CAROLE ROBB
(Program Director and Painting Instructor)Carole Robb is Head of Atelier (Painting) at the New York Studio School. She has taught at the Slade School of Fine Art, Camberwell School of Art & the Royal College, London, UK. A winner of the Rome Prize in Painting (1980), a Fulbright Scholar, and member of the National Academy, New York; Ms. Robb was born in Scotland and studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Reading England (MFA 1979). She studied with Sir Terry Frost. Robb has worked in Rome, Venice, and London and currently lives in New York, where she is represented by the Robert Steele Gallery. Her work is in both private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Imperial War Museum, London.
www.carolerobb.net
JOSE GRAVE DE PERALTA
(Drawing Instructor)Jose Grave de Peralta studied Fresco painting at the Spinelli Institute, Florence and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has a Master's degree in Spanish Literature from University of Delaware and is fluent in Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese. His Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Classics is from St. John's College, Maryland. Peralta has extensive experience of teaching drawing and art history at the University of Miami, and he originally came to Rome as drawing professor for that same school's graduate architecture program. Jose Peralta has had numerous solo exhibitions and recent shows include Galleria Impression, Cetona (Siena) and Zu Galeria, Miami. He grew up in Miami and moved to Rome in 2009, where he now lives and works.
www.otoroazul.com
FRANCES MIDDENDORF
(Drawing Instructor)Frances Middendorf has a bachelors degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and her masters from the School of Visual Arts in New York where she has also taught. Following a 15 year commercial art career working for clients such as The New York Times, Newsweek and the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at the Lincoln Center, Frances continued her learning at the New York Studio School. She came to Italy in 1997 to study with the N.Y. painter, Nicholas Carone, and decided to stay. Frances has lived in Florence, has a studio in Rome and now lives outside of Spoleto in Umbria. Frances credits her knowledge of drawing to her Father and to the NY sculptor/painter Bruce Gagnier.
ROBERTO CARACCIOLO
(Drawing Instructor)Roberto Caracciolo studied print-making at the Istituto d'Arte di Urbino, in Italy, and painting at Lacoste, in southern France, and at the New York Studio School. He has shown his painting in over twenty solo exhibitions and in group shows in New York and in Europe since 1985. Roberto Caracciolo has taught or given lectures at various Italian and American institutions in Italy such as Cornell University, Rhode Island School of Design and at Loyola University in Rome. He is currently adjunct professor at New York University in Florence, where he has been teaching two courses in drawing since 1999, and is also teaching at Temple University in Rome.
PETER BENSON MILLER
(Art Historian)An independent curator and specialist of nineteenth—century painting and sculpture and modern art from Europe and the United States, Peter Benson Miller received his Masters in Art History from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts/New York University. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Samuel F.B. Morse Fellowship from the Institute of Fine Arts, the Theodore Rousseau Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Robert Sterling Clark fellowship from Williams College. His essays have appeared in art journals and catalogues to major exhibitions. After working at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris for eight years as the coordinator of guest lectures and scholarly symposia, he curated the 2010 Philip Guston exhibition in Rome, which then traveled to the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. His future plans include a Henri Rousseau retrospective in Rome and a traveling exhibition of paintings by Stanley William Hayter. Miller has lived between Paris and Rome since 1992.
ELIZABETH ANN BUTLER
(Art Historian)Elizabeth Ann Butler received her Masters degree in Florentine Renaissance Art from Syracuse University, Florence. For over five years, Butler has developed and taught art history seminars for various universities and institutions in Florence. Her expertise in Florentine art history ranges from ancient art and antiquity to Medieval and Renaissance fine art. Butler’s interests also include the history of women, including their contributions to the art world through the ages, particularly the artistic output of women in convents.
Visiting artists and art historians have also included:
Dan Abrams
Alan Feltus
Joanne Freeman
Don Kimes
Professor Terry Kirk
Mark Pulsford
Andrea Smith
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