Instructors

Lyn Hill Taylor

Founder, Director, and Artist in Residence of Abbey Art Works.
Wrote and teaches AAW Signature class - Leonardo's Legacy: Painting, Science, and the Life of the Soul.
Students learn that they possess all that it takes to be able to express themselves in paint.

Artist, Writer, Teacher
One of the most influential and respected pastel artists in the country.

Visit www.alanflattmann.com for more info.

Phillip Sage

Master Printmaker teaches Copperplate Etching in our new printmaking studio replete with full bed etching press.
Join us to learn and work in our new printmaking studio replete with full bed etching press.

Robert LaBranche

Chryl Casso Corizzo

Like her father, Larry Casso, who owned and operated the Baton Rouge Fine Arts Academy for 49 years, Chryl teaches the old master’s method and works in a variety of mediums, including watercolor, acrylics, pastel and egg tempera.
Her work has been accepted and exhibited in shows sponsored by the Louisiana Watercolor Society, the National Acrylic Painter’s Association, the New Orleans Art Association, and the St. Tammany Art Association, as well as the Mississippi Watercolor Society and the Louisiana Artist Guild’s River Road Show.

Adrian Deckbar

She has an MFA in Painting from Tulane University, an MA in Painting from San Francisco State University, and a BA in Painting from University of Louisiana at Lafayette
She has served on the faculty of Tulane University, The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, The Bascom Art Center, and Vermont College of Norwich University. She maintains studios in New Orleans and Leslie, AR.
Her work is included in many public and private, and corporate collections in the US and abroad.

Billie Bourgeois

Artist and Teacher
Making marks with any medium is a very natural instinct for Billie.
She is interested in responding to her subjects rather than producing representations of them.