OUR CORE CLASSES
Our Core Program offers the finest quality representational art education seeped in tradition and taught by a highly credentialed, knowledgeable faculty.
SPRING WORKSHOPS
Join us for our vibrant Spring program, beginning in April, offering our core and supplementing with exciting, informative workshops and an amazing lecture series by our own Bob Potter.
SUMMER COMING SOON
Our robust Summer offerings have something for everyone. Adult, youth, workshops and landscape programs are enhanced by community events, lectures and exhibits. Schedule coming soon.
SUMMER YOUTH ACADEMY
Lyme Academy prides itself on offering outstanding art education to our youth clientele. Our Pre-College Academy for High School students prepares young artists for a serious studio practice while our Middle School Academy inducts our 11-13 year-olds to the materials and techniques of the great Master Artists of history. ENROLLING NOW!
ACADEMY OF AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING
Celebrate Old Lyme as the birthplace of American Impressionism by learning the strategies of the Masters. Renowned Landscape Painter Donald Demers heads up this innovative Landscape School atelier style.
OPEN DRAWING
Our Weekly Open Drawing Sessions invite artists of all abilities to draw with a live model providing practice and community.
ZUFAR BIKBOV
Zufar, a Russian native, started taking drawing and painting classes at age nine. He was eleven when he painted his first few plein air works; depicting nearby village cottages and a horse resting next to a carriage delivering pies to the local market. He fell in love with landscape painting and started exploring the language of direct expression of what just in front of him.
Zufar’s town and landscape style leans towards Russian and Soviet era impressionism. For him, art is a continuous experimentation and growth. After more than a decade of traveling and painting in the US, he changed his painting palette to a higher key.
A spur of interest to plein air painting in the United States, brought the artist to national level competitions, where he won a number of awards. Among others, Zufar treasures his several Artist Choice awards at Plein Air Easton (Maryland). Another memorable achievement was receiving "The Medal of Honor and Merit Awards" from the Kent Art Association, the first U.S. art organization he had joined. Recently, he was honored to receive the Irvine Museum Award at the Laguna Plein Air national competition in Laguna Beach, California. His works are widely present in private collections across the United States, in the UK, Spain, and of course in Russia.
Zufar’s town and landscape style leans towards Russian and Soviet era impressionism. For him, art is a continuous experimentation and growth. After more than a decade of traveling and painting in the US, he changed his painting palette to a higher key.
A spur of interest to plein air painting in the United States, brought the artist to national level competitions, where he won a number of awards. Among others, Zufar treasures his several Artist Choice awards at Plein Air Easton (Maryland). Another memorable achievement was receiving "The Medal of Honor and Merit Awards" from the Kent Art Association, the first U.S. art organization he had joined. Recently, he was honored to receive the Irvine Museum Award at the Laguna Plein Air national competition in Laguna Beach, California. His works are widely present in private collections across the United States, in the UK, Spain, and of course in Russia.
PAINTING EN PLEIN AIR AND IN-STUDIO
BRIAN BOOTH CRAIG
Brian Booth Craig is a contemporary sculptor who specializes in bronze. Sculpting from life, his work translates classically derived figures into contemporary icons. Brian studied sculpture at Pennsylvania State University (BA) and the New York Academy of Art (MFA), and worked with sculptors Nina Akumu and Audrey Flack. Brian taught at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and instructs workshops world wide. See more at brianboothcraig.com.
SCULPTING THE FIGURE
SAMUEL HUNG
Samuel Hung (born in Taiwan, 1981) is a New York based artist currently living in Brooklyn. He earned his BFA in illustration from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) and furthered his painting studies at the Grand Central Atelier (New York, NY) focusing on techniques from the 19th century French Academy. His paintings can be found in collections in the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. See more at http://www.samuelhung.com
MINIMALIST STILL-LIFE PAINTING
RICK LACEY
Originally from Evergreen, Colorado, Rick has spent most of his life living in Lyme, Connecticut. He graduated from Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in 2011, with a BFA in painting. He is a recipient of the American Visions Award as well as the John Stobart Fellowship Award. Rick has taught observational drawing, figure drawing, portrait painting, and horse drawing. Rick has been featured in both American Artist and Art of the West magazine. His work is primarily figurative, he strives to create timeless contemporary American portraits.
THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE HUMAN FIGURE
WILLIAM MINTER
Will Minter and Leah Russell founded Wheel to Sea, a video production company that serves mission-driven organizations in CT and beyond. They create videos to help clients promote their causes, celebrate their achievements, and educate their audiences. They have worked with many partners, including museums, non-profits, schools, cities, factories, and social enterprises. Besides video production, they also bring expertise in teaching, publishing, and non-profit work.
VIDEO FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
KIMBERLY MONSON
Kimberly received a BFA from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and a MFA from the New York Academy of Figurative Art, Cum Laude. Kimberly Monson taught with Lyme Academy Founder Elisabeth Gordon Chandler 2001¬2003 and is a core instructor at Lyme Academy teaching sculpture, anatomy and drawing. She launched the sculpture program at Amagansett Applied Arts in Long Island, NY and co-founded the East Hampton Academy of Art. Ms. Monson won the National Sculpture Competition in 1999. She is a National Sculpture Society Merit Scholarship winner and a two time recipient of the Reutershan Trust Sculptor in Residence in Sag Harbor, NY. Noteworthy commissions: author John Steinbeck, philanthropist Margaret Russel Sage and Katharine Hepburn for the “Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award”. See more at kimberlymonson.com
Represented by Peter Marcelle in Southampton, NY.
Represented by Peter Marcelle in Southampton, NY.
INSTRUCTED STUDIO
BOB POTTER
Art Lecture Presenter Bob Potter is a graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts. He spent his early career as a creative director at Scholastic Magazines, Time Warner, and National Geographic. Later, he helped develop an innovative art therapy program at Save The Children, was a corporate development officer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, headed marketing for Mystic Seaport, and most recently is a docent at the Yale Center For British Art and Board member of the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts. He and his wife Jeanne, who is an artist, live in Old Lyme, CT.
FACE TO FACE FIRST THURSDAY SPRING LECTURE SERIES
LEAH RUSSELL
Leah Russell and Will Minter founded Wheel to Sea, a video production company that serves mission-driven organizations in CT and beyond. They create videos to help clients promote their causes, celebrate their achievements, and educate their audiences. They have worked with many partners, including museums, non-profits, schools, cities, factories, and social enterprises. Besides video production, they also bring expertise in teaching, publishing, and non-profit work. See more at
VIDEO FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
MICHAEL VIERA
B.F.A., Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
M.F.A., New York Academy of Art
Michael is core instructor at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and developed the painting program At Amagansett Applied Arts in Long Island, NY. Michael Viera has awards from the National Arts Club, New York and The New Haven Paint and Clay Club, where his work is part of their permanent collection. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is part of numerous private collections.
Michael is represented by Peter Marcelle, Southampton, NY and MM Fine Art, New York, NY. See more at michaelviera.com
M.F.A., New York Academy of Art
Michael is core instructor at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts and developed the painting program At Amagansett Applied Arts in Long Island, NY. Michael Viera has awards from the National Arts Club, New York and The New Haven Paint and Clay Club, where his work is part of their permanent collection. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is part of numerous private collections.
Michael is represented by Peter Marcelle, Southampton, NY and MM Fine Art, New York, NY. See more at michaelviera.com
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