PEEKSKILL - MOST artists exhibit too young, and too often, a problem worsened to some extent by well-intentioned exhibitions like "First Look," at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, which showcases 15 artists now enrolled in Master of Fine Arts programs in Westchester, Connecticut and beyond.
The shop itself, however, adheres to the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990: all its artists are enrolled members of federally recognized tribes.
At age 18, the obviously gifted budding artist was enrolled in the school of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
During this period the artist also enrolled at the art school of Robert Bereny, an older Hungarian modernist painter.
Ms. Chicago sought admission to this crowd and, at the suggestion of the artist John Chamberlain, enrolled in auto-body school to master spray-painting.
Determined to become a fine artist, he enrolled at the Minneapolis School of Art, where he studied with Alexander Masley, a former student of Hans Hofmann in Munich.
After pursuing photography for several years and dabbling as a makeup artist, she enrolled in the Christine Valmy beauty school in Midtown Manhattan, where she found a calling in facials, later putting in time at Dr. Brad Katchen's SkinCareLab and Oasis Day Spa.
The country's only accredited trade school for comic-book artists, it enrolls students from around the world in a three-year program; well-known graduates include Amanda Conner, Tom Mandrake, Rags Morales and Timothy Truman.
If it looks a bit like student work, there's a reason: both artists are currently enrolled in Columbia's M.F.A. program.
After taking painting lessons from a marine artist, Mr. Oliveira enrolled in the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, where he earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1951 and a master's degree in 1952.
It requires that, to identify and exhibit works as being by a Native American, artists and craftsmen must be enrolled in a Native American tribe or designated by a tribe as an artisan.
