Staff, Board of Judges,
and Advisory Board
- Staff
- Board of Judges
- Advisory Board

Fred Ross
ARC Chairman
Founder
Founder and Chairman of the Art Renewal Center, Ross is the leading authority on William Bouguereau and co author of the recently published Catalogue Raisonné William Bouguereau: His Life and Works. Ross received his MA in art education from Columbia University. His speeches and essays are read by over 300,000 art professionals, educators, students and fans each year; and have become required reading in countless classrooms. Ross is also a well known collector of 19th century European painting and of Contemporary Realism as well. Art educator/lecturer; President of the Bouguereau Committee; art expert and collector, writer; artist; published art historian on the 19th Century; Salon and Scholarship judge.

Kara Lysandra Ross
ARC Co-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer
Founder
Kara Lysandra Ross is the Co-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer for the world renowned Art Renewal Center (ARC). She is also the Chief Executive Officer for The Da Vinci Initiative, dedicated to introducing skill-based art education in public and private schools K-12. She holds a BA in Art History from Drew University. As an art educator she has been a contributing writer for Collections Magazine, and Fine Art Connoisseur, and has been published frequently in other magazines and newspapers. She was the co-editor of the William Bouguereau Catalogue Raisonné and author of chapter 28 in the published second edition. She served on a panel focused on the future of representational art at The Realist Art Conference (TRAC) in 2014 and in her role at the ARC spearheaded the introduction of the live exhibition associated to the ARC Salon Competition serving as chief organizer. She is an ARC Salon Judge, and has served as juror in other competitions for organizations such as the International Guild of Realism, the South African Portrait Society, IX Arts, and the Ani Academy. She is also an expert on 19th century Academic French and English painting and is currently researching and writing the catalogue raisonné on Edmund Blair Leighton, for which she is accepted as the world authority, authenticating works by this artist for Sotheby's, Christie's, and Bonham's among others.

Iian Neill
Technical Lead
Founder
Iian Neill is an ARC founder and builder of both the original ARC website back in 1999 and its newly designed version. He holds a BA in Art History and English Literature from the University of Queensland, as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in IT, and has over ten years' experience as an ASP.NET consultant. He has given presentations on art history to the University of the Third Age and delivered a lecture at the Salisbury Art Studios on the subject of imitation and art. He is also the founder and developer of an innovative digital humanities text-as-a-graph project called The Codex, which visualises the connections between artists, artworks, and historical events. Iian was made a visiting researcher at the Digital Academy of the Academy of Sciences and Literature at the University of Mainz, Germany in 2018.

Brian Yoder
Technical Advisor
Founder
ARC and Goodart Founder; Webmaster; Chief Moderator of ARC/Goodart Forum; Author of several ARC Articles; Host of Art Renewal Audio podcast; Chief Software Architect at Moffatt and Nichol.

Hongbin Zhang
ARC Ambassador for realist artists in China
As editor for the overseas edition of Collection Magazine, Hongbin Zhang collaborates with world famous art institutions, and in China there is a strong interest in realist art. He has engaged in international art communication and exchange activities since 1991, has led Chinese artists to participate in the Florence Biennale (Italy), Manchester International Festival (UK) and Gent Contemporary Art Festival (Belgium), as well as others. He activity communicates and interviews world famous artists, collectors and curators, bringing first-hand art information to Chinese artists and readers.

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

Yvette Lytle
Chief Liaison for ARC Approved Schools and Artists/Museum Archivist
Associates Degree in Visual Communications from the Katherine Gibbs School, Website and Graphic Designer, Artist.

Sabrina Foland
Media Coordinator and ARC Store/Web Assistant
Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from Montclair State University. Graphic Designer.

Michele Carnevale
Executive Assistant
Executive Assistant to ARC Chairman, Fred Ross. BA, AAS, in Professional Sciences from The Laboratory Institute of Merchandising.

Sherry Ross
Editor-in-Chief
Founder
Author of The Vinetrope Adventures, The Seeds of the Pomegranate, and The Sorrell Ridge Cook Book, Sherry Ross has also been published in many poetry magazines including POET Magazine and Enchanted Living Magazine.

Sean Colon
Technical Advisor
BA in International Relations
Thank you to Paul Ripley for writing many of the historical artist biographies that appear throughout the ARC museum and also to Don Kurtz, for providing many of the historical photographic resources.