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AGENDATHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 (continued)FACE StageTRAC Room11:30AM-12:30PMElliot Bostwick Davis Presentation:The Place of Figurative Art in theAmericas: New Acquisitions at theMuseum of Fine Arts, BostonNo Programming12:30PM-2PMLunch (on your own)2PM-3PMJacob Collins Presentation:An Art World in CrisisNo Programming3:10PM-5:50PMDavid A Leffel Demo: Edges:The Soul of the Painting3:10PM-3:50PMShannon Robinson Presentation:The Changing Global Art Market andthe Future of the Professional Artist3:55PM-4:55PMEric Rhoads Presentation:Marketing for Figurative Artists5PM-5:50PMPeter Trippi Presentation: TheChallenges of Being an Artist Today6PM-7PMDinner (on your own)7PM-7:45PMDavid A Leffel & Friends PanelDiscussion: What Makes a Paintinga Work of Art, moderated byDr. Michael J. Pearce7:50PM-10PMSpecial viewing of the documentaryDavid A Leffel: An American Master,followed by a Q&A with David A LeffelNo ProgrammingSTUDIO: Country Club Ballroom6PM-11PMStudio open with mentors and models. Mentors are Ryan S. Brown, Graydon Parrish,Michael Mentler, Greg Mortenson, Patricia Watwood.**Fee requiredDAY 3: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10Expo Hall: Open 8AM-6PMFACE StageTRAC Room8AM-8:20AMHome RoomNo Programming8:30AM-11:20AMJohn Coleman Demo:Evolving Head8:30AM-9:10AMGeorge O’Hanlon Presentation:Painting Best Practices9:15AM-9:55AMRandall Van Schepen Paper:Dis/Appearing: Tentative Figural Practices10AM-10:40AMDavid Molesky Paper: Real-Photoism10:45AM-11:25AMAihua Zhou Paper: Chinese Face andAmerican Body: Uncovering Images ofMasculinity in Late 19th to Mid 20th CenturyChinese and American Painting11:30AM-12:30PMSteven Assael Presentation:EvolutionNo Programming9

AGENDAFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 (continued)12:30PM-2PMLunch (on your own)FACE StageTRAC Room2PM-3PMStephen Hicks Presentation: TheFlight from the Figure – and Back:Human Significance in ArtNo Programming3:10PM-5:50PMJuliette Aristides Demo:The Fine Art of Figure Drawing3:10PM-3:50PMJustin Kunz Paper: Culture, Allegory, andEthnicity in Contemporary Representational Art3:55PM-4:35PMSuzy Hart Paper: The Figure as Communicator4:40PM-5:50PMJoseph Bravo Paper: SkilledRepresentationalism, the Contemporary ArtCanon, and the Dynamics of Institutional Power7:30PM-8:25PMPanel Discussion: What Does Victory forRepresentational Art Look Like?moderated by Dr. Michael J. Pearce8:35PM-9:30PMPanel Discussion: Is This a Movement? If So,What Now?, moderated by Peter Trippi6PM-7PMDinner (on your own)No ProgrammingSTUDIO: Country Club Ballroom8:30AM-6PMStudio access available; no mentors or models present.*6PM-11PMStudio open with mentors and models. Mentors are Ryan S. Brown, Graydon Parrish,Michael Mentler, Greg Mortenson, Patricia Watwood.*DAY 4: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11Expo Hall: Open 8AM-3PMFACE StageTRAC Room8AM-8:20AMHome RoomNo Programming8:30AM-10:30AMDaniel Gerhartz Demo:Training Your Eye to See8:30AM-9:20AMDr. Michael J. Pearce Paper:Throwing Down the Gauntlet9:30AM-10:10AMVirgil Elliott Paper: Aspire to Inspire10:40AM-11:40AMDaniel Graves Presentation:Our Way Forward Is in the PastNo Programming11:50AM-1:50PMMichael Mentler Demo:Life Drawing from the Ground Up11:50AM-12:35PMMax Ginsburg Presentation:Multifigure Paintings and Realism12:40PM-1:20PMBrian Curtis Paper: Beauty, Quality,and the Good: Art as a MaterialReflection of a Spiritual Reality2PM-2:30PMClosing CeremonySTUDIO: Country Club Ballroom8:30AM-2PM*Fee required10Studio access available; no mentors or models present.*

FACULTY BIOSJulietteAristidesJuliette Aristides is aSeattle-based painterwho seeks to understand and convey the human spiritthrough art.Actively dedicated to rebuildinga traditional arts education in theUnited States, Aristides is the founderand director of the Aristides Atelierat the Gage Academy of Fine Art inSeattle, Washington. She teachesworkshops both nationally andinternationally. She is the author ofThe Classical Drawing Atelier, TheClassical Painting Atelier, Lessons inClassical Drawing, and Lessons inClassical Painting, all published byWatson-Guptill. Aristides is recognized as a Living Master by the ArtRenewal Center.Steven AssaelSteven Assael is anAmerican painterrecognized nationallyas one of the leadingrepresentational figurative artists ofhis generation.Born and raised in New York, NewYork, Assael showed an enthusiasmfor art at a young age, taking artclasses at the Museum of ModernArt at the age of 4. He attended PrattInstitute in Brooklyn and currentlyteaches at the School of Visual Artsin New York and at the New YorkAcademy of Art.Joseph BravoJoseph Bravo is anindependent curatorand arts writer. With amaster’s degree in arthistory and over 25 years workingin museums and as a university arthistory instructor, Bravo brings uniqueinsights to the interpretation andcontextualization of fine art. For thelast 15 years, Bravo has focused hisattention on issues in contemporaryart, particularly those relating to thedynamics of the creation of art canonand the inclusion of marginalizedaesthetic optics. Bravo has made ithis life’s pursuit to share the intrinsicvalue and illuminating power of fineart with anyone who would aspire toperceive it.Ryan S. BrownRyan S. Brown receivedhis B.F.A. in illustrationfrom Brigham YoungUniversity and studieddrawing at the Florence Academyof Art in Florence, Italy. Upon hisreturn from Florence, he opened hisown drawing school, the ClassicalDrawing Academy, and taught at theLos Angeles Academy of FigurativeArt, Brigham Young University, andUtah Valley University. Ryan finishedhis painting studies at the FlorenceAcademy in 2008, and then openedthe Art Renewal Center-approvedMasters Academy of Art.John ColemanJohn Coleman was bornin 1949 in California. Hissubject matter is basedon American mythology,where mood and symbolism areparamount.Last November marked the openingof Past/Present/Future, a retrospective spanning 50 years of John’scareer at Scottsdale’s Museum of theWest that culminated with a sold-outone-man show at Legacy Gallery.John is a member of the CowboyArtists of America, a Fellow of theNational Sculpture Society, a Signature Member of the California ArtClub, and a Prix de West artist.Jacob CollinsJacob Collins is aleading figure in thecontemporary revivalof classical painting.He earned a B.A. in history fromColumbia College and attended theNew York Studio School, the NewYork Academy of Art, and the ArtStudents League.His work has been widely exhibited in North America and Europeand is included in several Americanmuseums. Collins is the founder ofthe Water Street Atelier, the GrandCentral Academy of Art, the HudsonRiver Fellowship, and the GrandCentral Atelier.Nilda ComasNilda Comas is aninternational artist.In 2017, Comas wascommissioned to createa new statue for the National StatuaryHall inside the U.S. Capitol building inWashington, D.C. Comas’s works havebeen exhibited and are part of publicand private collections worldwide.Comas believes that technicalmastery is vital to creating fine art.She has studied the techniques ofClassical, Renaissance, Baroque, andModern sculpture.Brian CurtisBrian Curtis currentlyholds the position ofassociate professor ofdrawing and paintingat the University of Miami, CoralGables, Florida. He wrote, designed,illustrated, and produced an introductory perceptual drawing text, Drawingfrom Observation (2010).Throughout most of Brian’s paintingcareer he has focused on psychomythological figurative narrativesthat explore the transitional, tentativemoments occurring between times ofpurposeful human activity.Elliot BostwickDavisElliot Bostwick Davis,John Moors CabotChair of the Art of theAmericas Department at the Museumof Fine Arts, Boston since January2001, came to the MFA from theMetropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork. In her position as chair of theMFA’s Art of the Americas Department, Davis oversees the museum’s11

FACULTY BIOSextensive collection of art of theAmericas.She is a trustee of MassHumanities, a councilor for the AmericanAntiquarian Society in Worcester,Massachusetts, and an overseer ofthe North Bennett Street School inBoston.Virgil ElliottArtist Virgil Elliott is theauthor of Traditional OilPainting — AdvancedTechniques andConcepts from the Renaissance to thePresent, published by Random House,and is ranked a Living Master by theArt Renewal Center, where he servesas technical adviser. He is an activemember of the ASTM Subcommitteeon Artists’ Paints and Materials, and iswidely acknowledged as an expert onoil painting materials and techniques.Virgil has taught art for the last 35years, privately and in various institutions. His primary focus throughout hislong life, however, has always been oncreating his own artwork.Saskia EubanksSaskia Eubanks is afigurative painter fromNew Orleans, Louisiana.In addition to paintingand exhibiting, she has worked inmuseum education, art conservation,as an independent curator, and asan arts writer, and has taught studiopainting, drawing, and sculpture ata number of institutions, as well aswriting seminars on art at BostonUniversity. Her most recent soloexhibition took place in New Orleansin October of 2017. She is currentlyteaching painting at Tulane Universityas well as the New Orleans Academyof Fine Arts.Daniel GerhartzDaniel Gerhartz’sskillful and technicallyadept work celebratesthe created world, thehuman form, and personal rela12tionships. Many of his figures aredressed in dramatic clothing, whichhe often invents for its aestheticappeal and lyrical quality so as toachieve a sense of otherworldliness.About his work, Daniel has said,“My goal is to effectively record therichness of our human experience,the contrasts between life and death,the beautiful and common, joy andsorrow, while in the end, offering amessage of hope.”Max GinsburgGinsburg’s paintingsare in many museumsand private collections,including the ButlerInstitute of American Art, the NewBritain Museum, and the Society ofIllustrators Museum. Ginsburg taughtart over 50 years and has given manyworkshops around the world. In 2011he published the book Max Ginsburg— Retrospective.Over the years he has receivedmany awards; most recently, hewas awarded the William DraperGrand Prize at the Portrait Societyof America 2015 Competition, theGold Medal Award at the CaliforniaArt Club for Lifetime Achievement inthe Arts, and Best in Show in the ArtRenewal Center’s 2011 InternationalSalon Competition.Drake GómezDrake Gómez is anartist, curator, andeducator, currentlyserving as professor inthe Visual Arts Program at KeystoneCollege in Pennsylvania.Gómez has curated over 50exhibitions of work by artists fromthroughout the U.S. and other countries, and has written numerous criticaland interpretive essays on the workof contemporary artists. In 2007, hereceived the Arts Commentary Awardfrom the Pennsylvania Council on theArts. He is currently curating a nationalexhibition of paintings and drawingsby the late Nathan Goldstein.Daniel GravesGraves traveled toFlorence in the ’70sin search of the techniques of those masterswho inspired him most: Rembrandt,Titian, Velasquez, and the FrenchAcademic painters. He studied underNerina Simi and met Pietro Annigoni.He found a personal style that fusesthe richness of 19th-century Italianpainting with academic draftsmanship. Graves founded the FlorenceAcademy of Art in 1991 to keep alivethe tradition of great painting andsculpture. The Academy has threelocations: Florence, Italy; Mölndal,Sweden; and Jersey City, New Jersey.Suzy HartBorn in England,Suzy Hart grew up inMontreal and SouthCarolina. She is a LifeMember of the Art Students Leagueof New York, where she spent severalyears studying with Frank Mason,N.A., and Gustav Rehberger. Sheearned her B.A. in sculpture with aminor in art history at Montana StateUniversity. A lifelong and devotedportraitist, she primarily paintscommissions and figurative imaginative works. She has taught at theGreenville Museum of Art and othervenues, and is a Signature Member ofthe Pastel Society of America and ofthe Appalachian Pastel Society. Shehas received several awards from thePortrait Society of America.Stephen HicksStephen R.C. Hicks isprofessor of philosophyat Rockford University,Illinois. He received hisbachelor’s and master’s degrees fromthe University of Guelph, Canada,and his Ph.D. from Indiana University,Bloomington. In 2010, he won hisuniversity’s Excellence in TeachingAward.He was a visiting professor atGeorgetown University, visiting fellow

FACULTY BIOSat the Social Philosophy & PolicyCenter in Bowling Green, Ohio, andsenior fellow at the Objectivist Centerin New York.He has published four books,and his work has been published inacademic journals such as Review ofMetaphysics and other publicationssuch as the Wall Street Journal.Lee HuttLee Hutt studiedpainting in Belgium,where her love of classical traditions in artwas encouraged.She earned an M.S. in science fromColumbia University, and studied artat the New School and sculpture atMount Holyoke College and LymeAcademy.Lee Hutt combines psychologicalinsight with an intuitive response toher subjects. Her work ranges fromstraightforward portraits of people andanimals to figurative compositions.Hutt is a0.5986fellow and member ofthe board of the National SculptureSociety, a member of the board ofthe Allied Artists of America, and amember of the Catharine LorillardWolfe Art Club.Justin KunzJustin Kunz is an artist,educator, and designerof American coins andmedals. Kunz holds aMaster of Fine Arts degree in paintingfrom Laguna College of Art andDesign. He is an assistant professorin the Department of Design atBrigham Young University, and hispaintings have been included in exhibitions throughout the United States.As a master designer in the UnitedStates Mint Artistic Infusion Program,his numismatic design creditsinclude the 2017 American Liberty225th Anniversary Gold Coin, 2016American Liberty Silver Medal, andthe St. Regis Mohawk Tribe CodeTalkers Congressional Gold Medal,among others.Donald KuspitDonald Kuspit is oneof America’s mostdistinguished art critics.He is the DistinguishedProfessor Emeritus of Art History andPhilosophy at the State Universityof New York at Stony Brook and thesenior critic at the New York Academyof Art. He has doctorates in philosophy (University of Frankfurt) and arthistory (University of Michigan). Hewas the editorial adviser for EuropeanArt 1900-50 and art criticism for theEncyclopedia Britannica (16th edition),and wrote the entry on art criticismfor it. He serves as a contributingeditor for several art magazines,and has published several books ofpoetry.David A LeffelDavid A Leffel is notonly recognized by hispeers as a painters’painter, he is considered by many to be no less than theartistic reincarnation of Rembrandt.In New York he became a reveredinstructor at the Art Students League,where he shared his special understanding of painting with thousandsof students from all over the world.Colleagues and collectors alikerecognize Leffel as a modern master.Leffel has written two books thathave met worldwide acclaim for theirability to integrate his understandingof technical aspects of painting withhis philosophy and humor: An ArtistTeaches and Self-Portraits: A VisualJourney of Insight.Sherrie McGrawSherrie McGraw studiedand taught paintingand drawing at thelegendary Art StudentsLeague of New York. Recent recognitions include an honorary doctoratefrom the Academy of Art University inSan Francisco and a rare medal fromthe Butler Institute of American Art,recognizing her Lifetime Achievementin American Art. Her work has shownin major museum shows for years,and she is recognized as a prominentartist of our time.An accomplished writer, McGrawauthored The Language of Drawingand has made contributions to twocomprehensive books on NicolaiFechin’s drawings and paintings.McGraw continues to teach worldwide through The Artists Guild online.Michael MentlerMichael Mentler hadhis first solo exhibitionof works at age 14. Hewould later study at theLayton School of Art in Milwaukeeand Washington University in SaintLouis, where he taught figure drawingand classical design. Michael’s workwas most recently featured in American Artist Drawing Magazine in anarticle titled “Learn From the Sketchbooks of a Modern Day Leonardo.”Michael is also featured in JulietteAristides’s book Lessons in ClassicalDrawing (Essential Techniques FromInside the Atelier). He is the founderand director of the Society of Figurative Arts & Artists.David MoleskyDavid Molesky is a NewYork City-based painterand writer. Moleskyreceived his B.A. fromUC Berkeley in 1999. Over the past25 years, he has painted a variety ofsubject matter in oils, including turbulent seawater, forest fires, archetypalnarratives, and most recently, riots.He focuses on universal humanisticthemes and the experience of thesublime and beautiful. These paintings have been featured in museumexhibitions across the globe, and arein public collections on both coastsand in Europe.13

FACULTY BIOSFina MooneyFina Mooney is a13-year-old aspiringartist. After startingclasses at the ArtAcademy at age 5, she honed herskills in mixing values and copyinggreat educational works. She thenprogressed to more advanced workand entered the world of oils. Herassignments have grown to Barguestudies, glazing studies, live modelwork, sight-size techniques, allaprima, and direct painting.She has won several first prizes anda State Fair Grand Prize award forher work. In 2017, she was awardeda scholarship for a summer workshop of her choice at the FlorenceAcademy of Art.GregoryMortensonGregory Mortensonis a classically trainedartist. After receiving hisdegree in art, he studied life drawingand painting, then moved to New Yorkto further his education in classicaltechnique at Water Street Atelier atthe Grand Central Academy of Art.The majority of the figure paintingsMortenson creates are presented tothe viewer as simple half-length orbust portraits. What is most impressive is the artist’s ability to utilize asubtle downward glance, a slight partin the lips, or a tilted chin to conveyreflections of inner life. Mortensonteaches portrait drawing and paintingat Grand Central Academy.William OberstWilliam Oberst holdsa Ph.D. in philosophyfrom ClaremontGraduate Universityand an M.F.A. in painting from StonyBrook University. At Stony Brook hetaught painting and drawing coursesand directed the University Scholarsprogram. He has been selectedas one of Today’s Masters by FineArt Connoisseur magazine, and his14paintings reside in collections in theU.S. and abroad. He was a principalcontributor to The Mill Childrenexhibiti

Michael Mentler, Greg Mortenson, Patricia Watwood.* DAY 4: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Expo Hall: Open 8AM-3PM FACE Stage TRAC Room 8AM-8:20AM Home Room No Programming 8:30AM-10:30AM Daniel Gerhartz Demo: Training Your Eye to See 8:30AM-9:20AM Dr. Michael J. Pearce