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Nymphs and Satyr, by William Bouguereau (Detail)
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ARC Staff
  Executive Committee

Fred Ross, Chairman - - MA in Art Education from Columbia, Chairman of the ARC Board of Trustees; Art Educator/lecturer; President of Bouguereau Committee; Art Expert and Collector, Writer; Artist; Published Art Historian on the 19th Century; ARC Founder; Salon and Scholarship Judge

Brian Yoder, Executive Advisor - ARC and Goodart Founder; Webmaster; Chief Moderator of ARC/Goodart Forum; Director of Development at Farheap Solutions, Inc.; Chief Architect, Farheap Solutions

Paul W. McCormack, Executive Director of Programs - Director of ARC Salon, ARC Scholarship, ARC Approved Ateliers, and Living Masters Gallery; ARC Salon and Scholarship Judge; ARC Living Master™; Teacher

Sherry Ross, Editor and Chief - Author of The Light of Lucinda, The Seeds of the Pomegranate, and The Sorrell Ridge Cook Book. Sherry Ross has also been published in many poetry magazines including "POET Magazine"

Kara Ross, Director of Operations - BA in Art History from Drew University, Sotheby's Intern, ARC Staff writer

Sharon O'Brien, Director of Marketing and Communications - Director of the Print Center and Quality Control, Associates Degree in Visual Communication, Website and Graphic Designer, Principal of sharonobrien.com, Mural Artist of 25 Years

Frank Gatti, Chief Financial Officer - BS in accounting from St. John's University, NBA in Finance from Wagner College, worked as a financial analyst on Wall Street for major banking institutions

Damien Bartoli, ARC Resident Historian -World Expert on and author of the Catalog Raisonne of William Bouguereau

  Staff

JoAnn Tedesco, Executive Secretary - Executive Assistant to ARC Chairman, Fred Ross

Karen McCormack, Associate Director of Programs - Associate Director of ARC Salon and Scholarship Competitions

Paul Ripley, Biographer - ARC Main Biographer

Don Kurtz, Manager of Photographic Resources

Virgil Elliott, Technical Advisor - ARC Technical Advisor and Living Masterô/Teacher

Sean Colon, Technical Advisor - BA in International Relations

Advisory Board

Kate Williams - ARC Founder and Advisor of Website development and Public Relations

Iian Neill - Former Director of Internet Activities and ARC Webmaster; Writer; Artist; Web Designer; ARC Founder

Vern Swanson - PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England; Present Director of Springville Museum, Utah; Lecturer/Scholar/ Writer; Expert on Victorian 19th Century European Art and Russian Art through 20th Century; World Expert and Author of the Catalogs Raisonne on Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and John William Godward

Gregory Hedberg - PhD from New York University; Present Director of Hirschl and Adler Galleries; Lecturer and Writer; one of the founders of The New York Academy of Art, and was appointed its first Director; Past Head Curator of European Paintings, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford CN

Allan Banks - Former President of the American Society of Classical Realism; ARC Judge Rotation; ARC Living Master

Richard Whitney - Chairman of the American Society of Portrait Artists; ARC Judge Rotation; ARC Living Master

Jacob Collins - ARC Judge; Director of the Water Street Atelier, NYC; ARC Living Master

Peter Trippi - MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England; ARC Salon Judge; Present Director of the Dahesh Museum of Art, NYC, NY; Lecturer/ Writer/Scholar; World Expert and Author of the Latest Monograph on John William Waterhouse

John Angel - Founder of Angel Academy of Art, Florence, Italy; ARC Living Master/Teacher

Lynne Barton - Director of Angel Academy, Florence, Italy

Gabriel Weisberg PhD - World Expert French Naturalism; Writer/ Lecturer/Scholar; Author of Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition; contributing writer to ARC; Dr. Weisbergís examination and study of many artists - including Jules Breton, Jules Adler, Albert Besnard, Jean-Charles Cazin and Theodule Ribot - have helped reestablish an awareness and appreciation of the entire 19th Century.

Deborah Brent - Director of the Academy of Realist Art, Toronto, Canada

Steve Gjertson - Living Master, Advisor of Standards and Practices, Former President of the American Society of Classical Realism

Dan Greene - Living Master, ARC Judge

Daniel Gerhartz - ARC Salon "Best in Show" winner, Living Master, ARC Judge

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