{"Id":6608,"Name":"Dan Thompson","Biography":"\u003Cp\u003EDan Thompson was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC. He earned his MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several additional years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States. He has been awarded two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and has twice received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2001, Thompson won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist\u0027s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EIn 2006, Dan Thompson co-founded the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York. He has also instructed privately at Studio 126 in New York and taught at Parsons the New School for Design, the New York Academy of Art, The Art Students League of New York, and Studio Incamminati, in Philadelphia, PA. He has taught workshops in San Francisco, Seattle, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Washington, D.C, and in Italy and France. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003ESince 2002 Mr. Thompson has demonstrated portrait and figure drawing and served as a juror and board member for the Portrait Society of Canada\u0027s International Portrait Conference in Toronto. He has also lectured at the Dahesh Museum of Art, in New York, and served as a speaker at Studio Incamminati\u0027s Advanced Portrait Workshop and Symposium. \u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EHis work can be found in public and private collections throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003EContact Dan through his website at:\u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.danthompsonart.com/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.danthompsonart.com/\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C/p\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":false,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":28}