Chad Florence is a graduate of (and later a faculty member at) the American Academy of Art. He also holds his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University.He has been a commercial artist, instructor, and, as his work will attest to, a "fine" artist in the truest sense of the word. Chad paints during winter in Exuma in the Bahamas, and creates during summer and fall at his studio in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.