A Materials review from The Florence Academy of Art Alumni featured on The FAA Collective Patreon
Today it’s all about Charcoal!
We had the pleasure of receiving our brand new Materials review directly from the UK, by FAA graduate Jessica Keiser.
Jessica was always intensely interested in art. Although she was a philosophy major in college, she eventually found her...
2022-01-25 11:31:00 +0000 UTC
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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 whil...
2022-01-18 13:30:59 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Art Process related content featured on The FAA Collective
Dear 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 Flore...
2022-01-10 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Happy New Year!
2022 has begun and it’s the start of Drawing 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 favourite Art History Lectures for 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!
2022-01-02 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2021-12-26 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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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 t...
2021-12-21 15:00:29 +0000 UTC
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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<...
2021-12-17 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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A Materials review from The Florence Academy of Art Alumni featured on The FAA Collective Patreon
Dear 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 vide...
2021-12-09 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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An Installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective Patreon
Dear 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 by Tom Richards, Assistant Director o...
2021-12-03 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2021-11-25 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Technique related content featured on The FAA Collective Patreon
Dear 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...
2021-11-18 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support! We are very happy to share with you a recent interview with alumna of The Florence Academy of Art, Spanish artist Angèlica Arvylàs, that was published recently in Create! 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, ...
2021-11-09 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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An Installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective Patreon
Dear 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 of The Florence Academy of Art. While the first lecture in the series focused on how the nude can and has been used to e...
2021-11-03 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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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 Anat...
2021-10-28 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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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 from London’s Courtauld Institute of Art where she studied Art History. She has selected the exhibition catalogue, ‘Bronze 2012”, produced by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, that features an introduction by the exhibitio...
2021-10-23 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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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 2021-10-17 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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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." A ...
2021-10-14 15:23:49 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support!
Each year The 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 of The Florence Academy of Art have works in this year’s exhibition, and receive...
2021-10-09 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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An Installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective Patreon
Dear 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 with Tom Richards, Assistant Director of The Florence Academy of Art.
In this series we will journey through drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures that depict the n...
2021-10-03 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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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...
2021-09-28 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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A Tool review from FAA Graduate in Residence featured on The FAA Collective Patreon
Jana 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 ...
2021-09-24 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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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 are fundamental to t...
2021-09-19 14:23:44 +0000 UTC
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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 of the beauty and complexity of casting sculpture in bronze, and the rebirth of Mitch Shea’s extraordinary work, River God.
Inside a foundry near Florence, we watch the technical process that is the...
2021-09-16 14:45:52 +0000 UTC
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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!
At The Florence Academy of Art there 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...
2021-09-07 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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An Installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective Patreon
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your continued support! As part of The FAA Collective’s Sculpture Season featuring an array of content surrounding the art form of sculpture, we would like to present you with a new art history lecture by Tom Richards, the Florence Academy of Art’s Assistan...
2021-09-03 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons,
Today we have the pleasure to announce the start of Sculpture 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.
- ...
2021-09-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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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 2021-08-27 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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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 panel
12 x 20 in.
Feb. 24, 2008
Nelson is legendary amongst FAA students and alumni for his decades-long support of the ac...
2021-08-18 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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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 sub...
2021-08-15 16:01:04 +0000 UTC
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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.
2021-08-03 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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