EDUCATION

1996-1998 JACOB COLLINS STUDIO/WATER STREET New York, NY
1994-1996 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN New York, NY
1994-1996 CARLOS MADRID STUDIO New York, NY
1992-1994 THE ATELIER Minneapolis, MN
1992-1994 PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ART Philadelphia, PA
1992-1994 BARNSTONE STUDIOS Coply, PA

HONORS AND AWARDS

2003 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2002 Included in the Art Renewal Center ‘Living Masters Gallery’
2000 Realism Today Competition, AMERICAN ARTIST MAGAZINE
1995 Wilder Prize for Drawing, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN New York, NY
1995 Albert Hallgarten Traveling Scholarship, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN New York, NY

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2006-2008 Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier Foster City, CA
2008 Andreeva Portrait Academy Santa Fe, NM
1999-present Gage Academy of Fine Art Seattle, WA
2000-present Started the Aristides Classical Atelier Program Seattle, WA
2004 Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art Los Angeles, CA
2004 Portrait Society of Bainbridge Island Bainbridge Island, WA

BOOKS

2008 Classical Painting Atelier, Watson-Guptill Publications, NY By J. Aristides
2008 Teach Yourself Visually, Drawing by D. Fisher and J. Robinson , Wiley Publishing, Inc Hoboken NJ
2008 Drawing the Cast, The Emulation of Aesthetic Values by L. Sawlit, Pontic Press
2006 Classical Drawing Atelier, Watson-Guptill Publications, NY By J. Aristides