“The Stevenson Academy of Fine Arts is a world-class art school and cultural center to Long Island.” This new facility, opened March 2004, and is an expansion of the highly respected Stevenson Academy of Traditional Painting, established in 1960 by founder Harold Stevenson, protege of Norman Rockwell. The academy has been fulfilling the need for an art school of quality that focuses on technique and skill ever since. SAFA is located in an airy, elegant building in Oyster Bay, NY with an art gallery on the first floor and classrooms on the second. An exceptional faculty offers art classes in drawing/oil painting, sculpture, pottery, photography, art history, advertising and writing.