A Journey Towards Mastery…
Southern Atelier is ARC ApprovedSM
Program Overview
A unique method emphasizing Old Master craftsmanship
Exhibition and teaching opportunities
Exclusive studio access
Intensive drawing and painting program
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The Miano Apprenticeship is a rigorous, 4-level drawing and painting program, under the direction and training of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed for artists seeking a professional standard in their work. The skills acquired during this program may also be applied to other professions including but not limited to illustration, animation and graphic design. Students who join the Miano Apprenticeship come from all walks of life and travel in from all over the world.
The Curriculum
A two-fold course of study:
Over the course of the last decade, Southern Atelier’s Founder, Charles Miano, has developed a program of study unparalleled in the world of representational fine art. This 2-fold curriculum includes both projects and practice. In levels 1 and 2, apprentices use dry media. In levels 3 and 4 apprentices move to oil painting.
Practice:
In addition to long projects and finished works, the practice aspects of our apprenticeship curriculum takes students on a journey of learning to see, by working strictly from a live model. This course has been most effective in developing an artist’s ability to capture gesture and movement. Short to intermediate length life poses are used to enhance an artist’s faculty with the brush and develop error-free calligraphy and craftsmanship. Over time artists see tremendous improvement in capturing life accurately with style. This rigorous quick sketch, gesture study, working in Miano Method is unique among traditional ateliers. Artists will work hundreds of hours training their eye-hand coordination.
Project:
These assignments are designed specifically with the old masters in mind as apprentices complete long term drawings and paintings. Master copy work from the flat, cast drawing and painting, long pose figure and portrait drawing and painting assignments are expected to be completed with utmost diligence each month. Artists learn to communicate through a visual language in much the same way that Masters such as Michelangelo, da Vinci, Caravaggio, and Rembrandt did. In these lessons attention is given to the science and technical matters of drawing and painting.
Miano Apprenticeship Benefits
The Miano Apprenticeship is designed for those who desire to devote necessary time to develop their skill thoroughly with persistence and patience.
Southern Atelier maintains a limited number of full time apprentices to ensure concentrated one-on-one instruction from Charles Miano. These apprentices also benefit from personal studio space, gallery representation, commission opportunities through The Guild, discounts on visiting master artist workshops and teaching opportunities.
Although our program is broken into trimesters, an apprentice can join at any time although we recommend joining on the closest opening trimester. Miano’s apprentices share in this unique Renaissance-guild style experience occurring approximately 35-40 hours a week in the studio.
Our Apprenticeship program takes place at Southern Atelier year round under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano. Click here to learn more about our enrollment process and start your application.
Click below for the Application Form to Become an Apprentice
I've learned more here in 5 weeks than I have in the last 6 years.
Elizabeth Jenness BurgeAlumniI looked for a long time for a learning opportunity such as The Southern Atelier provides. I have attended other institutes of art education. [In my] experience, the Southern Atelier is on par with Ateliers in Major American and European metropolitan citys… The Southern Atelier provides instruction in a way that most life circumstances can incorporate. I have benefited greatly from the solid foundation taught at The Southern Atelier.
Mr. Charles Miano’s teachings are beautifully balanced in every sense of the word. During his lessons East meets West, the intellectual counterparts the emotional, and the effort and hard work that he demands of his students is also presented with the need to let things develop naturally. It is a refreshing and daring methodology that challenges most, if not all, art schools’ curriculums by providing real, honest and unselfish instruction to students with serious intentions in art.
Charlie Miano is a visionary. He is building a school for his community with a passion that is rare, and a generosity for his students that is even more scarce. With his skills, Charlie is tapping into a vitality within the community of students.
He is building a comprehensive program with expertise, practice, and deep understanding. Charlie is helping to reawaken interest in the fundamental visual arts, the appreciation of aesthetic beauty, and the quality of vision by transcending craftsmanship.
The Southern Atelier is emerging as a premier institution for higher learning, atelier training, and the reestablishment of legitimacy in studying from direct observation, working from life. It is the kind of school that we all should embrace.
Kerry VoslerAmbassador, Portrait Society of AmericaI have been astounded at the number of people who are moving to Florida and specifically looking for a professional classical art program… there is no doubt that the Southern Atelier has become a major school for the arts…
I wish to thank the Southern Atelier for all the hard work they put me through; in particular, I would like to single out and thank my instructor, Charlie Miano for having been instrumental in my progress. I benefit greatly from his patience and dedication.
Your dedication to the opportunity for the study of artistic skills and knowledge with fine masters is greatly appreciated.
Just a little note of appreciation for all you do to make taking a workshop there more comfortable and friendly for out of towners like me. I’m in awe of what you have done there and can’t wait ’til the next time I can come back.
You have created a space where I want to work hard and learn, surrounded by people with the kind of energy that helps make it happen for me.
I believe that my instruction in drawing and painting has been of the highest quality, which is the direct result of Charlie Miano’s commitment to excellence in art education. It has been a lifelong dream of mine to become a professional artist; and because of the opportunity that I have had to study at the Southern Atelier, that dream is becoming a reality.
EWArtist….There is no other school of this nature in the area. My student colleagues and I have made great strides in the understanding of and accomplishing the skills of a classical foundation in painting, the results of which becomes readily apparent to all who visit the school. It is without doubt that The Southern Atelier impacts and benefits this community
Charlie Miano and Southern Atelier have produced one of the best classical art programs in the country … The Atelier’s dedication to excellence and intensive instruction provides students an ideal environment to fully develop their skills. The school represents a fresh new wave of art instruction …
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