The Legacy Art Studio, Fort Lauderdale

Inside The Legacy Art Studio, there's an extensive library of art books, reference materials, and biographies of iconic artists. It's fitting, then, that the studio was built on the disciplines and technical skills passed on through art history, and found in the pages of those books, all without discounting contemporary methods.

In 2004, founder Nilda Maria Comas decided to pick up where ancient Greek sculptors and Renaissance painters left off. The Puerto Rican–born master artist rooted her studio in academic training, and speaks the universal languages of drawing, painting, and sculpture—along with Spanish, English, Italian, and French. When she's not leading students on educational journeys abroad, Nilda can be found at her Fort Lauderdale studio teaching others how to paint masterpieces, sculpt lifelike creations, or draw the winning lottery numbers.