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"C'est cela le véritable chemin de l'amour, que l'on s'y engage soi-même ou que l'on s'y laisse conduire. Il consiste, en
partant des beautés sensibles, à monter sans cesse vers la beauté surnaturelle, en passant, comme par des échelons, d'un
beau corps à deux beaux corps, puis de deux beaux corps à tous..." -- Plato, le Banquet (Symposium)
("For this is the true mystery of the love to which we submit ourselves, or to which we let ourselves be led. Setting forth from perceptible
beauties, it consists in rising unceasingly towards beauty as an Idea, as if by ascending stairs, from one beautiful body to two beautiful bodies, from
two beautiful bodies to all...")
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STUDIO ESCALIER is an independent, private, studio 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 our 3-month Intensive Courses in drawing and painting -- and to our new
Monthly Programs and Winter Drawing Intensive in Paris -- is by advance application only.
Anyone may apply, there are no academic or other pre-requisites to apply as a student.
It is an open admissions process, based mainly on a review of artwork drawn from life.
Now offering courses in the heart of Paris as well as 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 figurative schools and traditions.
(NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles; France, UK, Ireland, Germany,
Holland, Italy, Spain, Russia, China and Korea).
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, illustrators, concept artists, animators,
muralists, scenic artists & set designers, college art teachers, architects, sculptors, printmakers, promising
undergraduate students in all these fields, and career-oriented beginners, of every age.
Our most current schedule of upcoming courses can always be found here on the Home page,
listed by their upcoming application deadlines:
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UPCOMING MONTHLY PROGRAMS in PARIS
The dates for our next monthly drawing program in Paris have been announced.
Timothy STOTZ
DECEMBER in PARIS - DRAWING PROGRAM 2010
Nov 29 - Dec 17, 2010
Michelle TULLY
20 hrs life-drawing and 9 daylight hrs @ the Louvre per week
The FINAL application deadline for December in Paris 2010 is September 30, 2010.
The December in Paris FINAL application PDF is now available for download from the
HOW to APPLY page!
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WINTER at the LOUVRE - DRAWING INTENSIVE 2011
Dates for this 9-week course, a new addition to our annual schedule, have also been announced.
Click here for details.
Our next Winter at the Louvre - Drawing Intensive will hold morning drawing sessions
in our new Paris Program Studio in Montmartre, as well as offer weekly critique of ongoing student drawings
at the Musee du Louvre.
The priority application deadline for Winter at the Louvre 2011 is August 30, 2010.
The Winter at the Louvre PRIORITY application PDF is now available for download from the
HOW to APPLY page!
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UPCOMING SPECIAL PROGRAMS in ARGENTON-CHATEAU
There are no monthly or special programs scheduled in Argenton-Chateau for Summer 2010 or Autumn 2010.
The dates for our biennial Spring Portrait Painting program have been announced:
Timothy STOTZ
SPRING 2011 - PORTRAIT PAINTING in OIL
April 15 - May 7, 2011
Michelle TULLY
3-week portrait painting curriculum in Argenton-Chateau
The priority application deadline for the SPRING 2011 - PORTRAIT PAINTING is September 30, 2010
The SPRING 2011 - Portrait Painting priority application PDF will be published online shortly!
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2011 SUMMER INTENSIVE
The application PDF for the
2011 Summer Intensive will be published online on September 1, 2010.
The priority application deadline for the 2011 Summer Intensive is January 1, 2011.
The critical format (18 - 30 hrs of figure studio instruction weekly) and the uniquely principled curriculum
of our Intensive Program are unavailable elsewhere.
The 2011 Summer Intensive will be team-taught by the artists Timothy Stotz and Nicole Michelle Tully.
The Summer 2011 course is entitled "Re-forming the Elements of Figurative Art".
It is a full-time 3-month curriculum in drawing and painting the human figure daily from life, held at our 3-Month Intensive Course Studio (Les Escaliers) in Argenton-Chateau
(see Facilities).
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NEED FINANCIAL HELP?
New merit scholarships and work-study tuition reductions are now available for our 3-month Intensive Programs.
The scholarship application deadline for Summer 2011 is November 15, 2010.
Click here for full details.
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