New York Academy of Art

The New York Academy of Art or the Graduate School of Figurative Art is an American private, not-for-profit art university, located at 111 Franklin Street in the Manhattan borough of New York City. The school was founded in 1979 by the painter, Francis Cunningham, Stuart Pivar, a chemist and art collector and Barney Hodes, a sculptor. It offers instruction in figurative arts and art history. The school provides continuing-education opportunities as well as a degree-path curriculum. On successful completion of a two-year program, it bestows on qualified students the Master of Fine Arts degree with concentrations in drawing, painting and sculpture.