Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art (NSFIA) was a city-run vocational and art school in

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and painter John R. Grabach. Others included Enid Bell, Gustave Cimiotti, Hannes Beckman (design and color), Hillaire Hiler (color), Joseph Konzal (sculpture), Gerson Leiber (print making),

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(portrait), Reuben Nakian (sculpture), Robert Conover, Leo Dee, Jane Burgio, and

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. Ida Wells Stroud taught there from c.1907 to 1943. The painter Avery Johnson taught at the Newark School from 1947 to 1960. In addition to teaching there, the painter Gustave Cimiotti, Jr. served as director of the school from 1935 to 1943. Henry Gasser, well known for his paintings of Newark, served as director from 1946 to 1954. The school closed its doors in 1997 when, in the midst of a budget crisis for the Newark public school system, it was decided that public schools would only operate

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schools.Chiles, Nick. "Long-lived Newark arts school closes after its 18-month scramble for aid fails". ''

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'', February 1, 1997. Accessed February 8, 2010 via Newsbank.com. "After 18 months of scratching and scrambling to stay alive, the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art closed its doors yesterday, 115 years after it first opened to young artists throughout northern New Jersey. The school, which has produced generations of successful artists and designers, couldn't go on any longer after losing its funding from the Newark school system." The school was originally housed within the same building as the

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. The college moved from that facility due to lack funding in the early 1990s and was relocated to Lyons Avenue until its 1997 closure.

Notable alumni

* J. Clayton "Clay" Conroy *

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* Helen Frank * John D Howard Jr * Don Martin * Santo Pezzutti * Nicholas Reale * Eli Reed *

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* Grif Teller * Charles Waterhouse

References

*Peter C. Merrill,
German Immigrant Artists in America: A Biographical Dictionary
, p. 174, Scarecrow Press, Jan 1, 1997

External links

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