Summer Highlights 2023

“Art is the proper task of life.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

A towering German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, composer and, at times, a troubled and blinded visionary.

Learning together in the studio necessarily spills over into the rest of everyday life. That’s how it must be.

Summer 2023 has brought amazing encounters with our huge family of amazing students—new, continuing, and returning!

Enjoy these highlights as we celebrate those students advancing through the studio, or graduating from our program to enter higher institutions of learning, or receiving their degrees, or getting married, or growing older and staying healthy through soulful living and ongoing creative practice.

Come build community and creative life with us! We’ve been waiting for you!

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All Get Out

Lynda joins Ana at Sandy Hook, NJ, for field sketching

Lil’ Master

Michaela learns to restore a watercolor piece by Ana

Art Rocks!

Alex & Ana sketching fossils at the 2023 NJ Fossil Show

Meditation

AAHP Instructor Jill Marie during a quiet moment in the studio

Artists at Work

Tommy & Ana take a break from working in the studio, where he finished three exquisite pieces in color pencil.

Saturdaze (2023)

Saturdaze (2023). Color pencil on paper. One of three pieces completed in studio by Tommy Valenti.

Kindness Moves the World

The Patanwalas treat Ana to a gracious birthday dinner in May

Double-Trouble

Ana celebrates Audrey’s (left) winning admission to The School of Visual Arts alongside her twin sister and fellow artist Rae, of the Pratt Institute, also a fellow graduate of our studio.

Grrrowl

Our art student and junior staff member Ayushi chooses University of Florida!

Friends Forever

Tess and Ana doll up!

Speechless

Nicole & Keving get married!

She Did It!

Ana and Dee celebrate Dee’s college diploma in 3D Animation, Pratt Institute

Never Forget

Students who have moved away often make surprise return visits to the studio, as with the Giang Duong family

Philosophizing at the Beach

Lauren and Ana again spent long hours at Sandy Hook talking about learning, scholarship, invention, and living life as art

Caring for Each Other

For nearly two decades, Peter and his family have been sharing creative life with Ana in and beyond the studio.

Divine

It was a great honor to see Aarohi bring the house down with her classical Indian dance at her 2023 Arangetram.

Teacher to Teacher

After taking Ana’s watercolor class in studio, Ruth then taught Ana the basics of standup paddleboarding!

Olga gifts Ana sunflowers

Olga, a computer engineer in college, will study abroad this year. She chose Florence, cradle of all that we teach here in the studio, so that she can continue to follow her artistic pursuits!

A Family of Giants in So Many Ways

From L to R: Dad Spencer, son Janu, Mom Marisha (center) and son Jai, visiting Ana in the studio before the boys set out for college. Janu is a rising freshman and Jai is a rising Junior, both in IT, while also pursuing the natural sciences and the arts. Congrats, guys! You are awesome! Come visit us again in the studio sooner than later!

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