What Is The Academy?
by Lynn S. Schwebach The Boulder School of Fine Art’s newest curriculum offering, the Academy, offers students a unique opportunity to complete a 3-year-program in classical art, based on an intensive, proven method that began in French ateliers over a century ago. The Old Masters learned to draw, paint, and sculpt at ateliers, but over the years art schools drifted away from classicism as abstraction grew in popularity. However, this method is now seeing a resurgence as arti
Art History Talk "Painters for Painters"
by Lynn Schwebach Instructors at the Boulder School of Fine Art say the word “squint” so many times that the students walk around with eyes barely open, an artist’s trick recently mimicked by a captive audience at the school’s art history talk “Painters for Painters” that took place April 8. But the seated audience didn’t stumble into palettes or trays of drawing supplies as students often do when squinting and stepping back from an easel. Instead, they sat on chairs around a
