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STUDIO ESCALIER is a studio intensive art school and international arts residency program, designed and directed by master practitioners, dedicated to the contemporary classical study of drawing and painting from life.

Admission to all our 3-month intensive courses and special monthly programs is by advance application only.

Anyone may apply, there are no academic or other pre-requisites to apply as a student or as a resident.
It is an open admissions process, based mainly on a review of artwork done from life.


Located in Argenton-Chateau, France, we are an international point of contact for professionals, emerging artists and beginning art students alike, attracting members of many different North American and European figurative schools and traditions. (NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco; France, UK, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, and Russia).

We receive artists from New York to New Zealand, and all points in between (Fairbanks, Miami, Beijing, Johannesburg).

We are of interest to those who wish to place working from the human figure at the center of their artistic training, or those who have achieved enough as artists to openly re-evaluate, question, investigate and improve how they work from life. Our student body includes career painters, portraitists, muralists, illustrators, art directors, college art teachers, set designers, animators, graphic artists, art therapists, architects, sculptors, gifted undergraduate students in all these fields, and career-oriented beginners.

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2008 AUTUMN INTENSIVE

FINAL applications are now available for our 3-Month Autumn Intensive, August 28 - November 8, 2008.

Students interested in the 2008 Autumn Intensive should download the current application from our How to Apply page.

APPLY NOW - the FINAL application deadline for the 2008 Autumn Intensive is June 30, 2008. **


The critical format (18 - 30 hrs of studio instruction weekly) and the uniquely principled curriculum of our Intensive Program are unavailable elsewhere.

The 2008 Autumn Intensive will be team-taught by the artists Timothy Stotz and Nicole Michelle Tully.

The Autumn 2007 course is entitled "The Principles of Living Form". It is a full-time, 3-month curriculum held at the main studio (see Facilities), drawing and painting the human figure daily from life.


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UPCOMING MONTHLY PROGRAMS

The December in Paris - 2008 Drawing Program application PDF will be published online on May 15, 2008.

The priority application deadline for the December in Paris program is June 30, 2008.

Click course title below for course details:

Timothy Stotz         DECEMBER in PARIS - 2008 DRAWING PROGRAM                November 30 - December 19, 2008
and Michelle Tully        

Our ongoing monthly programs feature the finest artist-instructors in the contemporary classical world.
Each year, we offer between one and five monthly programs with our faculty, or selected visiting artists.


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NEED FINANCIAL HELP?

Merit scholarships and work-study tuition reductions are now available for our 3-month Intensive Programs.

Students interested in merit scholarships or work-study for Summer 2008 should apply no later than November 15, 2007.

Click here for full details.





 



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