Visit the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
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| Web sites (including ours) only go so far in helping you consider
which art colleges, or art schools you may be interested in attending.
To get a live and in-person
feel for them, you should visit their campus.
If you love to draw, paint, or sculpt
representational art, we invite you to visit the Lyme Academy
College of Fine Arts, distinguished
amongst
art colleges, as
the sole fine-arts-only school
in New England. We are a small, intimate community of artists who
are fully engaged in creating figurative art, and our facilities are designed
to engage the creative process and enhance your art making. Check
our new Foundation Studios, Café, Senior Studios,
and Gallery space.
View the new facilities.
During your time here we will do our best to
allow you to join our
classes, speak to our students, and faculty, review your Portfolio,
and let you talk with Student Services (housing), and Financial
Aid.
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| A visit to our campus will make it easier to more accurately
compare the Lyme Academy College of
Fine Arts to other representational art schools or
colleges you may be considering. Yes,
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| Location - We are at Exit 70, off
Route 95 North/South. Follow the signs.
 Old Lyme is a charming, quiet community which offers the advantages of easy
access to such leading art centers as New York and Boston combined with life
in one of the most beautiful, unspoiled areas in America. Since the turn
of the century, Old Lyme has been a colony for painters. The luminosity of
the Lyme landscape first attracted artists because of its resemblance to
the light and landscape painted by the Impressionists in France, and it soon
became a center for the American Impressionists. The early Lyme artists met
at the home of Florence Griswold, now the Griswold Museum, just a short distance
from the 1817 John Sill House, now housing the galleries and administrative
offices for the Lyme Academy Old Lyme is surrounded by possibly the most
varied and beautiful countryside in southern New England. It is located on
the unspoiled Connecticut River estuary, with its vast tidal marshes and
sparkling tributaries. These combined with the surrounding glacial hills
and forest offer a challenging range of artistic opportunity.  With its proximity to both New York and Boston, as well as to the major collections
held by Yale University, the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Lyman Allyn Museum, The
New Britain Museum of American Art, and others, the College's location offers
particular advantages for the study of art and it presents a sensibility and
range of visual opportunities, beyond that of many art colleges and
art schools in the country.
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