Dalvero Academy

11/18/2025

Start the new year off right - with drawing! On Jan 3 - 6, learn from illustrator/educators Margaret Hurst and Veronica (Ronnie) Lawlor during our four-day life drawing intensive at our Brooklyn studio. A Dalvero Academy tradition. Spaces are filling up! Please email us at [email protected] for more information -

01/06/2025

Happy New Year! Our annual new year life drawing workshop is here again, by popular demand. Beat the winter doldrums with us in our Brooklyn studio from Friday Feb 21st to Sunday February 23rd. See below for info or email us at [email protected].

Line, marks, color, design - get ready to start your artistic year with drawing!

06/11/2024

Dalvero Academy is a private school of drawing and illustration located in New York City. For information on classes please email dalveroinfo(at)mac.com. Thank You!

01/01/2023

Happy New Year! Start the New Year by joining us for our 2-day museum class, our annual Dalvero tradition! Register here: https://form.jotform.com/223515270553148

07/28/2021

Ready to Reimagine Drawing?
Join the Mental Canvas $100K Global Challenge!

This is an digital drawing platform that I've worked with many times in the past - it allows for intuitive drawing in dimension. Sound interesting? Click on the link to discover the platform for yourself, and even register to win the grand prize:

https://mentalcanvas.com/challenge/2021?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=144436798&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--UpyMv_dcCuWAjq94m-PHlz5TJfGaEOWpYFTfOrRR_FlQQ9IAcVQ_rsCuz0boDT1CLVXd4-_WlMAsLgLXVg5gIlLFuDA&utm_content=144436798&utm_source=hs_email

01/02/2021

Registration is OPEN!
Dalvero January 2021 online intensive
REGISTRATION LINK:

Please click the link to complete this form.

12/26/2020

DALVERO ACADEMY 2-DAY ONLINE INTENSIVE!
Registration opens on January 2 at 11am EST

Saturday January 30 and Sunday January 31

Saturday: Narrative Structure
The fundamentals of narrative: staging, pacing, and theatrics.

Sunday: Museum Research and Synthesis
Work towards a personally driven artistic studio project for 2021.

Each day will feature a morning lecture, assignment, one-on-one instruction, and a group critique.

You’ll need computer access, a sketchbook, and color and black and white mediums of your preference: pens, brushes, crayons, pastels, watercolor, markers, etc. We’ll be working with Zoom.

*This is not a life drawing class.*
All levels welcome. Class limit of 24.

REGISTRATION LINK: https://form.jotform.com/203424297299161

12/17/2020

Dalvero Holiday Zoom Party - Friday Dec 18 from 8pm - 10pm EST
All are welcome!
If you have the zoom link - pass it forward!
If you want the zoom link - email us at [email protected]
We hope to see you there!

03/19/2020

Something else of note....wow! Start researching that next project?

There's good news for all the New York City-based e-bookworms out there. The New York Public Library has an app that allows anyone with a library card (and an i

03/19/2020

Here is an article about people who visit Disneyworld multiple times that may be of particular interest to Dalvero students...something nice to think about right now.

"What you're sensitive to and trying to understand is the brilliance of the design."

If you regularly go to Disneyland three times a month, are you crazy? I talked to Imagineers, analysts and psychologists to find out.