Student Exhibit 2025
In 1997 Curney Nuffer began his teaching career in Richmond at the Shockoe Bottom Art Center. He has taught two painting - also drawing - classes a week at the Crossroads Art Center for the last 10 years.
Working with mostly intermediate and advanced students, Curney has taught many local and regional artists as well as those with varied backgrounds: engineers, architects, doctors, veterinarians, nuclear physicists, refugees from Afghanistan and former art school students who wish to reconnect with the art world.
His teaching style is to develop each student at his or her own speed and build on previous experience with painting and drawing. His approach is “no clones”. However, his own art background is strongly influenced by European Old Master painting and the Russian Surikov Institute painters both past and present.
He encourages plein air painting as a strong learning tool but also provides still life set- ups and a large photo inventory for classroom time. Curney encourages his students to paint as much as they can but never forget the importance of drawing. His gallery space at Crossroads provides space for his students to exhibit with him and his studio assistant, Susan Dull.
His most useful role as a teacher may be to emphasize color mixing with a limited palette. Taking the time to learn your palette and what it can do for you without buying more tubes of different paints.
His subject matter runs from landscapes to still lifes to portraits which he brings to life in his class demos for his students as they work to move forward as artists.
