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  • FLORENCE School
    OF
    FINE ARTS

    a contemporary and dynamic program of art production that offers accredited courses in studio fine art, art history, Italian studies & humanities.

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  • Come up to Florence

    have a life changing feel at the Florence School

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  • Run into great works of Art

    Florence has more fine art per square foot than any other city in the world

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Studying at the Florence School will be one of the about rewarding experiences you will ever take. Our innovative program is designed to take full advantage of all this amazing metropolis has to offer using Florence itself as the laboratory for an accurate cultural experience.

means to study at the florence school

Bookish Semester, Bookish Year, Summertime Studies. J-Term, Maymester, Post Bac. Receive college credit for your studies abroad.

Location

The Florence Schoolhouse is located in the heart of the city's historical eye in the erstwhile house of Giorgio Vasari, 1 the most of import renaissance artist, writer and builder.

Housing

Students live in independent apartments offer the chance to become immersed in a vibrant city with direct access to the unparalleled resource that Florence has to offer.

  • Letterpress

    Students apply vintage wooden type and decorations with rare presses creating hand fabricated artists book, broadsides and big calibration posters.

  • Graphic Novels/Comix/Zines

    Create the gimmicky form of graphic novels/comix every bit a unique medium of advice through the graphic narrative: Blueprint, Draw, Impress, Publish.

  • Wet Plate Collodion Photography

    Using silver and light acquire the magical procedure of making photographs on glass plates.

  • Contemporary Hybrid Processes

    Work in an environment of cantankerous-disciplinary collaboration supporting both traditional practice and contemporary hybrid experimentation.

"Information technology was such an amazing experience and I couldn't accept designed a meliorate program. Italy is like a second home to me and I feel more than aware of Italia's touch on the world now as a result. I as well now feel more than inspired to exist creative in my studies and in life. It was the perfect and necessary add-on to my liberal arts education."

"It was the perfect program for me, I loved information technology. I'd go up, take a cappuccino, go to the studio and pigment, go become some lunch, go dorsum to the studio and paint some more, take a interruption, go and look at some art, go home and make some dinner. Ya, it does not get any amend than this."

"My overall experience was aught but positive. I am not an fine art student, but I felt at habitation in the studio. Everyone was encouraging and helpful in letting me express my inventiveness. I experience confident in my abilities in the studio now, which is something I knew nothing about prior to my experience."

"Nosotros developed a close human relationship with our teachers. They had answers to any questions almost Florence, traveling, the linguistic communication... I am happy that the program had limited enrollment, it was as close to a personal studio in Florence as you lot could get, amazing. This also meant we got personal attention pertaining to our work, every step of the way."

"My flat was astonishing and I felt like I was truly living in Italy and non just a pupil studying abroad. My apartment was furnished and ready the day I moved in. The location was perfect walking altitude from my school and major parts of the metropolis without existence caught in the middle of everything."

"I experience similar a unlike person, although I can't pinpoint how I accept inverse(also soon). Going outside of your comfort zone, not speaking the language, meeting new people who take a completely different lifestyle, and being in an unfamiliar identify I recall shows your true colors so to speak and shows how adaptable we are as humans. I oasis't figured out a way to get dorsum simply I am seriously planning on it."

Experience Florence

Florence is an incredibly beautiful city often called "the birthplace of the modernistic earth". It offers an amazing awareness of "seeing" and feeling": with the sheer magnificence of the Duomo, the incredible collections of the Uffizi, Galleria dell'Accademia, the frescoes in the Capella Brancacci, and literally hundreds of smaller sites, churches and palaces which contain several centuries of an electrifying history and culture.