TheStevensonAcademy.com
Title
Long Island Art School | SAFA
Description
The Stevenson Academy of Fine Arts is a world-class art school and cultural center to Long Island. This new facility,is an expansion of the highly respected Stevenson Academy of Traditional Painting, established in 1960. The academy has been fulfilling the need for an art school of quality that focuses on technique and skill ever since.The new home of the Stevenson Academy of Fine Arts is an airy, elegant building in Oyster Bay at 20 Audrey Avenue with an art gallery on the first floor and classrooms on the second. An exceptional faculty offers classes in drawing, painting, sculpture, pottery, photography, art history, advertising and writing. The Academy also presents community programs in art, music and literature. A very civilized live Chamber Music Sunday Brunch and a live Jazz Sketch Night are just two in a series of ongoing and innovative special Events presented by the school to the public.
Instructors at the academy have been selected for their achievements as professional artists at the top of their respective fields and for their strong belief in passing on their knowledge. The director is Attila Hejja, a prominent professional artist and illustrator whose work can be seen by millions on magazine and book covers, in national and international print ad campaigns and in television commercials. He is an official NASA artist, a stamp artist for both the US and UN postal services, an official U.S. Air Force artist, designer of the first Star Trek movie poster and an illustrator for National Geographic, Time, Reader’s Digest and Popular Mechanics magazines. His works hang in museums, galleries and boardrooms around the world.
The Stevenson Academy offers classical art education, teaching many of the same techniques and principles of the European art academies of the 19th century. "We focus on providing the students with skills," says Hejja.There are programs for the entry level student, the recreational student and of course, extensive programs for the serious art student with an art career in mind. "If you have a love of art and you're willing to roll up your sleeves and dig into the work, the student trained here can produce remarkably beautiful results, " says Hejja. The History of The Stevenson Academy of Fine Arts
Languages
English
Contact
- Geoghegan, Aggie
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- Oyster Bay NY
- United States 11771
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- 516-922-8011
