An installment in The Process related content featured on The FAA Collective Patreon
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support! We would also like to take the time to warmly welcome our new patrons to The FAA Collective Community! This week we are very excited to present you with the third and final installment to The Process w/ Vitaliy Shtanko - Underpainting Series where we are shown the final s...
2020-04-05 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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An Installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective Patreon
Thank you for your support, and a warm welcome to our new patrons! This week we are excited to present you with an Art History lecture given by Erica Arcudi, a principal instructor at The Florence Academy of Art.
This lecture, titled “Designing the Viewer’s Experience,” is an explo...
2020-03-28 16:50:51 +0000 UTC
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An installment in The Process related content featured on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
As always, thank you for your support and a very warm welcome to our new subscribers! Every person who joins The FAA Collective is an integral member of The FAA Collective Community and we are so excited to be able to still share content with you throughout this difficult period for many.
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2020-03-21 15:22:27 +0000 UTC
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An Installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective Patreon Page
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your continued support! We hope this message finds you well during this difficult moment for many due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
This week on The FAA Collective we would like to present you with an Art History Lecture given by Tom Richards, Assistant Director of The Florence Academy of Art...
2020-03-12 16:31:00 +0000 UTC
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An installment in The Process related content featured on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support, and a very warm welcome to new members of The FAA Collective! This week we would like to share with you a video featuring Daniel Graves discussing many aspects of a recent painting Salomé’s Rue.
In this video Daniel touches on his choice of m...
2020-03-04 17:31:51 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
Thank you very much for your generous support! This week we would like to present you with a guest lecture recently given by Adam Miller on Classical Composition at the Florence Academy of Art.
Many people find classically composed works to have an innate sense of balance, beauty, and tension. In the first half of this lecture
2020-02-25 17:03:13 +0000 UTC
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An Installment in the Art Talk related content featured on The FAA Collective Patreon
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support! This week we are excited to present you with the second part of an Artist Talk with Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund. In this video Per Elof talks about his process of creating large works and how he implements inspiration from dreams into the content and method of his painting. Both this vi...
2020-02-15 17:18:31 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective.
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support! This week we would like to present you with a fantastic lecture by Jason Arkles on the Italian sculptor of the Renaissance, Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, 1386-1466). In this lecture Arkles expertly explains Donatello’s visual process, how he perceived and rendered the world in his...
2020-02-07 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the series of Technique related content featured on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
As always, thank you for your support! This week we would like to share with you a video featuring The Florence Academy of Art instructor Toby Neve demonstrating his method of grinding lead white (also known as flake white) oil paint by hand. In this video you will learn about the properties of various oils a...
2020-01-31 16:46:00 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective Patreon Page
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support! This week we are presenting you with Part 2 of an Art History video lecture on Naples by Tom Richards, the Assistant Director of The Florence Academy of Art. This week’s lecture focuses on the concept of mercy through a deep analysis of Caravaggio’s Sette opere di misericordia
2020-01-22 16:01:43 +0000 UTC
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An installment in The Process related content featured on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support! We received such wonderful feedback on the first part The Process w/ Vitaliy Shtanko that by popular demand we are releasing the second part of this series early! This video features The Flor...
2020-01-15 16:03:06 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective Patreon Page
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support! This week we would like to present you with Part 1 of an Art History video lecture given by Tom Richards, the Assistant Director of The Florence Academy of Art, on some of the many wonders to be found in the Italian city of Naples and its nearby areas such as Herculaneum and Pompeii.
...
2020-01-06 16:14:01 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons,
We at The FAA Collective would like to wish you and yours a very Happy New Year!
Along with celebration and planning for this upcoming year, for us, comes reflection on the past. 2019 was a big year!
This Patreon was conceived, planned, and finally launched in October of 2019 with a private tier for Faculty...
2020-01-01 21:14:40 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons,
As always, thank you for your support! We greatly appreciate your contributions and hope you enjoy having access to the original and exclusive content made available for you on this platform. This week we would like to give you early access to an exciting video about the Summer Workshops at The Florence Academy of Art.
Beyond the long term programs in Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, The Florence Academy of Art host...
2019-12-27 15:53:07 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Art History related content on The FAA Collective Patreon page
Dear Patrons,
Thank you, as always, for your kind support. This week we would like to present you with a fantastic video lecture by The Florence Academy of Art’s Assistant Director, Tom Richards, on the captivating and complex art of portraiture.
In this lecture Tom explores the concept and practice of portraiture in bo...
2019-12-19 16:28:16 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Art Process related content featured on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support! We are excited to announce that we have over 200 subscribers to The FAA Collective! Thank you for being a part of this initiative to fund scholarships and artist residencies through the creation and sharing of original content.
This week we would like to present you with a video featuring ...
2019-12-12 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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An Installment of the Art History related content featured on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your continued support! This week we would like to present you with an Art History Lecture given by Erica Arcudi, a Principal Instructor at The Florence Academy of Art and working painter. Before joining the FAA community Erica received a BA in Classical Archeology from UNC Chapel Hill. In this lecture she uses her exper...
2019-12-09 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support!
This week we would like to share with you some images from the recent opening of Winter Collective, the FAA Florence Faculty Exhibition this past Saturday.
Nearing the end of the Fall Trimester at The Florence Academy of Art and the start of the holiday season, this group-show opening was a wonderful meeting of minds of the thriving art community in Florence, Italy and the exhibition...
2019-12-03 17:46:31 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the series of Art History related content on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for support! This week we would like to present you with an exciting video lecture by Tom Richards, Assistant Director of The Florence Academy of Art on the traditions, aesthetics, and philosophies of Academic Art.
Many of us, especially if you’re subscribing to this Patreon channel, are likely aest...
2019-11-27 15:34:59 +0000 UTC
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A video tour of The FAA campus in Florence, Italy
Dear Patrons,
November 20th was #ThankYouPatrons Day, and we would like to emphasize how thankful we are for your kind support!
The FAA Collective on Patreon supports The Florence Academy of Art community, and this platform is simply an extension of the rich network of training, working, and teaching artists, and patrons already deeply...
2019-11-22 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Art History related content featured on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support!
This week we would like to present you with a lecture given by Maureen Hyde, artist and The Florence Academy of Art faculty member, who discusses light as a member of visual storytellers’ toolkits by analyzing a few works by Rembrandt as well as guiding ...
2019-11-17 15:33:00 +0000 UTC
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An installment in a series of Art Talk videos featured on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
As always, thank you for your support and a warm welcome to to our new subscribers! This week we are excited to present you with a video of Daniel Graves, artist and Founder of The Florence Academy of Art, discussing the inspiration behind his painting Salome’s Ruse a...
2019-11-13 17:19:03 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the Art History related content to be featured on The FAA Collective
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your kind support!
By popular demand, this week we would like to share with you a video lecture created from a recent talk given by Tom Richards, Art History Director of The Florence Academy of Art, on the Spanish painter Joaquin S...
2019-11-06 15:40:59 +0000 UTC
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Creating a Plaster Cast from a Silicone Mold with Thor Larsen
The first installment in a series of Technique related content to be featured on The FAA Collective.
Dear Patrons,
Thank you for your support! This week we would like to share with you a video of artist Thor Larsen demonstrating his technique for creating a plaster cast from a silicone mold.
...
2019-11-01 15:45:00 +0000 UTC
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An installment in the series of Art History related content on The FAA Collective
Dear Patreons,
Thank you for your generous support!
Please enjoy this first Art History Podcast we have created for you from a lecture recorded at The Florence Academy of Art campus.
During this lecture our history director Tom Richards analyzes four paintings by Jusepe de Ribera depicting St. ...
2019-10-28 18:46:41 +0000 UTC
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The first installment in a series of Art Talk videos to be featured on The FAA Collective.
The FAA Collective would like to present "The Craft of Art and Nature,” an immersive video interview with artist, Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund, graduate of and former principal instructor at The Florence Academy of Art.
In this talk Per Elof openly discusses how many things...
2019-10-22 17:36:30 +0000 UTC
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The Global Launch is Near!
In the meantime...
We are excited to present our brand new project, the FAA Collective, to our students at the Florence Academy of Art campus in Florence this Friday!
We will be screening a sneak preview of the exclusive video content we have been working on all summer and our eager to hear your thoughts about it.
See you there!
2019-10-10 16:50:49 +0000 UTC
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We want to thank all our students and faculty who decided to sign up!
The proceeds from the low-cost subscription will, with your help, raise funds to support scholarships, artist residencies, and more!
We are very excited about this project and cannot wait to hear from you what you would like us to film!
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at:
thefaacollective@gmail.com!
2019-10-05 09:17:52 +0000 UTC
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