New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts

[citation needed] "The ancient disciplines of painting, sculpture and drawing have always attracted unique people with an intense awareness of their sensations through non-verbal media.

Artists working in guilds or academies have accumulated a vast wealth of information, technical as well as aesthetic, over the centuries.

The Academy believes that a reinvestigation of traditional aesthetic values forms the strongest foundation for eventual creative expression and stylistic development.

The main academy building is oriented to the compass points, enabling the painting studios to have exact north light year round.

Each term, there is typically instruction on:[citation needed] There are also life studio sessions, in which anyone may use whatever medium they prefer to draw, paint, or sculpt from a live model.