Posts for May, 2021

This juried exhibition features the work of painters and sculptors who are members of the Booth Artists’ Guild, a group that meets monthly for educational programs. ARC Living Master Sivananda Nyayapathi won the Marcia Dillard best in show award for his still life "Fruit Bowl".

The exhibition will be on display from May 11 - August 22, 2021 at the Borderland Gallery at the Booth Western Art Museum, 501 N Museum Dr., Cartersville, GA.

Highlights of the art walk and the interviews of some of the participating artists will air on the museum's Facebook page and YouTube channel.

To take a 3D tour through the exhibition, click here.

Four new available casts available from The Fountainhead Gipsoteca. Sculptor Justin Kendall’s goal is to help introduce people to the tradition of classical sculpture by producing affordable plaster casts for students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. In addition to the ever-expanding main collection, there is an additional selection of smaller fragments available for those who want beautiful forms to study and admire while on a budget. To view and inquire about the entire catalog, please email justinryankendall@gmail.com or direct message @fountainheadgipsoteca on Instagram.

ARC Living Master Julio Reyes will be unveiling 12 new works in "Tender Mercies", his solo exhibition at Arcadia Contemporary.

"'Tender Mercies' is an intimate collection of egg tempera paintings, focusing on moments of quiet grandeur, transformation, and spirit. In these works, I was seeking to express the dignity within unnoticed moments; the glowing memory of something larger that is now lost - a gentle revelation, filled with longing, that unfolds only to the careful observer. Here is a quiet place, not presented as an escape from the tumult of modern life and it's kaleidoscope of novelties - but as desperately overlooked treasures, tucked away from sight..." - Julio Reyes

The exhibition runs from May 22 - June 13, 2021 at Arcadia Contemporary's new location 421 W Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

For more information, please click here. 

For more events and exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.

The Florence Academy of Art is holding a special virtual exhibition of over 150 works created by 80 women graduates of the FAA since 1994. Their diverse and highly personal visions are formed from an arts education that is meant to be foundational, a tradition these painters and sculptors have expanded upon or returned to in the 150 works assembled in this exhibition.

To view the exhibition, please click here.

Building Skill-based Techniques for the K-12 Classroom

The Master of Arts in Studio Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). The MA program consists of 30 credits of full-time study, entirely studio-based and completed over 3 summer sessions. Each summer session is 6 weeks in duration. Students may choose to complete all 3 summer sessions in person, or attend up to 2 out of the 3 summer sessions remotely. For those who study remotely, the required in-person session may take place at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, or at the academy’s campus in Florence, Italy.

The Florence Academy of Art is delighted to partner with Mandy Theis and School of Atelier Arts to offer this degree program. ​With its emphasis on classical methods, the course provides training in drawing and painting to art teachers seeking to use these skill-based techniques in their classrooms, and to anyone interested in learning how to make realistic artwork. Candidates are not expected to come into the program with high levels of technical skill. Instead, the program is designed to provide the knowledge and develop the skill set of candidates from a variety of backgrounds and levels of experience.

For details, click here. 

Click here to see a YouTube Video about the program. 

Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine has published an 8 page spread on the 15th International ARC Salon titled "A Truly Global Salon" in their June 2021 edition.

Duffy Sheridan's First Place Figurative Award winning work "Something I Don't Know" is featured on the cover.

To purchase a copy of the magazine and to learn more about Fine Art Connoisseur, please click here. 

Congratulations to ARC Associate Living Master Arina Gordienko for winning an Honorable Mention at the IBPC-2021 (International Biennial Portrait Competition) at Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art in USA. Three of her works will be on display in the exhibition.

The current show includes artists from Australia, China, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Peru, England, Spain, and from New York to California.

The exhibition runs from April 29 – June 26, 2021 at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, 309 McClellan St, Wausau, WI 54403.

For more information, please click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

Betsy James Wyeth devoted much of her adult life to supporting the work of the three artists in the family that she became part of: Andrew Wyeth, whom she married in 1939; his father, Newell Convers Wyeth; and James (Jamie) Browning Wyeth, one of her two sons with Andrew. Much less known is Betsy Wyeth’s passion for collecting work by each of them. Over the years she assembled a rich and varied collection of paintings, drawings, and watercolors depicting subjects from the two places that dominated their careers: the area around their homes and studios in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and in Midcoast Maine, where the extended Wyeth family has summered since the 1920s. Upon Betsy’s passing in 2020, the Farnsworth Art Museum received a bequest of twenty-seven works by this distinguished group of American artists: six by N.C., two by Andrew, and nineteen by Jamie.

The exhibition runs from May 14, 2021 - March 27, 2022 at the Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St, Rockland, ME.

To learn more about this exhibition, please click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

ARC Approved Laguna College of Art + Design (LCAD) is proud to present its 2021 BFA Fine Arts Exhibition, a group exhibition highlighting representational paintings, drawings, and sculptures produced by seniors of LCAD’s BFA program in Drawing +Painting.

The exhibition offers a selection of work developed as part of LCAD’s Senior Thesis project, the mission of which is to guide seniors in creating a cohesive body of work that reflects a balance of individual conceptual growth and academic knowledge of the figure, still life, landscape, and interior.

The exhibition runs from May 6 - 27, 2021 at LCAD Gallery, 374 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach, CA.

For more information, please click here. 

For more events and exhibition, please click here.

'Body and Soul', organized in collaboration with the Castello Sforzesco Museum in Milan, seeks to bring to light the main themes and ideas developed in Italy during the second half of the Quattrocento.

In the first two decades of the 16th century, these elements would lead to a defining moment in the history of Renaissance sculpture, with the arrival on the art scene of one of the greatest creators of all time, Michelangelo. The exhibition will focus primarily on the art of sculpting, but will also explore a number of works from other fields (painting, printmaking, and drawing).

The exhibition runs from October 22, 2020 - June 21, 2021 at the Louvre, Rue de Rivoli, Paris France.

To learn more, click here. 

For more events and exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.

Studio Incamminati continued their much-anticipated Facebook Live series with Instructors painting live for a 4-hour session in their skylight studios. This year, they invited philanthropists, art collectors, and Founders of The Bennett Prize, Steven A. Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt to pose.

Studio Incamminati Instructors and Alumni who painted are Rachel Pierson, Natalie Italiano, Katya Held, Lea Colie Wight, Lynn Snyder, and Wendy Wagner.

Click to watch the livestream on YouTube or Facebook. 

Hosted by the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA), "Art-A-Whirl®" is the largest open studio tour in the country. This year, as a result of the COVID pandemic, it will be held virtually. ARC Living Master Mary Pettis will be among the artists participating.

The Northrup King Building, located on 1500 Jackson St NE, Minneapolis, MN will be hosting "May Retail Hours" during the Art-A-Whirl weekend. From May 14 - 16, 2021, the public can visit studios who wish to be open to collectors, friends, family, and guests.

Mary will be painting in Studio/Gallery #366 throughout the weekend. COVID safety protocols will be observed.

For more information, please click here. 

To see more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

The Art Renewal Center Scholarship Competition begins on May 1, 2021 and runs until May 31, 2021.

From the contest participants, we will select a group of students, no less than 10 to receive between them $30,000.

We are also introducing this year, The Brian Yoder Memorial Scholarship, which will be an ongoing award in the ARC Scholarship Competition.

In addition we will be offering The AAPL Award (American Artists Professional League) in the amount of $2,000.

Entry to the competition is free.

To access the full prospectus and to start the entry process, please visit our Scholarship Application Page. 

Image Shown: Time is not a Limit by Patricia Alonzo Diaz

3rd Place Winner - 2019 ARC Scholarship Competition

Building Skill-based Techniques for the K-12 Classroom

The Master of Arts in Studio Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). The MA program consists of 30 credits of full-time study, entirely studio-based and completed over 3 summer sessions. Each summer session is 6 weeks in duration. Students may choose to complete all 3 summer sessions in person, or attend up to 2 out of the 3 summer sessions remotely. For those who study remotely, the required in-person session may take place at St. Peter’s University in Jersey City, or at the academy’s campus in Florence, Italy.

The Florence Academy of Art is delighted to partner with Mandy Theis and School of Atelier Arts to offer this degree program. ​With its emphasis on classical methods, the course provides training in drawing and painting to art teachers seeking to use these skill-based techniques in their classrooms, and to anyone interested in learning how to make realistic artwork. Candidates are not expected to come into the program with high levels of technical skill. Instead, the program is designed to provide the knowledge and develop the skill set of candidates from a variety of backgrounds and levels of experience.

For details, click here. 

Click here to see a YouTube Video about the program. 

Congratulations to ARC Living Master Jon Boe Paulsen for winning first place in the "Portrait Now" competition for his painting "The Last Letter".

Portrait Now is the Nordic regions' largest figurative competition. The Carlsberg Foundation's Portrait Award is a competition for Nordic artists, held every other year since 2007 and is open to artists from Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

The exhibition runs from May 6 - August 1, 2021 at the Museum of National History Frederiksborg Castle DK , Hillerød, Hillerød.

For more information, please click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC calendar.

The finalists and winner of The 2019 Bennett Prize along with the Bennett Prize's Founders, Steven A. Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt will hold a special artist panel on May 7, 2021.

Moderated by Studio Incamminati President, James Savoie, and joined by Dean of Fine Arts, Dan Thompson, this panel will encourage a conversation on being an artist, perspective, and the artist's experience as Bennett Prize finalists.

This is a free virtual panel that will take place on Zoom.

Click here for more information. 

To learn more about upcoming events and exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.

Celebrating its 4th “Best of America” Small Works National Juried Exhibition in 2021, the National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS) is holding an exhibit honoring the Best in oil and acrylic painting. NOAPS has been showcasing the talents of oil and acrylic painters since 1991.

ARC Living Masters John Buxton and John Pototschnik, ARC Associate Living Masters Lee Alban, Carla D'aguanno and Sivananda Nyayapathi, and ARC Living Artist George Angelini are among the participating artists.

The opening reception is on Friday, May 7th 2021 from 5-8pm. The exhibition will be on display From May 7 - June 1, 2021 at the Principle Gallery Charleston, 125 Meeting Street, Charleston SC 29401.

For more information, please click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.