Gemini School of Visual Arts will hold its first classes this fall. It will set up shop with Big Sesh Studios, a commercial art studio operated by a Matthew Stubbington, a former Gemini student. The 4,675-sf former residence at 501 Prize Oaks Dr. had been gutted and re-outfitted for studio space and now is adding some educational space.

Because of space constraints at the location, the Gemini school is limiting enrollment to 25 students. A Big Sesh contact tells GlobeSt.com that the school has begun preliminary preparations to look for bigger space, but that's a decision roughly 12 to 18 months away.

Gemini's goal is to send students, grounded in traditional and digital art methods, to video and computer game software companies to design and illustrate products and packaging. It was founded in the United Kingdom by Roger Barcilon, an illustrator and fine art painter, in 1984. He shut it in the late 1990s and is now resurrecting it with help of Stubbington.

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