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ACADEMY of FINE ARTS

Our Purpose

The Academy offers an engaging and diverse curriculum that explores the foundations of the fine arts as well as new and engaging explorations in the visual arts. Our faculty are masters in their craft and through lecture, studio study, and artistic creation our students engage in essential explorations that are both rigorous and relaxing.

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December Holiday Youth Camp

Dec 30

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Jan 3

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9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

All Levels Life Drawing in Charcoal, Pastel or Graphite

Jan 13

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Apr 28

MON

9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Independent Study: Printmaking

Jan 13

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Apr 14

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6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Beginning Abstract

Jan 13

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Apr 14

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Watercolor Sketchbook

Jan 13

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Feb 17

MON

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Advanced Still Life Oil Painting with Jonathan

Jan 13

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Apr 28

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Porch Premium Studio Space

Jan 13

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May 3

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9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Color & Design I: Introduction to Color Theory

Jan 13

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Feb 17

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Intermediate Abstract

Jan 13

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Apr 14

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1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Private Lessons

Jan 13

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May 3

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9:00 AM - 9:00 PM

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Featured Event

The Academy has literally and figuratively opened its doors to the city of New Orleans. We invite you to explore the opportunities to spend time on our campus and in our galleries.

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The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts Pattern

2024 Holiday Student Art Fair

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2024 Holiday Student Art Fair

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New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts - Annex

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The Academy

As a non-profit, it is our goal to enrich lives, encourage creativity, and help others to appreciate art by providing a nurturing environment for engaging education and personal enjoyment. We believe our work will preserve, sustain, and enhance the legacy in the visual arts for New Orleans and beyond. We need your support to make it so.

News Feed

Check out our latest posts that highlight the dynamic activities and important updates at The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.

Dec 9, 2024

Dec 2, 2024

2024 Holiday Art Fair

Come to the Academy and grab some last minute holiday gifts at the Holiday Art Fair!

Sep 30, 2024

Nov 8, 2024

Miniature Exhibition Call for Entries Notification

Miniature Exhibition to be held in February 2025

Nov 6, 2024

An Evening at the Academy

The Board of Directors hosted “An Evening at the Academy”

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Our Faculty

Our faculty are talented artists and excellent teachers. While some faculty have been with the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts for over 30 years, others are just beginning their tenure. Each faculty member brings a unique vision and style to the classroom.

Aimee Farnet Siegel

Aimee Farnet Siegel

Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand painted and manipulated paper. Her works inhabit space outside the two dimensional plain of paint on canvas, have a depth beyond collage and are closer in nature to assemblage.

Alex Beard

Alex Beard

American painter and author Alex Beard is best known for his elaborate wildlife compositions created in his signature style of gestural painting, which he has coined “Abstract Naturalism.”

Andrew Rodgers

Andrew Rodgers

The Executive Director of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, Andrew Rodgers, is an arts administrator, arts educator, and artist. He sits on the New Orleans Arts Council and is a passionate champion of the arts who has worked with arts institutions throughout the Gulf Coast to improve the lives of people through the arts.

Belinda Flores-Shinshillas

Belinda Flores-Shinshillas

Belinda Flores-Shinshillas is a visual artist born in Mexico City and a resident of New Orleans. Her artwork has been of a contemporary nature using the figure and representational elements as an important component in the visual narrative, merging it with abstract concepts and techniques as a way to move through space.

Ben Hamburger

Ben Hamburger

Ben Hamburger is a painter and art educator based in New Orleans, LA. Hamburger holds a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from Eckerd College and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Community Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art

Billy Solitario

Billy Solitario

Billy Solitario, who refers to himself as a “classic realist”, explores various subjects, including landscapes, portraits and still life paintings. His still life works honor the rainbow of colors found in the crabs, oysters, and crawfish native to the Gulf Coast.

Blainey Kern

Blainey Kern

Blainey Kern grew up immersed in Mardi Gras culture and honors her heritage in her use of materials and wild color palette, mining it for its innate ability to transcend the ordinary. Blainey's focus includes sculpture, painting, drawing and video and performance pieces.

Brooke Howell

Brooke Howell

Brooke Howell is a multi-media artist and sculptor that creates soulful, whimsical character-based artworks. She commands a range of traditional and modern mediums including clay, bronze, silicone, resin, foam, and digital sculpting/3D printing.

Carol Peebles

Carol Peebles

The work of Carol Peebles focuses on portraits and figures, drawn from life, to celebrate the people in her immediate environment.

Chad Serhal

Chad Serhal

Chad Serhal grew up in north central Indiana and northeast Kentucky. Coming from music, film and then cartooning background, his work centers around the collaged recycling of materials and information (printed, video, and sound).

Chicory Miles

Chicory Miles

Chicory Miles moved to New Orleans at the age of fourteen. Her work has been exhibited has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including Ireland, Italy, Austria, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Berkeley, Mobile, and New Orleans.

Dave Hotstream

Dave Hotstream

Dave Hotstream is a professional illustrator who has produced work for The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, The U.S. Peace Corps, and Wizards of The Coast/Magic The Gathering.

Garth Swanson

Garth Swanson

Garth studied at the University of New Hampshire and teaches Advanced Still Life Oil Painting at the Academy.

Gus Hoffman

Gus Hoffman

Gus has shown his work all over the country; most notably in Philadelphia, New York, and New Orleans. His most recent solo show was at the Blue House in New Orleans. Most days you can find Gus somewhere around Bayou St. John painting on site.

Hazel Tebbe-Crump

Hazel Tebbe-Crump

Hazel Tebbe-Crump is a visual artist native to New Orleans and NOCCA alumnus.

Heidi Mortensen

Heidi Mortensen

Heidi is a mixed-media sculpture and installation artist.

Helen Reed

Helen Reed

Helen Reed is a passionate local photographer and educator specializing in portraiture. Helen’s commitment to both her craft and her students continues to shape her artistic path and the community around her.‍

John Stephens

John Stephens

John Stephens is an accomplished art instructor and artist with a deep commitment to making art accessible and meaningful for all.

Jonathan Hodge

Jonathan Hodge

Jonathan's themes often reflect the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity, perhaps best illustrated by his paintings of Hurricane Katrina that devastated his hometown of New Orleans. He believes not only in the power of art, but its ability to move people.

Jono Goodman

Jono Goodman

Through printmaking and painting Jono’s work has been shown across the globe and is a part of private collections worldwide.

Kaori Maeyama

Kaori Maeyama

Kaori Maeyama is an urban landscape painter born and raised in Fukuoka, Japan. A New Orleans resident since 1994, she worked as a focus puller and a digital audio editor before devoting herself to analog image making.

Kathleen Matthews

Kathleen Matthews

Kathleen Matthews is a New Orleans native. She concentrates on oil painting, mainly still life and interiors. Her work includes realism, impressionism, and alla prima.

Kathryn Agnes Baczeski

Kathryn Agnes Baczeski

Kathryn Agnes Baczeski is a visual artist originally hailing from Southbury, Connecticut. She earned her BFA in Sculpture with a concentration in Ceramics from the University of Connecticut and earned her MFA from Indiana University - Bloomington in 2016.

Lyle Colombo

Lyle Colombo

Louisiana native Lyle Colombo paints portraits, landscapes, and works of abstract realism in oil on panel using traditional techniques. She continually seeks new ways to make representational painting, particularly the figure, relevant to the contemporary world.

Nell Tilton

Nell Tilton

Nell Curtis Tilton is a New Orleans native who has been immersed in the visual arts all of her adult life. Experimenting with materials and subject matter, she is continually building knowledge from her explorations and observations. Intuitiveness and response are the essence and joy of her process.

Nicole Charbonnet

Nicole Charbonnet

Nicole's paintings are very textural and built up over long periods of time. The superimposition of textures, images, words, loose, watery washes of paint and veils of translucent fabric or paper, creates a visual threshold in her work which is something to look at as well as to look through.

Nurhan Gokturk

Nurhan Gokturk

Nurhan Gokturk is a multidisciplinary artist and urban designer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Nurhan immigrated to New York City at the age of three. His projects have been featured worldwide.

Patti Adams

Patti Adams

Patti Adams is a professional artist and musician who has lived and worked in New Orleans since 1982. Her work is defined by her wide-ranging interests in calligraphy, gilding, painting in watercolor and oils, book illustration, and color theory.

Peter Frauenfelder

Peter Frauenfelder

Peter Frauenfelder is a visual artist, sign painter, musician and native San Franciscan who has lived in New Orleans since early 2020. Since a teenager, Peter has worked in the arts and education with a focus on fine art, mentorship, and community development.

Phoebe Grace

Phoebe Grace

Phoebe is a sculpture and mixed media artist new to the New Orleans area. She is excited to continue teaching, learning, and creating with others at NOAFA.

Rebecca Madura

Rebecca Madura

Rebecca earned Bachelor Degrees from University of Texas at Austin in both Fine Arts and Liberal Arts as well as a post-graduate certificate in Non-Profit Management. She has a Master of Liberal Arts from Tulane University.

Reid Nicholls

Reid Nicholls

Reid Nicholls is a ceramic artist and sculptor whose body of work uses symbolic imagery paired with figurative elements to create abstract forms that are hand-built and wheel thrown.

Richard Vallon

Richard Vallon

Richard Vallon Jr. was born and raised in New Orleans. A graduate of ASU with a BFA (photography), he has enjoyed teaching photography since 1981. He has taught the UNO Metro College photo classes and classes at Lakeside Camera since 2004.

Sara Madandar

Sara Madandar

Sara Madandar is an Iranian multi-disciplinary artist and educator who explores migration and the human experience of living between cultures, using the aesthetics of language, clothing, and bodies to study the complexities of cross-cultural experiences.

Sara Nyquist

Sara Nyquist

Sara Nyquist is a multidisciplinary artist living in New Orleans. She taught this summer in our Fine Arts Summer Camp, and she now joins our faculty.

Zona Wainwright

Zona Wainwright

Zona blends natural colors into undefined forms that tend to please the eye and tantalize the viewer's interpretation.

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