Monthly Archives: August 2010

Expansion/Renovations: Break on Through

… to the other side!  Mike Smith, Operations Manager at the Academy, takes us through the new opening which will connect the two buildings for the new New York Academy of Art. Follow our blog and see regular updates on the project! See our Flickr page for more photos.Please click here to contribute to the project.

…to Paris to Giverny

Sketching during the train ride. by Jason Sho Green (MFA 2011) After a few days in Paris, most of the group met up at Gare Saint Lazare and took the train 45 minutes up to Giverny. We were greeted by some of the Terra Foundation staff who showed us to our new studios, houses, and bicycles. The staff has been… Read More

Parlé Francais?

Hello Everybody! This is Jessie Brugger writing, graduate from the New York Academy of Art on a residency in France. Right now, I’m in the city of dancing girls, big cathedrals and their stained glass windows, haute couture thanks to the “Sun King” Louis 14th, incredible bread and cheese, protesters, the late Victor Hugo (one of my favorite writers), the famous Moulin… Read More

Hangin’ in the Garden (from Moses to Monet)

by Emily Adams (MFA 2011)The week of August 9th, I will begin a residency graciously offered to several Academy students by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Our studios will be located not far from the famed Giverny gardens, which I assume most of us know best as they were seen through the cataractous eyes of the aging Monet. We’ll see… Read More

Madrid to Barcelona to Paris to Giverny

This is Jason Sho Green, a second-year painting major at the Academy. I’m currently writing on the train from Madrid to Barcelona, on my way to Paris in a few days to meet up with the rest of the Terra Foundation/Giverny Residency group. JFK [airport] gives you plenty of time on the runway to work on cabin interior drawings… The… Read More

Lightning Rod – David Humphrey

David Humphrey is a New York artist represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. An anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was released this year by Periscope Publishing. He is a senior critic at Yale and was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome last year. He currently has a collaborative exhibition with Adam Cvijanovic at Postmasters gallery called… Read More

A Crit Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

… as is an artist community. DAY THREE – New England Painting Tourby Seth Ruggles Hiler (MFA 2005) Well, the workshop with painter Jon Imber has come to an end. I spent the morning painting on the porch of Penny’s B&B in Deer Isle, Stonington, Maine. Click here to see a short video. And later that afternoon came my final crit. I have shared a… Read More

Aus Deutschland: Exhibition!

by Aliene De Souza Howell (MFA 2011) We were all a little nervous when, just as the Opening for our exhibition in Leipzig began, it started pouring cats and dogs outside… but then the storm let up and the plethora of guests we were all hoping for inundated us. The hours of preparing food and cleaning and months of artmaking all… Read More