Learn Painting & Fine Art in New York City

Honest level: Beginner -> Professional — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Masters & lineage

• Jacob Collins

Schools in New York City

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Art Students League of New York
  Atelier-style painting classes (full-time and ongoing)
  An independent Manhattan art school offering open-enrolment atelier studio classes in painting, drawing and sculpture on flexible monthly terms, with full-time studio options letting students study under a chosen instructor at their own pace.
  https://www.artstudentsleague.org/
• Grand Central Atelier
  Core Program (Drawing Year, Painting Year and advanced study)
  A Queens-based classical-realist atelier whose full-time multi-year Core Program progresses from cast and figure drawing through grisaille and full-palette figure painting, meeting Monday-Friday from September to May.
  https://grandcentralatelier.org/
• National Academy of Design
  School of Fine Art studio classes
  A historic New York artists' honorary organisation with a fine-art school offering studio-based classes in drawing, painting and printmaking; note its degree-granting school has operated intermittently, so multi-year credentialing should be confirmed directly.
  https://nationalacademy.org/

The credential

Atelier Diploma in Classical Drawing & Painting (multi-year) · Certifying body: Atelier diploma / Accademia di Belle Arti (no single global body)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Painting & Fine Art

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.