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Founded in 1966 in Paros, Greece, the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts offering courses in the visual arts, writing and art history.

If you had three months to study art, absorb beauty, and eat well, what could you accomplish? Experience the Aegean Center and discover the joy of real education. At the Aegean Center, students develop their art skills while simultaneously experiencing Ancient Greece, the Italian Renaissance and contemporary Mediterranean life and light. Two semester-long sessions are offered each year, as well as

a series of summer workshops. The Spring Session takes place at our permanent facility on the Greek island of Paros. The white-washed houses, the wine-dark sea, the wholesome, island-grown produce... On Paros, life assumes a different pace, with ample opportunity for self-reflection. And, of course, the classical world, with its timeless ideals of truth and beauty, is never far. Immersed in this environment, our students often experience a profound shift in perspective, and their own personal relationship to the arts is strengthened. The Fall Session takes place in both Greece and Italy. It begins with a memorable four weeks in Tuscany, where our home base is the lovely 16th century Villa Rospigliosi just outside the medieval city of Pistoia. At the villa, all students participate in daily art history lectures which are enriched by guided visits to museums and historical sites in Pistoia, Florence, Pisa and Siena. There are also extended, three-day excursions to both Venice and Rome. From Rome, students leave for Athens for inspiring visits to the Parthenon, the Acropolis Museum, and the Archaeoligical Museum of Athens. The group then departs for Paros, where studio classes continue.

01/09/2026

Portrait drawing is part of the figure drawing intensive. This September 27th for two weeks. #

31/08/2026

Figure drawing workshop September 27-October 10. Two weeks of instruction will teach you to construct the figure in the Renaissance tradition.

26/08/2026

Style is the distinctive character that emerges from the choices an artist makes, what they choose to emphasize, exaggerate, omit or include.

24/08/2026

Painting as an activity changes our perception of the world. Learn to see through color and light. Come and learn to paint.

21/08/2026

Colour expresses space, distance, form, emotion, light, temperature, atmosphere and symbolic meaning. Learn how colour is a language that painters speak.

20/08/2026

Learn to draw. Join the figure drawing workshop this September.

19/08/2026

There are many ways to use paint and artists search out the method that best describes their experience with the visual world. We teach methods that span the time of the ancient Greeks to Impressionism. Once you understand how painting has changed over the centuries you have choices to describe your own vision.

17/08/2026

Using the right brain’s grasp of color and form we paint without using words. It’s one of many reasons to learn to paint.

15/08/2026

Learn to draw during a two week intensive. September 27-October 10. On a Greek island !

13/08/2026

Beautiful sculptural forms of a small church in Parikia. The whitewashed village presents a play of light and shadow everyday.

Address

The Aegean Center For The Fine Arts
Páros
84400

Website

http://www.aegeancenter.org/, http://www.aegeancenter.com/, http://aegeancenter.wordpress.com/

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