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| Type | Private Art School |
|---|---|
| Established | 1976 |
Academic staff | Jordan Sokol & Amaya Gurpide, Artistic Directors |
| Students | 35 full-time (Winter 2024) |
| Location | , U.S. |
| Campus | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Nickname | Lyme Academy |
| Website | www |
The Lyme Academy of Fine Arts is an art school in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
The Lyme Academy was founded in 1976 by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler as a figurative academy for the teaching of sculpture, figure drawing, Illustration and painting dedicated to the fine arts. [1] The school offered a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, illustration and drawing, as well as post-baccalaureate and a three-year certificate programs.
BFA degrees were first awarded in 1992, and between 2014 and 2019 the academy was affiliated with the University of New Haven. [2] Under that agreement, Lyme kept ownership of the campus and its own Board of Trustees; New Haven acquired the academic degree programs. [3] The business plan underlying that cooperation was that 200 students would enroll at the academy, a goal that was never reached; according the Michael Thomas Duffy, chair of the academy's board in 2021, the academy enrolled about 120 students at most. [2] In 2019, "the University of New Haven discontinued degree-granting academic offerings". [4] New Haven president Steven H. Kaplan said that at the time the affiliation with Lyme Academy would add a fine arts degree to the university, but the academy struggled to get enrollment figures up (with 139 students for the fall of 2017, and 122 in August 2018) [3]
After a few difficult years, the academy hired new staff and a new artistic director Jordan Sokol, and saw about 120 students enroll for the summer term of 2021. At the time it had a budget of $1.657 million. [5] The board planned to return to the earlier goals of the academy and adopted a manifesto for its reboot, including "adhering to the philosophy of Chandler, who believed artists needed to learn the fundamentals of figurative art ... in small classes with a high teacher to student ratio." They hoped to enroll 10 full-time students in the fall of 2021, and possibly 15 in the spring of 2022. Tuition for full-time core students was set at $9,600 per year. In addition, the academy planned to offer perhaps two dozen workshops annually, as well as four weekly part-time classes. [5]
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