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Florence Academy of Art

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Sep 16, 2026

Wells WrightGUEST
7:15
I almost went to art school right out of high school.
Wells WrightGUEST
7:18
I almost went to the Florence Academy of Art and I was weighing, hey, do I want to go the art path or do I want to go the traditional route? Ultimately decided, you know, I want the college experience.
Wells WrightGUEST
7:30
Went and got a finance degree, got into insurance.
Wells WrightGUEST
7:34
Put my head down and, you know, enjoyed living in Chattanooga, but built a really great insurance career.
Eric RhodesHOST
32:57
They're not coming to your workshop yet.
Eric RhodesHOST
33:00
What's your best advice on how to give yourself a good drawing education? Let's say you don't have access to go to the Florence Academy of Art or you don't have those kinds of tools.
Eric RhodesHOST
33:16
Where do you
Marc AndersonGUEST
33:16
begin? So just drawing from life is going to be your best teacher.
Simon RenshawHOST
1:02
So how did you become acquainted with the kind of master painter or maestro that you are studying under currently?
Rolf HellemGUEST
1:10
Yeah, so I moved here and started at the Florence Classical Art Academy, not Florence Academy of Art.
Rolf HellemGUEST
1:23
and uh as a cool school uh very focused on composition and uh constructive drawing uh constructive kind of the constructive approach rather than sight size um i went there for the kind of purpose of studying composition um and then uh i met sergey chubishko um through that school and he ended up breaking off uh from there after two years of me being there and uh So he started his own place called Chiara Scudier.
Rolf HellemGUEST
1:57
And I went there because it seemed a little bit more in line with what I wanted to do.

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