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Timothy Stotz - Director/ Faculty
Tutor in Painting and Drawing
is the founder and director of Studio Escalier. He is represented by Paul Toner, 248 Lafayette Street in New York City,
and John Pence Gallery, 750 Post Street in San Francisco.
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 and 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; and two grants for classical painting from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Montreal, Canada.
Timothy Stotz is a professional member of the Musee du Louvre. He lectures on drawing and painting several times a year in the collections
of the Louvre and various other museums in Paris, exclusively to enrolled Studio Escalier students.
Mr Stotz (b. 1969) received his MFA degree in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he studied under
Andrew Forge, NA.
He went to art school in France at the Ecole Albert Defois under Ted Seth Jacobs
(1993-2001) and went to graduate school at the New York Academy of Art (1995-97).
He holds a BA degree cum laude in Fine Arts from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia.
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 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 at the Ecole Albert Defois 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.
Ted Seth Jacobs - Senior Critic/ Visiting Lecturer
Ted Seth Jacobs 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).
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 (est. 1987), a private art school near Vihiers, France
(Maine et Loire). During its entire existence, his courses there have been sold-out, normally many years in advance.
Ted Jacobs is highly sought-after as a lecturer, receiving offers from as far away as Shanghai and Tokyo.
In February 2004, in celebration of the writing of his magnum opus,
A Dictionary of Human Form, he delivered a series of lectures on representing human structure and action at
Studio Incamminati, in Philadelphia, PA.
During his career, Ted Jacobs (b. 1927) 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.
He is also esteemed for his strong influence on three generations of artist-draftsmen, and artist-teachers in NYC, including: Andrew Reiss,
Jerry Weiss, Anthony Ryder, Randolph Melick, Will Cotton, Jacob Collins, and Michael Grimaldi, 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.
Tony Ryder - Founding Faculty
Tutor in Painting and Drawing
is represented by Andreeva Fine Art
in Santa Fe, NM, and John Pence 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 normally considered among the most gifted and signature draftsmen of his generation. 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, and the Art Students League (NYC).
On his first day at the Art Students League, in January 1983, he attended a painting demonstration by Ted Seth Jacobs,
who became his teacher and mentor. Tony studied with him for 6 years (1984-1990). The human figure was the primary focus of his studies.
By 1985, Mr. Jacobs chose him to teach as his substitute.
Rita Natarova - 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 - Graduate School of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, PA.
Rita Natarova is represented by Forum Gallery in New York City.
The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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