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Our multilingual program, inspired by the prestigious methods of European art academies, is designed to align with your artistic goals and lead you to mastery in classical drawing and painting. We offer a structured and progressive curriculum that adapts to all skill levels, located in the heart of Miami, where our space serves as a showcase for international exposure.
Benefit from personalized mentorship with experienced instructors trained at top European academies, ensuring your artistic growth. In our Intensive Drawing and Painting programs, you will join a multicultural community of artists in a shared studio space that fosters inspiration and collaboration.
Enjoy the flexibility of our program, tailored to fit your schedule and learning pace, whether you are balancing other commitments or pursuing full-time artistic endeavors. Our graduates have achieved remarkable progress, showcasing our tradition of excellence.
Explore MIFA's Atelier Program with flexible options for Full-Time, Half-Time, and Part-Time commitments.
Full-Time Program:
Half-Time Program:
Part-Time Program:
MIFA understands time constraints and introduces a new program tailored for those unable to commit to Full or Half-Time schedules. Perfect for students desiring serious drawing and painting training with a one-day commitment each week!
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
Tuition Fee: Term $3,300.00
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Tuition Fee: Term $2,200.00
To register for the term
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Tuition Fee: Term $1,375.00,
To register for the term
Please contact us
MIFA's drawing and painting classes.
Our step-by-step systematic progression ensures skill acquisition and task completion, with the curriculum tailored for individual progress. The atelier system, a unique advantage, allows beginners and intermediates to share studio space with advanced students and working artists, gaining insights, critiques, and inspiration.
Our curriculum unfolds over six terms, featuring three major programs: Intensive Drawing, Intermediate, and Advanced Painting. Graduates can further specialize in advanced portraiture, still life, or figure painting, creating a comprehensive and personalized artistic education.
Explore the fundamentals of drawing with MIFA's Intensive Drawing Program, meticulously designed to enhance your artistic skills. Delve into Geometric Shapes Drawing, mastering principles of drawing, value scale, and tone relationships. Progress to Copying Drawing Plates, strengthening your ability to reproduce two-dimensional forms and preparing for three-dimensional subjects.
Engage in Figure Drawing Master Copies, replicating the techniques of 19th Century artists to refine your drawing skills. Transition to Charcoal Cast Drawing, where you'll draw plaster casts, applying the sight-size method and creating depth and atmosphere.
The culmination is Figure Drawing, three-hour sessions with a nude model, refining anatomical accuracy and artistic beauty.
By completing this program, you'll master life drawing, commanding shapes, value relationships, form, and proportion with confidence.
MIFA's Intermediate Program, a bridge from drawing to painting. Strengthen your grasp of color mixing, temperature, depth, edges, and atmosphere in theory and practice. Weekly anatomy and perspective classes add depth to your understanding.
Advanced Figure Drawing: Apply Cast Drawing techniques to the human figure in extended poses, refining your skills in long-pose figure drawing.
Geometric Shapes Grisaille Painting: Introduce yourself to oil painting principles using only white, black, and umber, laying the foundation for your painting expertise.
Limited Palette Cast Painting: Immerse yourself in oil painting as you paint plaster casts with a limited palette, gaining mastery in values, temperatures, and atmospheric effects.
Limited Palette Still Life Painting: Explore the world of painting with objects and fruits, progressing from single items to compositions, building skills crucial for figure painting.
Limited Palette Figure Painting: Apply acquired knowledge to a long pose project, mastering value relationships, temperatures, and background-figure dynamics using a limited palette.
Full Palette Figure Painting: Learn the vibrant world of color and temperature using a full palette. Master the complex interplay between skin tones and the surrounding environment, elevating your skills to new heights.
Still Life Painting: Enhance your ability to recreate a variety of surface textures, deepen your understanding of form, and refine your sense of atmosphere, color, and composition. Start with a five-object composition using a full palette and advance to more challenging light background compositions.
Portrait Painting: Delve into the art of portraiture, capturing the unique characteristics of your subjects in head-and-shoulders compositions. Explore the nuances of head planes, anatomy, facial features, and skin tones through frontal and ¾ views. Elevate your artistic expertise with MIFA's Advanced Painting Program, tailored to guide you toward mastery.
Studied at the prestigious Angel Academy of Art Florence. Inspired by a diverse and large number of sources, she seeks to synthesize mythology, culture, universal ideas and beliefs with her subject’s personal stories and psychology.
Milixa's paintings are plenty of iconic images with a narrative that transcends time and culture.
For more information about Milixa: www.milixamoron.com
The ARC is the foremost and only vetting service for representational art schools ensuring that the teaching curricula and quality of teacher and student work meet our strict standards to become ARC Approved™.
As representational painter, Elkin is very interested in human emotions, people, and the truth and beauty that lies beneath every single object and form. His main motivation as a painter is to show other people the way “he sees” life, around and inside him. He moved to Florence-Italy in 2010, to be part of an amazing community of artis
As representational painter, Elkin is very interested in human emotions, people, and the truth and beauty that lies beneath every single object and form. His main motivation as a painter is to show other people the way “he sees” life, around and inside him. He moved to Florence-Italy in 2010, to be part of an amazing community of artists, and learning from great painters such as Angel Ramiro Sanchez and Hunter Eddy.
Winter Term January 10 – April 6, 2023
Spring Term April 11 – July 7, 2023
Fall Term August 22 – November 10, 2023
Winter Term November 21 – March 1, 2024
MIFA WILL REMAIN OPEN DURING THE SUMMER TRIMESTER, WE WILL OFFER A GREAT VARIETY OF WORKSHOPS.
FOR STUDENTS WHO WANT TO ATTEND CLASSES DURING THE SUMMER THE PAYMENT WILL BE IN A MONTHLY BASIS (EVERY 4 WEEKS)
Mon | 09:30 am – 04:30 pm | |
Tue | 09:30 am – 04:30 pm | |
Wed | 09:30 am – 04:30 pm | |
Thu | 09:30 am – 04:30 pm | |
Fri | 09:30 am – 04:30 pm | |
Sat | 09:30 am – 12:30 pm | |
Sun | Closed |
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