Jason Louis Arkles was born in Washington, DC, one of five children of a woodworker and a quilter. In 1996, he traveled to Florence, Italy, where he met Charles Cecil, an accomplish...
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Jason Louis Arkles was born in Washington, DC, one of five children of a woodworker and a quilter. In 1996, he traveled to Florence, Italy, where he met Charles Cecil, an accomplished portrait and landscape painter who heads a small, private atelier in Florence's oldest working artist's studio. Mr. Cecil hired Jason to assist in the construction and outfitting of a new studio for sculpture, a medium not previously offered to the pupils at the atelier. From January 1997 until 2006, Jason was department head and principle instructor of the Sculpture Room at Charles Cecil Studios.