Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts

Type	Private
Established	1976
Students	<80
Location	Old Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Nickname	Lyme Academy
Website	http://www.lymeacademy.edu/

The Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts is an art college in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

History

The Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts was founded in 1976 by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler as a figurative academy for the teaching of sculpture, figure drawing, Illustration and painting dedicated to the fine arts. The school offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, illustration and drawing. The college also offers post-baccalaureate and a 3-year certificate program.

The Lyme Academy College is the sole fine-arts-only art college accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and is one of the independent art colleges belonging to the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. The college is also accredited by the State of Connecticut, and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design and the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges.

Amongst private art colleges, the Lyme Academy is known for its contemporary focus on the history and tradition of representational art, centered on the study of nature and the figure. Its small student body offers a uniquely personal education. With an enrollment of less than 80 current students, the Lyme Academy College is an intimate artistic community. Ninety-five percent of classes have fewer than twenty students. The student-to-faculty ratio is fourteen to one, which facilitates an academy-based teaching philosophy not often available at other art colleges.

The Old Lyme Art Colony became an important center for the American Impressionists around the start of the 20th century, as they became attracted to the luminosity of the landscape with its resemblance to the light and landscape painted by the Impressionists in France. It is close to both New York and Boston (two hours away) as well as convenient to major visual arts collections held in Connecticut by the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the Florence Griswold Museum just down the street. The college facilitates a focus on the fine arts that is distinctive from many art colleges and schools in the country.

BFA degrees have been awarded since 1996. Many alumni of this new college have gone on to earn their MFA degrees, and one has won a Fulbright Fellowship. The faculty has many notable regular and visiting instructors.

References

External links

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Official Website

Colleges and universities in Connecticut

Public institutions	Central Connecticut State University Charter Oak State College Eastern Connecticut State University Southern Connecticut State University University of Connecticut Western Connecticut State University

Private institutions	Albertus Magnus Connecticut College Fairfield Goodwin Holy Apostles Lincoln College of New England LACFA Mitchell Paier Post Quinnipiac Rensselaer at Hartford Sacred Heart Saint Joseph Trinity University of Bridgeport University of Hartford University of New Haven Wesleyan Yale

Federal institutions	United States Coast Guard Academy

Community Colleges	Asnuntuck Capital Gateway Housatonic Manchester Middlesex Naugatuck Valley Northwestern Connecticut Norwalk Quinebaug Valley Three Rivers Tunxis

Graduate, professional, and research institutions	Berkeley Divinity School Hartford Seminary Quinnipiac School of Law Quinnipiac School of Medicine University of Connecticut Health Center University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine University of Connecticut School of Law Yale Law School Yale School of Drama Yale School of Medicine

Northeastern United States Art Colleges

AIB Cooper Union Corcoran DCAD FIT LACFA MECA MICA MassArt&Design Montserrat Paier Parsons Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Pratt RISD SMFA SVA Vesper (closed) UArts

Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design

United States:	Art Academy of Cincinnati Art Center College of Design The Art Institute of Boston California College of the Arts California Institute of the Arts Cleveland Institute of Art College for Creative Studies Columbus College of Art and Design Cooper Union Corcoran College of Art and Design Cornish College of the Arts Cranbrook Academy of Art Kansas City Art Institute Laguna College of Art and Design Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Maine College of Art Maryland Institute College of Art Massachusetts College of Art and Design Memphis College of Art Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Minneapolis College of Art and Design Montserrat College of Art Moore College of Art and Design New Hampshire Institute of Art Oregon College of Art and Craft Otis College of Art and Design Pacific Northwest College of Art Parsons The New School for Design Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Pratt Institute Rhode Island School of Design Ringling College of Art and Design San Francisco Art Institute School of the Art Institute of Chicago School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School of Visual Arts University of the Arts (Philadelphia) Watkins College of Art, Design & Film

International:	Alberta College of Art and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Burren College of Art Emily Carr University of Art and Design NSCAD University OCAD University Osaka University of Arts

Coordinates: 41°19′2″N 72°18′11″W / 41.31722°N 72.30306°W / 41.31722; -72.30306

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