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Timothy STOTZ - Director/ Head of Faculty
Tutor in Painting and Drawing
is the founder, head of faculty, and director of Studio Escalier.
He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, at the Seattle Academy of Fine Arts, and privately.
His work is included in public and private collections across the United States & Europe.
He has been the recipient of many distinguished grants, fellowships and exhibition prizes for his painting.
They include an extended Fulbright-Hays Grant for Painting to Madrid, Spain, where he was sponsored by the painter
Antonio Lopez Garcia
to study the works of Velazquez and Goya; a Vermont Studio Center fellowship, where he worked with the painter
Gregory Gillespie; two grants
for classical painting from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Montreal, Canada; and a Stacey Foundation Award for Painting (1999).
Mr Stotz (b. 1969) received his MFA degree in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he studied under painter
Andrew Forge, N.A. and artist
Nigel Rolfe. He went to graduate school at the New York Academy of Art (1995-97)
and studied privately under the painter Ted Seth Jacobs in France (1993-2001).
Timothy Stotz holds a BA degree cum laude in Fine Arts from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia,
where he was encouraged by
Duane Keiser to study painting under Ray Berry.
Additionally, Mr Stotz was one of eight original members of the Jacob Collins Studio (1995-97)
and was one of eleven founding members of the Water Street Atelier (1997), both in Brooklyn, NY.
Nicole Michelle TULLY - Faculty
Tutor in Painting and Drawing
is currently represented by Iliad Antik Gallery
in New York City, and John Pence Gallery, 750 Post Street in San Francisco.
Her work has entered several distinguished private collections in the US and Europe, including HRH the Prince of Wales and Margot Gordon of NYC.
Ms Tully has been the recipient of grants, fellowships and exhibition prizes from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation,
the National Academy of Design (Mooney Travel Prize), the Anna Lee Stacey Foundation of Oklahoma City, and the Circulo de Bellas
Artes in Madrid, Spain (First Prize, 2001 - Life Drawing; First Prize, 2000- The Nude in Oil).
In 2004, she traveled on a Prince of Wales grant to paint and exhibit at the Chateau de Balleroy
in Normandie, France.
Ms Tully (b. 1972) received her MFA degree in Painting from the
Graduate School of Figurative Art - New York Academy of Art. She went to art school in New York City
at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design, and in France under Ted Seth Jacobs (1996, 1999, 2001).
She holds a BA degree magna cum laude in Art History from New York University.
She was one of eight original members of the Jacob Collins Studio (1994-97) and was one of eleven founding members of
the Water Street Atelier (1997-98), both in Brooklyn, NY.
Krista SCHOENING - Assistant Faculty
Tutor in Painting and Drawing
Krista M. Schoening (b. 1980) is a painter, draftsman and printmaker. She excels in still-life, portraiture, and intaglio printmaking (etching, engraving, drypoint, etc).
She is represented by
Argos Gallery
in Santa Fe, NM, exhibits at
Haynes Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, and was recently included in the 2011 Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of
Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London.
Ms. Schoening studied painting and drawing at Studio Escalier (Argenton-Chateau and Paris)
and at the Ryder Studio School in Santa Fe, where she worked as a studio and administrative assistant to
Anthony Ryder (2008-2010).
Schoening is a former work-study scholar,
Waterway Fellowship winner and studio manager at Studio Escalier (2007, 2009, 2010).
She received her BA magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame (2002) in anthropology and Spanish.
She pursued graduate and post-graduate studies in anthropology (PhD track 2004-2006) at Cornell University, where she
taught human evolution and physical anthropology.
Her prints, paintings and drawings are in private collections, both in the
United States and Europe.
M. Tobias HALL - Assistant Faculty
Tutor in Painting and Drawing
Tobias Hall is an emerging artist, a gifted draftsman and illustrator, and an astute painter in oils.
He has taught drawing and painting as an assistant instructor at the Ryder Studio School, and privately.
Mr Hall was the 2009 recipient of the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Foundation Award for Painting.
He has been awarded two Waterway Fellowships by Studio Escalier (2007, 2009) for artistic excellence.
Tobias Hall (b. 1981) received his BA magna cum laude in Fine Arts (Animation) from Arizona State University.
He studied drawing and painting at the Ryder Studio in Santa Fe, NM, at the Andreeva Portrait Academy, and
in various Studio Escalier Intensive courses and programs in Argenton-Chateau and Paris -- including daily drawing at
the Musee du Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay, and painting master copies in oil independently at the Louvre.
Tony RYDER - Founding Faculty
Visiting Tutor in Painting and Drawing
is represented by Andreeva Fine Art
in Santa Fe, NM, and Jenkins-Johnson Gallery in San Francisico.
He has exhibited his work widely in the United States, and is represented in many private
collections in the United States and Europe.
Mr Ryder is the author of one of the most respected and best-selling treatises on contemporary classical drawing,
The Artist's
Complete Guide to Figure Drawing,
and is widely regarded as one of the most gifted and influential draftsmen of our times. He has received exhibition prizes and fellowships
from the Salmagundi Club and Art Students League in NYC, and from the La Napoule Foundation (France).
Mr Ryder (b. 1957) is the founder of the Ryder Studio School in Santa Fe, NM. Since 1988, he has taught at the New York Academy of Art,
the Art Students League in NYC, the Seattle Academy of Fine Arts, and across the United States in a variety of private schools and organizations.
He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, and went to art school at the Rhode Island School of Design. He studied at
the Art Students League (NYC) with Ted Seth Jacobs for six years (1984-1990).
Ted Seth JACOBS - Critic Emeritus
Ted Seth Jacobs (b. 1927) is a renowned draftsman, painter, and art teacher, with more than 60 years of professional practice behind him.
He is the author of two authoritative books on the arts, Light for the Artist (1986) and Drawing with an Open
Mind (1985). His magnum opus,
A Dictionary of Human Form, is expected in late 2010.
Ted Jacobs served as a senior critic in our 2006-07 Intensive programs, but has recently retired from all teaching.
Mr Jacobs has taught at the Art Students League (as early as 1946), the New York Academy of Art (as founding faculty) and the Fashion
Institute of Technology. He is the founder of the Ecole Albert Defois (1987-2010), a private art school near Vihiers, France
(Maine et Loire), and has lectured at Studio Incamminati (2004), as well as the BACAA in San Francisco (2008, 2009).
During his career, Ted Jacobs has had more than sixty one-man exhibitions, in New York City, Boston, Washington DC, Biarritz and elsewhere.
He has received countless notable commissions in all genres: portrait, mural, landscape, and still-life, and received numerous awards and
prizes for his work, including the John F and Anna Lee Stacey Foundation Award for Painting (1952).
He is also esteemed for his influence on three generations of artists, draftsmen, and art teachers in NYC, including: Andrew Reiss,
Jerry Weiss, Leo Neufeld, Anthony Ryder, Will Cotton, Jacob Collins, Michael Grimaldi, and the founding faculty of Studio Escalier, among many others.
Ted Jacobs' richly decorated studio-residence in Les Cerqueux
sous Passavant, France is listed on the national registry of museums, and houses much of his work from 1985 onwards.
Rita Natarova - 2007 Visiting Faculty
Tutor in Painting and Drawing
Rita Natarova was born in 1980 in Moscow, Russia, and immigrated
to the United States of America in 1992.
She has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, fellowships and exhibition prizes
for her painting, including an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for Painting (2005);
the Charles Addams Memorial Prize for Excellence from the University of Pennsylvania (2005);
a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2002); and
a Fulbright-Hays Grant for Painting to Italy (2002), to study the works of Piero de la Francesca
and Masaccio.
Ms Natarova has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Brooklyn College, and the Gage Academy of Fine Arts in Seattle.
She has lectured at the International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture (Montecastello di Vibio, Italy), the
Studio Art Centers International (Florence) and the Jerusalem Studio School in Israel.
She received her BFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore, MD.
She studied painting at the Jerusalem Studio School under Israel Hershberg, and at Brooklyn
College under Lennart Anderson. She holds her MFA in Painting from the University of
Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.
The artist lives and works in New York City.
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