New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts

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The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts is a fine arts school in New Orleans, Louisiana.

New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1978 by Auseklis Ozols, inspired by the model of Thomas Eakins and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The goal was to gather together artists and aspiring artists and teach Classical techniques, stressing working from life. Ozols was joined at the Academy's inception by Dell Weller. Artist and philantropist Dorothy J. Coleman helped establish the Academy as a stable institution, and it was incorporated as a non-profit institution in 1980.

The Academy has teaching facilities, a gallery (locally known as the "Academy Gallery") and a framing shop, on Magazine Street in Uptown New Orleans.