli, Florence Remy de Campeau, Ingerlise Grothe, Anne Louise Höy Blicher Winther, Elvira Olsén, Leigh Kaplan, Kathryn Cardenas, Basilio De San Juan Guerrero, Richard Greathouse, Christopher Sharpe, Alicia Ponzio, Simona Dolci, Maureen Hyde; second row: Edson Fernando Menezes da Silva Filho, Philippa Carter, Jennifer Gennari, Laura Postle, Eleanor Wright, Shay Harris, Robert Bodem, Jura Bedic; third row: Dong Lee, Zacheriah Kramer, Cassander Straumsgaard, Sean Forester, Leo Mancini-Hresko; fourth row: Nicholas Enevoldsen, Benjamin Burnham, Susan Tintori, Daniel Graves, Jordan Sokol


The Anatomy and Ecorché faculty, Richard
Greathouse (assistant instructor), Alicia Ponzio, current Director in Florence, Per Elof Ricklund, current Director in Sweden and Director in Florence for the 2011-12 academic year

Dana Zaltzman (right), painting student and winner of a Tintori Family Scholarship, with Susan Tintori

Sculpture students Konstantin Zingerman,
Bayasgalan Batmagnai, Christopher Sharpe, and Marusia Nita



 


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