part-time program

fall classes: NOW OPEN

FULL Monday evenings - Portrait Fundamentals (Austin): Sept. 23rd - Nov. 11th. 6:00-8:30pm.

Tuesday evenings - GLAFA Core Curriculum (Patrick): Sept. 24th - Nov. 19th. 6:30 - 9:00pm.

Wednesday evenings - Figure Drawing (Ben) : Sept. 25th - Nov. 13th. 6:00-8:30 pm.

Thursday evenings - GLAFA Core Curriculum (Ben): Sept. 26th - Nov. 21st. 6:30 - 9:00pm.

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youth program- art academy of duluth

drawing and painting fundamentals

ages 10-18.

fall classes: NOW OPEN

Thursdays: 6:00 - 8:00pm. Sept. 26th - Nov. 14th.

Saturdays: 10:00am - 12:00pm. Sept. 28th - Nov. 16th.

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full-time program

upcoming class is now full.

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our instructors.

Jeffrey T Larson

co-founder / instructor

…was born in 1962 in Two Harbors, Minnesota and grew up in the Twin Cities. Jeffrey has been trained in the manner of the Old Masters at the prestigious Atelier Lack, a studio/school whose traditions and training methods reach back through impressionism and the 19th centuries French academies. He followed his four-year formal training with museum study in the United States and abroad.

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Brock Larson

co-founder / instructor

…(b. 1991) first began drawing at a very early age under the guidance of his father, Jeffrey T. Larson as well as his grandfather, Marvin Espe. He started his approach to academic practice in high school with Charles Bargue plates, master copies, and cast drawings before moving to Minneapolis to pursue a formal education at the Atelier Program of Fine Art, where he studied full time for five years alongside attending workshops.

Patrick Glander

assistant instructor / graduate student

…is a recent graduate of GLAFA and is now an assistant instructor at the school. He is a believer that a painter is eternally a student of nature and of the great artists of the past. He hopes to extend this reverence to students, guiding their learning. He is represented by Collins Galleries. 


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the ruben’s project.

The creation of an imaginative painting led on alternating years by directors Jeffrey and Brock Larson with the collaborative assistance of that years graduating class. This initial piece, which was led by Jeffrey, commemorates GLAFA’S first graduating class. To learn more click on the link below.


 student’s work



GLAFA

810 W 3rd St
Duluth, MN 55806

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