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Mission: Renaissance & Gluck Method Story
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Mission Renaissance was founded by renowned artist Larry Gluck in 1975 as a small fine art drawing and painting instruction school.
In the last 33 years it has grown to become the world's largest fine art instruction program for two reasons;
Larry Gluck's promise that his schools can teach ANYONE (kids, teens and adults) how to draw beautifully has stood the test of time.
Second, our satisfied customers/students eagerly spread news of their success in our art classes to others.
Mission Renaissance has now grown to teaching over 4,000 students every week how to draw and paint in their art instruction studios.
We exclusively teach "The Gluck Method" of art instruction, designed by Larry Gluck and perfected over the years, and this is the only method taught in our 18 art schools.
Countless others study the same method of art instruction via our Art of Drawing home study courses.
Larry Gluck - Artist and Educator
From a very early age Larry pursued his education in the fine arts. By the time he was 13 he was apprenticed to the Italian portrait master Giuseppe Trotta, an old classmate of Picasso himself.
Larry Gluck then went on to graduate from America's most prestiges art school, The New York Pratt Institute.
Larry moved to the island of St. Thomas in 1961 to paint professionally. By 1970 he had produced and sold 3,500 original works of his own art.
In 1975 Larry and his wife Sheila opened the Mission Renaissance Art School in Los Angeles to teach others the fine art of painting and drawing.
Since then the first school has grown to 18. We have opened our own art supply store to supply the very best in art supplies to our students and to you.
Larry also has created a home study course for those who are not local to our art schools, The Art of Drawing Series provides all of the fundamentals, drills, and know how to master the basics of the visual arts!
Changing the Way the World
Looks at Art Education
We are not named Mission: Renaissance because it is a nice sounding name for an art instruction school and art supply retailer.
Larry Gluck has the literal mission to help create a new renaissance in the arts.
Where this may have seemed a lofty goal back in 1975 it looks much different in 2010.
With 22 Art Schools teaching 4000+ students every week, untold thousands studying our Art of Drawing home study courses, and colleges and universities are beginning to teach "The Gluck Method" of art instruction to their art own art students!
Add our exciting plans for global expansion this mission of a new renaissance is becoming more and more a reality.
What speaks even more for our mission is our students results!
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