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New York Academy of Art

New York Academy of Art
Gallery
Established 1980
Location 111 Franklin Street
New York City
, New York, United States
40°43′06″N 74°00′22″W / 40.7184°N 74.0060°W / 40.7184; -74.0060Coordinates: 40°43′06″N 74°00′22″W / 40.7184°N 74.0060°W / 40.7184; -74.0060
Campus Urban
Other name Graduate School of Figurative Art
Website www.nyaa.edu

The New York Academy of Art is an American private, not-for-profit art university, located at 111 Franklin Street in the neighborhood of Tribeca in Manhattan borough of New York City. The Academy is a graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. Academy students are taught traditional methods and techniques.

The New York Academy of Art was founded in 1980 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol, Stuart Pivar, Dennis Smith and Russell Wilkinson. The founders were passionate about fostering the resurgence of representational and figurative art and recognized the importance of classical education in drawing, painting and sculpture as a solid foundation for contemporary artists.

The Academy is a graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. The Academy believes that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision. Academy students are taught traditional methods and techniques and encouraged to use these skills to make vital contemporary art. The Academy serves as a creative and intellectual center for all artists dedicated to highly skilled, conceptually aware figurative and representational art.

In addition to being a graduate school, the Academy is a “cultural force” - housing the nation’s first graduate school of figurative art, a continuing education program, the region’s most in-depth figurative art library, an extensive exhibition and lecture series, and iconic New York City events such as Take Home a Nude and Tribeca Ball.

The Academy received accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) in May 2013. The Academy was granted an Absolute Charter on June 24, 1994 by the Board of Regents of The University of the State of New York. It is institutionally accredited by the Board of Regents and the Commissioner of Education acting under their standing as a nationally recognized accrediting agency.

The college is the only one in the USA to offer a Master of Fine Arts in anatomical and figure drawing.


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