Faculty

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Jered Woznicki

Jered Woznicki is the Assistant Director and Instructor at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence. Born in Chicago, he met Michael John Angel while studying at the American Academy of Art, from which he graduated in 1994. One of Mr Woznicki’s paintings remains in the permanent collection of the American Academy of Art alongside those of other notable graduates such as Scott Burdick and Richard Schmid.

Jered Woznicki’s art has won many awards throughout the United States as well as in Italy. In 1999, he was awarded a medal in the prestigious Florence Biennale, an international assembly of over 500 recognized artists. Mr Woznicki’s work is to be found in private and public collections in Europe, North America and China. Although busy with teaching, he works with Mr Angel on large scale commissions and on his own figure and still life paintings.

Martinho Isidro Correia

Martinho Correia brings twenty years of experience as both an artist and educator to the Angel Academy. While attending the University of Calgary, Mr. Correia studied under esteemed Canadian still-life painter John Hall. Upon completeing his B.F.A., Mr. Correia worked freelance in a variety of positions, including graphic artist, mural and backdrop painter, set designer and comic-book artist. In the early 1990’s, he completed a B.Ed. in Art Education from the University of British Columbia and, soon after, began his professional teaching career. During his years as art teacher with the Calgary Catholic School System, Mr. Correia taught art to children at all grade levels. Also at this time, he instructed adult seminars, private students and curated a number of student art shows. Mr. Correia first studied with Michael John Angel in 1992 and eventually moved to Florence, Italy, to complete his studies at the Angel Academy of Art, where he now teaches painting, drawing and the Perspective programme. He holds annual summer workshops both at the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, and in Calgary, Canada.

In his studio, Martinho Correia is painting portrait and still-life commissions. Please visit his website for more examples of his work: www.martinhoart.com

Inga Loyeva

Inga Loyeva received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The New World School of the Arts, Miami, and is subsequently a graduate of the Angel Academy of Art, Florence. She has worked as a teaching assistant in both institutions, as well as offering private instruction to students who wished to advance their understanding of the principles of traditional drawing and painting.

Ms. Loyeva has exhibited her work in a range of events across Europe and America. Her most acclaimed show to date was centered on a reconstruction of Caravaggio’s Taking of Christ for the city of Odessa, Ukraine, after this masterpiece was stolen from the prestigious Museum of Western and Eastern Art.

Mandy Boursicot

Mandy Boursicot is the main drawing instructor for new entrants to the Angel Academy, Florence. She gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada, in 1999. She has been a professional artist since then, exhibiting widely in Canada and internationally. She first studied with Michael John Angel in 2008, and completed the diploma programme in 2011.