The academy bears the name Real Academy of Art and is located in the US state of Colorado and is witnessing an increasing demand from Americans wishing to learn arts in the Arab and Eastern way.
The academy was founded by the Iraqi immigrant to the United States, Ali Ghassan, who told Sky News Arabia that this academy had been his dream since he was in Iraq, but the political circumstances in his country prevented this dream from being realized.
Ghassan added that he was born in the province of Babil in Iraq, and studied fine arts, then taught them at the universities of Babylon and Kufa, before he got the opportunity to study art in Italy and Russia, then moved to Lebanon for some time to work until he settled in the United States.
He added that he found an opportunity in America to realize his dream, so in 2014 he established the first Arab Academy for Art Education in the United States.
He explained that the academy has an administrative team headed by him and includes 7 academic specialists in the arts, and has obtained all legal educational licenses in force for educational institutions in the United States.
Ghassan said that this is the first time that an Arab person establishes an Arab academy to teach arts in the United States, where it is customary for Arabs to go to America and Western countries to learn and study arts from them, but what is new in what he did is for an Arab to establish an entity that works to teach Western children to arts in the Arabic way and oriental.
And he stressed that he had not imagined the size of the success and popularity achieved by the academy, as it had become a destination for those wishing to learn the arts from Americans who flocked to it from different states, and the American media also highlighted it more than once.
Regarding what distinguishes this academy, Ghassan said:
- Interested in teaching in the footsteps of the greats of art as part of the revival of the ancient heritage of art in the world.
- Recognized by the World Heritage Revival Organization interested in the arts Art Renewal Center.
- In it, the student learns how to be a professional in art in order to be productive, that is, it takes care of the practical, productive side, not theorizing.
- State-registered and recognized by the US government to academically grant bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
- The curriculum of the study does not follow a specific artist, but rather follows scientific rules, where the student is not trained in a single method, but in mastering visual illusion to achieve the goal, which is three-dimensional, i.e. what is called the study of the visual language without following an artist.
- It works to teach the arts of the Renaissance and beyond, the arts of the current era, the arts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the Italian and Russian schools of oriental arts, which means reviving the global artistic and human heritage again, through implementation, training and experimentation.
- The academy offers educational art courses that combine painting and sculpture, and is considered the main pillar of artistic work.
- Capable of absorbing, refining and developing talents and forming theorists, historians and researchers in the arts, it attracts those interested and directs their ambition to have their own presence in the world of human arts.
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