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Our Art and Design College Nashville Campus
Creative careers are thriving in Music City! Located a few minutes from downtown Nashville, Nossi places you in the middle of one of the top cities in the nation.
Nossi's PACE - Professional Accelerated Career Experience
Music. Fashion. Sports. Events. Theater. Non-Profits. Connect with important Nashville industries to produce a professional portfolio by graduation through project-based work within the Nashville Professional Creative Community! It's the best way to get hands-on experience with a creative college in Nashville.
🎥✨ Nossi Studio Tour
Join @divinamarfe for a walk‑through of our photography spaces: Studio A, Studio B, Studio C, and the Cage. From professional lighting and cameras, to lenses, backdrops, and fully equipped studio spaces, students have access to everything they need to bring their creative vision to life.
👉 Discover more about what our Photography Program offers at the link in our bio!
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📅🎨 Bonus Back Cover Art Revealed!
Instructor @moillustration just shared three additional student works - the back covers of the 2026 Nossi Student Art Calendars. These designs round out the collection and showcase even more creativity from our summer open studio classes.
👉 Visit the link in our bio to order your calendar today and support our students’ work all year long!
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📅✨ 2026 Student Art Calendars
We’re excited to share this year’s Nossi student calendars, featuring artwork from all three of our summer open studio classes. Instructor @moillustration worked to include every student’s voice in the collection, showcasing a wide range of creativity, styles, and perspectives.
The calendars are print‑on‑demand, high quality, and available at cost ($14.95). No profit, just a way to celebrate and support our students’ work all year long.
👉 Visit the link in our bio to order your copy today!
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📸🌄 Landscape Photography Student Photos:
Students in Jordan Rocque’s Landscape Photography class captured the beauty of Radnor Lake, Narrows of the Harpeth, and Burgess Falls, experimenting with HDR techniques, composition, and capturing everything from wide scenic views to close natural details.
Narrows of the Harpeth:
1. Alexis Buckley
Radnor Lake:
2. Alexis Buckley
3. Alexis Buckley
4. Yordin Leiva
Burgess Falls:
5. Rebekah Wynn
6. Rebekah Wynn
7. Rebekah Wynn
8. Ryleigh Thomas
9. Stiven Amaya
10. Yordin Leiva
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🍕✨ 100 Ways to Serve Pizza - with a Twist
In GD 120: Linear Design, instructor Tracy Ratliff | @paisley_pen_creative challenged students to think beyond the obvious. The assignment began with 100 sketches on the prompt “100 Ways to Serve Pizza.”
From there, students selected one idea to transform into a full advertisement for a real local pizza restaurant, pushing them to break away from conventional design solutions.
Here are three standout pieces from the project:
“The Only Bling You Need” - Iroda Abdugofurova
“Great on the Go” - Melanie Martinez
“Scream Cheese” - Erica Vasquez | @goldeeyes
Creative problem-solving, bold concepts, and designs that just might make you hungry. 👏
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What makes a 3D portfolio actually hire-ready? 🎯
Grant Tudor breaks it down: Your work needs to be more than just "cool" - it needs to be commercially viable. The kind of deliverable a client would pay for.
At Nossi, students finish Exploring 3D with:
✨ A clean final render
✨ A breakdown explaining their choices
✨ Tidy project files
Because creative directors want to see range AND readiness at a glance.
🔗 See the full feature with Grant (link in bio)
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🌿🖌️ Nature, technique, and real-time feedback.
Step into Basic Drawing with Laird Ogden as he visits students sketching outdoors at Nossi. From graphite to charcoal, each student explores form, tone, and perspective.
Watch as Laird reviews their work, offers tips, and helps them see the world through an artist’s eye. 🎨✨
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🎥 Behind the scenes at ARC Studios!
Nossi students, along with Tom Stanford and Kirk Denney, got an exclusive tour of @arcstudios.tv in Nashville, exploring professional production spaces, gear setups, and creative workflows.
🙌 We’re happy to give students a peek at the inner workings of a professional production company in the heart of Nashville. Learn more about our videography program at the link in our bio!
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📸 Behind the scenes in Brandan Tuck’s Adobe Lightroom class
Students practiced tethered shooting in the studio after learning how to set up and manage their workflow in Adobe Lightroom. From camera to screen, they’re building real-world skills in lighting, composition, and digital capture.
👉 Learn more about our Photography Program at the link in bio!
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🥬 Turnip greens and Southern flavor on full display! Chef Zac and our Nossi Culinary students brought the heat at the @nashvillefarmersmarket Turnip Green Festival 2025.
🍴👉 Visit the Nossi Blog at the link in bio for recipes from this event.
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💀🖊️ Skeletons, shadows, and sweet treats
In Basic Drawing 101, students explored surface textures and lighting conditions by sketching a classic still life… with a twist. This time, the subject was a skeleton, perfect for practicing form, tone, and reflected light. 😉
🍬 Bonus: Laird brought candy for his class to keep the creativity flowing!
➡️ Check out our haunted Illustration Program at the link in bio.
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🔪🔥 Culinary Club: Chopped Edition!
Once a month, Nossi Culinary turns up the heat, and last Friday’s challenge did not disappoint. Led by Chef Zac, this hands-on challenge was all about creativity, technique, and a little friendly competition.
🏆 Winners were Veronica Robertson for perfectly butchering a chicken, and to Anna Palmer for serving up the best Korean corndogs!
➡️ Learn more about our 2-Year Culinary Program at the link in bio.
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“Our comprehensive curriculum will give students a balanced and complete culinary experience unmatched by other programs in the Southeast, preparing them for an array of incredible career opportunities across the hospitality industry.”
-Chef Anthony Mandriota, Culinary Arts Department Chair