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"Here for the first time to my knowledge, an art studio is open to older and seasoned artists as well as to aspiring young students of college age. Established artists of international renown but belonging to the most diverse currents of contemporary art offer criticism, advice, and invaluable opportunity for discussion with men who stand at the center of their professional world."
Fred S. Licht
Art Voices, Spring, 1966
1967 Fine Arts Institute of New College
Offering an accelerated painting course for advanced artist-students
Sarasota, Florida
Personal Instruction
Class Critiques
Slides Lectures
The New College Fine Arts Institute was created for the advanced painter who is working to develop his own expression and who could benefit from the counsel of masters in the contemporary art field.
To the Institute come students directly from college and university classrooms, veteran painters struggling to reach new goals in their work, and relative newcomers to painting who have discovered their talents and wish to polish them in the discipline of a school-studio. Others come to absorb the philosophies of men whose works are represented in major museums and collections all over the world.
Visiting artist-faculty all are major figures in painting, their names well known: Afro, James Brooks, Jim Dine, Adolph Gottlieb, Balcomb Greene, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, Larry Rivers, Syd Solomon.
Teaching is largely on an individual basis in a studio atmosphere, supplemented by group critiques, lectures by faculty, or by showings of slides of faculty works.
Working in an informal atmosphere, the visiting artists draw on their experience and associations in the world of painting to aid the students in their search for a better means of expression.
The Institute is a complete school, with its own faculty, staff and studios, although it is closely associated with New College. Studios of the Institute are located on the New College campus and near the Ringling Museum of Art with its Baroque-dominated permanent collection, its many travelling exhibitions, plus programs of opera, drama, classic films and musical events.
The New College area, known for its sunny days, also has an intellectual and cultural climate that makes it a home for artists and writers, and draws considerable support for a symphony orchestra, community concerts, several playhouse groups, art associations, and a ballet company.
Six Faculty - 1967 Fine Arts Institute Faculty
(Below, Clockwise from top) Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Conrad Marca-Relli, Jim Dine, Syd Solomon. AT RIGHT, James Brooks.
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Home of Fine Arts Institute is large, well-light building, facing beautiful waterfront
The 1967 session of the Fine Arts Institute will be from January through April. Designed as an accelerated course for advanced painters, the Institute this year will feature three artists-in-residence (Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, and Syd Solomon) each teaching for one month. Three visiting artists (Jim Dine, James Brooks, and Adolph Gottlieb) teach supplementary workshop and seminar periods. Special lectures, slide-showings, demonstrations and exhibitions will be held throughout the four-month course.
The Institute is planned as an integral term of study. Students are urged to take advantage of the full four-month term of instruction, although in special circumstances and where space is available, arrangements will be made for one-, two-, or three-month sessions. Students completing the full term will receive a certificate from New College.
Tuition for the full term, including instruction, studio use, and all Institute special academic events, is $385; for three months, $330; two months, $220; and for one month, the minimum enrollment, $132.
Scholarships are offered to students demonstrating special abilities and need for financial assistance.
To make a preliminary application, fill out the form which is part of this brochure, or write to Director, Fine Arts Institute, New College, Sarasota, Florida 33578 for more information.
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School and Studios
6 Faculty
Information
Informal contact between faculty and student is frequent. Italian painter Afro and student discuss ideas. (Below)
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JAMES BROOKS is a three-year Fine Arts Institute faculty member and he has been a visiting critic of advanced painting at Yale University as well as artist in residence at the American Academy in Rome. Like his friend, Guston, he was once a figurative painter and now is considered a leading figure in the non-objective art. He has taught at Pratt Institute and at Columbia University.
JIM DINE, now artist in residence at Cornell University, has taught at Yale University and Oberlin College. At 31, he has exhibited at the Venice Bienale, has had three one-man shows at the Sydney Janis Gallery in New York, and has exhibited in the major capitals of Europe. A graduate of Ohio University, he has been living and painting in New York in recent years.
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB, a native New Yorker, studied in New York and Paris and taught at Pratt Institute and the University of California. His works won a first prize at the Bienal at Sao Paolo, Brazil and a third prize at the Carnegie International. He is represented in most major museum collections including the Metropolitan, Guggenheim, Whitney, Modern Art, Isaac Delgado and Corcoran.
PHILIP GUSTON achieved success as a figurative painter but in 1947 turned to abstract and is now a leading abstract expressionist. He has taught at the University of Iowa, Washington University, New York University and Pratt Institute. He has won the Prix de Rome, a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a $10,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI has been painting for 35 years, since he was 17. He was twice appointed a visiting critic at Yale University and served as visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He was among the first artists to receive a Ford Foundation grant and he is in his third year as a member of the faculty of the Fine Arts Institute. In 1960 he received the Detroit Institute of Arts Purchase Prize.
SYD SOLOMON, Professor of Art at New College, is coordinator of the Fine Arts Institute and a member of the founding faculty. He has participated in all of the important group shows in the U.S. and many abroad. Known widely as an experimenter and innovator in new techniques, Solomon’s works in 1964 were selected for special purchase by the Ford Foundation.
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