SACI

About
Studio Arts College International (SACI) is more than an opportunity to study abroad program in the birthplace of the Renaissance: it’s an experience you will carry with you, in your career and throughout your life.
Academics
Accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), SACI offers a wide range of innovative, hands-on graduate and undergraduate programs in traditional and contemporary studio arts, design, conservation, art history, and Italian language and culture.
Student Life
Surrounded by the great masterpieces of another age and a lively community of contemporary artists, studying at SACI is not only an opportunity to discover what came before you, but to be part of a vibrant culture that is overflowing with artistic life.
Admissions
Begin a creative journey that will prepare you to succeed in the competitive art world. Many partial scholarships are available for undergraduate and graduate study at SACI. We offer an easy online application process that you can use to submit and check on the status of your application.
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About / Facilities Studios

SACI Studios

SACI’s fully-equipped classroom studios are used for courses in Fine Arts, Design, and Conservation. Our graduate students are provided with dedicated studio space in SACI’s Jules Maidoff Palazzo for the Visual Arts, open from 9 am-midnight, 7 days per week.

SACI Classroom Studios

Classes are held in SACI’s fully-renovated Renaissance palazzi in the heart of Florence’s historic center. Our classroom studios will enable you to pursue creative work — ranging from foundation-level to advanced, traditional to cutting-edge — in Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, Ceramics, Photography, Video, Digital Multimedia, Animation, Design, & Conservation. Additional crafts studios near the school will provide you with opportunities to learn Weaving, Serigraphy, Batik, and Jewelry Design.

SACI Graduate Student Studios

As a student in SACI's graduate programs in Studio Art, Communications Design, or Photography, you will be assigned your own studio space in one of several rooms in our Jules Maidoff Palazzo reserved exclusively for our Post-Bac and MFA students. Your studio will be your home away from home, a place in which you will be encouraged by SACI faculty members to discover and explore pathways that are fully your own.

Students in the MA in Art History program are allotted study space down the hall from the SACI Worthington Library in SACI’s main building, the Palazzo dei Cartelloni.