Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with internationally recognized classical oil painter Sadie Valeri, exploring the failure of the American art establishment to teach basic artistic craftsmanship and her own self-taught journey to become America’s premier teacher of realistic painting and drawing in the classical tradition dating back to the Romans.
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Sadie Valeri is an internationally recognized classical oil painter based in San Francisco, California. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and Europe and featured in dozens of periodicals and books. She has been invited to judge several national art competitions and has been a faculty member at the Portrait Society of America's annual conference and a headlining presenter at the F.A.C.E Figurative Art Conference. Her work is in prestigious collections including the New Britain Museum of American Art.
Sadie Valeri earned her BFA in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. She continued her education with living masters of classical realism including Ted Seth Jacobs, Juliette Aristides, and Michael Grimaldi; Studio Escalier in France; and the Hudson River Fellowship with Jacob Collins.
As founder and director of Sadie Valeri Atelier, an art school for adults, Sadie teaches old master painting and drawing skills to hundreds of students each year. Through this experience she developed a renowned ARC-accredited program for teaching traditional skills to contemporary artists, and gained a reputation as one of the leading instructors of painting and drawing in the classical tradition in the United States.
See Sadie's available work at these galleries:
Atlanta, GA
Milwaukee, WI and Watch Hill, RI