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The Allure of Summer

By Matt Ross

When I was a kid, my family spent our summers in the Catskill Mountains in New York State. My days were spent at camp and the nights and weekends with friends and family. We weren’t rich and this wasn’t fancy, but it was so important to me that every year…

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The Journey of Black Artists in America

By Matt Ross

Over the last ten plus years, I have put in my 10,000 hours to better understand what drives artists to do what they do and how to create a school that teaches people to have fun and make compelling artwork. Along the way, I have also learned about the unique…

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Building a Painting

By Matt Ross

Some of my favorite contemporary paintings are in many ways more than just paintings. Quite often they are collages, or assemblages of materials of unrelated objects that help to make the finished artworks look more complex than the simple flat finish created by a typical painting. For example, Zach Harris…

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