Eric Mannella is an award-winning Canadian artist and co-founder and Director of Atelier de Bresoles. He is an instructor of Life Drawing, Cast Drawing, and Oil Painting, and has taught students of all ages since 1993. He has an MFA cum laude from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art in New York City and a BFA from York University in Toronto. While completing his MFA, he was offered an assistant teaching position at the Academy under founding faculty member Edward Schmidt. Mr. Mannella is the recipient of a Forbes Foundation Travel Grant and the Prince of Wales Scholarship from the Prince of Wales Foundation. He also received a merit scholarship from the New York Academy. Mr. Mannella was featured in the 2007 documentary film L'Art du Nu and is represented by Galerie de Bresoles in Montreal. His work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, and France, and is included in many private and corporate collections. He has given artist talks and painting demonstrations at S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, Algonquin College, and Concordia University.

Mannella has studied extensively with several of the world's leading figurative artists, including Steven Assael, Claude Breeze, Harvey Citron, Jack Dale, Jon DeMartin, Vincent Desiderio, Dan Hughes, Deane G. Keller, Hendrick Lenis, Leonid Lerman, Frank Porcu, and Edward Schmidt. He attended a special anatomical seminar in the dissection laboratory at Yale University. Mr. Mannella is related to Sir William Orpen, an important portrait artist of Irish descent, active in London in the early 20th century.

Allana Benham is a contemporary figurative painter and co-founder and Director of Atelier de Bresoles. She is an instructor of Cast Drawing, Historical Techniques of Drawing, and Landscape Painting, and a specialist in artistic anatomy, teaching classes in Anatomical Drawing and Ecorche Sculpture. She has an MFA cum laude from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy, and a BA in Museum Studies from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She published a print and digital catalogue of the Minassian Collection of Persian, Islamic, and Mughal Miniature Paintings while at Brown University.

Benham has studied drawing with Steven Assael, Deane G. Keller, and Edward Schmidt, anatomy with Frank Porcu, figure painting Vincent Desiderio, and landscape painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. She has attended dissection laboratories and observed surgeries for her anatomical research and is currently compiling a book on artistic anatomy and figure drawing. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Canada, and she has been invited to give artists talks and demonstrations at S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, Algonquin College, and the Beaconsfield Artists Association.

Steven Assael is a respected painter and draughtsman from New York City. His work has a dazzling tactile quality, and often deals with aspects of individual psychology and identity. He is represented by the Forum Gallery in New York City and Los Angeles, and the Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago. Assael teaches at the School of Visual Arts and the New York Academy of Art in New York City.

Carl Dobsky is a young realist painter based in San Francisco. He studied with Jacob Collins at the Water Street Atelier in New York, and attended the New York Academy of Art. Dobsky is represented by the John Pence Gallery and teaches for the atelier program at Massive Black and conceptart.org.

Max Ginsburg has had a long and distinguished career as an artist, teacher, and illustrator in New York City. His work examines human interactions and social conditions in the modern world. He approaches his subjects with empathy, and uses a painterly style of representation which engages the eye. He has had numerous solo shows, won awards from the Society of Illustrators, the Audubon Society, and many others, and is featured in many prominent private collections. Ginsburg will have a retrospective exhibition at the Butler Institute in 2011.

Thomas Sarrantonio is an accomplished plein air painter. He combines impressionistic brushwork with a natural sense of colour to create paintings which communicate the essence of a time and place. Mr. Sarrantonio is Associate Dean of the Visual Arts department and instructor of painting and art history at the State University of New York, SUNY New Paltz. He is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, and a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. Sarrantonio exhibits regularly in New York City, Philadelphia, and upstate New York. His work is found in many private and corporate collections.