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3 August, 2018

The Bennett Prize, created in 2018, awards $50,000 to a woman artist to create her own solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings, which will travel the country. The Prize will propel ...

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Florentine Renaissance painter Plautilla Nelli created the only early Last Supper by a woman artist and signed her massive 21 foot long masterwork with a call to action: 'Pray for the ...

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ARA Boston, an ARC Approved AtelierSM, has brought together some of the top figurative artists in the world to work for 5 days straight from a live model in competition for big cash prizes. Thi ...

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The Museo del Prado is presenting the first major exhibition on Lorenzo Lotto’s portraits. Co-organised with the National Gallery in London, it is benefiting from the sole sponsorship of Fundación B ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Charles Miano as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™! Charles Miano's art explores both Eastern and Western human values, using a classic foundation and contempor ...

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Relatively unknown, 19th century polychrome sculpture is one of the key facets of the history of sculpture. Until the beginning of this century, the only colours permitted in statuary were the white ...

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This is the first retrospective for nearly a century of the Manchester born painter Annie Swynnerton, a pioneering professional artist who challenged convention in art and life. Painting Light and ...

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Pastels are only rarely exhibited due to the fragility of the powdery pigment and the light sensitivity of the paper on which it rests. Drawn primarily from the MFA’s holdings, with select loans fro ...

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ARC Editor-in-Chief Sherry Ross is hosting a summer drawing contest for children (grades 6-12) going on now. The contest involves creating and drawing a new fantastical character inspired by he ...

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In conjunction with the museum exhibition, FLORA, in the Drents Museum, a sales exhibition will take place at Harms Collection. ARC Living Master™ Joke Frima is looking for untouched nature in he ...

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23 July, 2018

Gallery 901 is hosting an artist's meet and greet on June 28th from 10am - 12pm featuring sculpture artist and ARC Living Master™Angela Mia De la Vega.    Exalting the human spirit throug ...

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Presenting the full range of John Singer Sargent’s work — including his beloved portraits — “John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age” chronicles a never-told story about this celebrated America ...

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20 July, 2018

In the Fleurieu Biennale, ARC Associate Living Master™, Louise Feneley, received the distinction of 'Highly Commended' for her work 'The Wanderer's Lament'. Her work will be on display at the Sig ...

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ARC Living Master,  Stephen Gjertson, has recently been interviewed by Emilio Longo - Visual Arts Teacher and author of Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students and Artist-T ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ Louise Feneley's painting 'Bouquet - Natura Morte' has received a 'Highly Commended' distinction in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. &quo ...

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Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage is the first exhibition to bring together Church’s highly detailed compositions of sacred terrain in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. A leading painter ...

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Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major exhibition to juxtapose examples by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with works that inspired its members, including Italia ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ Gezien van de Riet will be participating in the exhibition, "69 Shades of Women’s Art". The exhibition displays the work of 69 different women artists and i ...

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The artists and alumni of ARC ApprovedSM Studio Incamminati are holding their annual exhibition and sale. 80 works from 53 artists will be on display. Many of the artists have won national and int ...

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In the dynamic world of 18th-century Europe, people, ideas, and artistic styles crossed national boundaries. Stretching the bounds of social mobility and geography, Giacomo Casanova traveled 40,000 ...

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ARC Living MasterTM Adrian Gottlieb is holding a solo exhibition titled "Reflections". The show runs from July 13 - August 17, 2018 at American Legacy Fine Arts, 949 Linda Vista Avenue, ...

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ARC Associate Living MasterTM Elizabeth Barden is very happy to have two of her paintings selected as finalists in Australia’s biggest small scale art award, the 2018 Lethbridge 10 000 Art Awards, ...

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Customs House Museum presents five contemporary realist painters who have lived and traveled across the globe, gaining inspiration from Venice, Tokyo, Montreal, Charleston, Virginia, North Carolina, ...

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Studios at Crescent Pond is holding an Open House event on Saturday July 7th and Sunday July 8th from 12 - 5pm est. Richard Whitney will be having classes at his studio every Friday night from ...

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ARC Living MasterTM Joke Frima is holding an exhibition titled "Flora" from July 1-October 28, 2018 in the Drents Museum located on 1 Brink, Assen, HS 9401, Netherlands.    &n ...

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ARC Living Master™ Sergio Roffo will be performing a live oil painting demonstration of a coastal scene and describing the process from beginning to completion.      The d ...

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Women Painting Women is a major exhibition of portraiture celebrating the talent of Australian female portrait artists and the women who sit for them. Among the artists is ARC Associate Living Maste ...

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In summer 2018, Crooked Tree Arts Center - Traverse City is proud to be the exclusive presenter of the the Oil Painters of America Juried Salon Show. The OPA represents over 4,000 oil painters from ...

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26 June, 2018

Tales From A Studio is a Solo Exhibition by ARC Associate Living Master™ Vicki Sullivan from Mornington Peninsula. Sullivan’s work includes portraits of favorite muses and local identities, ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ Jon Bøe Paulsen has been selected for a solo exhibition and will now be featured as an Artsy.net Light Space & Time promoted artist.  The exhibition is ...

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The Guide Artists is a monthly magazine dedicated to showcasing the best in international contemporary art. First published in 2017, the magazine has already presented some of the most recognizable ...

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ARC Living Master™ Julio Reyes and ARC Living Master™ Max Ginsburg are being featured at MCA Museum in We The People – Contemporary American Figurative Art.  We the People h ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome John Seibels Walker as an ARC Living MasterTM. American painter, John Seibels Walker, was born in South Carolina in 1960. He received a B.A. in Studio Arts from The Univ ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Princeton Academy of Art as a new ARC ApprovedSM Atelier! Princeton Academy of Art presents a unique educational experience in the European Classical Tradition. ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Manchester Studios RVA as a new ARC ApprovedSM Atelier!     Manchester Studios RVA brings master artists and instructors in Classical Realism from around the wo ...

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The Garden State Comic Fest will be featuring artwork by ARC Living Master™ Greg Hildebrandt.  Greg will be painting at the booth all weekend. He will also be selling vintage tin signs, ...

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The MEAM (Museu Europeu d'Art Modern) will be displaying works from the ModPortrait  exhibition. The exhibition was originally shown at the Pablo Serrano Museum and has traveled to the MEAM whe ...

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The goal of the show is to assemble the finest display of approximately 200 representational oil paintings. The focus in the jurying process was to select paintings that show the highest quality in ...

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Have you been dreaming of really learning to draw and paint? LARA Summer Schools tutors teach you the fundamentals of good draughtsmanship and paint handling. Summer Schools are the perfect taster f ...

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Come inside, soak up the atmosphere and learn about the historic Salmagundi Club with a member docent led tour. This is a rare opportunity to see works by important American artists spanning from ye ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ Vicki Sullivan will be displaying two works in the Hidden Faces exhibition of the 2018 Victorian Salon des Refusés. The exhibition will be held on June 11 – ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™,  Sergio Roffo, will be exhibiting his recent works in a solo show titled “Catching the Light”. The show will take place on June 9 – July 6, 2018 at the Guild of ...

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The International Guild of Realism is holding a members only juried exhibition with the deadline for entries on June 10, 2018. The 13th Annual Juried Exhibition will be held from October ...

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  ARC Allied Organization, The California Art Club, is holding an annual exhibition of contemporary-traditional fine art that spotlights work from more than 220 artists – more than a third of ...

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ARC Living Artist™ Clark Gussin is featured in the June 2018 issue of American Art Collector Magazine. Clark’s three paintings included in the “Where the Land Meets the Sea” article are title ...

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Studios at Crescent Pond is a place where lovers of art and nature meet. For nearly a quarter century, ARC Living MasterTM Dr. Richard Whitney and his artist wife, Sandy Sherman, have welc ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Louise Feneley as a new ARC Associate Living MasterTM. "Initially taught by her mother, a trained artist and teacher, she attended full time art school as soon as pos ...

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The ARC Approved AtelierSM Schuler School is holding their 59th Annual Student and Faculty show, once known as the Historic Hans Schuler Studio. Enjoy refreshments and tours around the historic buil ...

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ARC has recently posted an article by international author and lecturer Alexandra York titled "The Fourth "R" in Education; Reading, WRiting, ARithmetic and ARt".  The artic ...

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This year, the ModPortrait contest award ceremony and beginning exhibition will take place at the Pablo Serrano Museum of Zaragoza located on Paseo Maria Agustin 20, Zaragoza, Catalonia from Ma ...

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The Masters Academy of Art, ARC ApprovedSM Atelier, is holding a Kickstarter campaign to help fund expansion of the school and the artistic community, as well as provide greater ...

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OPA 27th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils is one of the finest display of reprsentational oil paintings. The jurying process strives to select paintings that show the highe ...

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ARC Living MastersTM Virgil Elliot and Joke Frima and ARC Associate Living MasterTM  Gezien van de Riet are participating in the Classical Art exhibition associated with the TRAC2018 ...

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The vitality and inventiveness of artists in eighteenth-century New Spain (Mexico) is the focus of this exhibition, which presents some 110 works of art (primarily paintings), many of which are unpu ...

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ARC ApprovedSM  Florence Academy of Art, US will be hosting two lectures that are free and open to the public.     The first lecture given by Peter Trippi takes place on May 18, 201 ...

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ARC Living MasterTM Donato Giancola will be holding an open studio on Saturday, May 19, 2018 10 am - 6 pm at Donato Arts located on 397 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Scores of works, new and ...

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Taught by the founders of the Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Art, Scotland, instructors Ewan McNaughton and Lea Vaughn take students through the stages of painting in the tradition of the old masters in ...

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The 2018 ARC Scholarship Competition has begun! Students attending or enrolled in ARC Approved Ateliers are welcome to submit their works free of charge. For more information and to apply, please c ...

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Giorgos Rorris was born in Kosmas, Arcadia Kinourias in 1963. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Panagiotis Tetsis and Yiannis Valavanidis. He continued his studies at the É ...

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ARC Living ArtistTM Clark Gussin will be exhibiting his oil painting "Block, Tackle, and Defend" in the 60th Stockton Art League Juried Exhibition. The exhibition runs from May 17-July ...

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Opening Saturday, May 12th, 2018 from 5-8pm at Arcadia Contemporary Los Angeles, California 9428 Washington Blvd, Culver City CA 90232. A group of fifteen American representational artists have c ...

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There's still time to pre-order the 13th International ARC Salon Catalog!   We are expecting the catalog in stock and ready to ship by November 10th of 2018. This year the ...

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7 May, 2018

ARC Associate Living Master™ Roger Dale Brown will be the Keynote Speaker at Plein Air South in 2018.  This event was designed to build community and share knowledge among the plein air painte ...

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Rees Atelier is a large facility located just outside of downtown Mesa, Arizona.  With its 16 foot ceilings, large group working space, student lounge, and numerous student studio spaces, it is ...

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The Florence Academy of Art U.S. (FAA) is excited to present ‘On Paper, An exhibition of Drawings’, held at the FAA U.S.’s Mana Contemporary location. This exhibition opens on Sunday, April 29th and ...

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The California Arts Club, an ARC Allied™  Organization, is holding an exhibition of works by their San Francisco Chapter. ARC Living Artist™ Clark Gussin's work, "Rain ...

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2 May, 2018

Organized by The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin, this exhibition presents a juried collection of 60 outstanding contemporary artistic interpretations of birds and related subje ...

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Since 2007, the biennial Percival Portrait Painting Prize is an open competition for Australian artists. The competition showcases the outstanding and innovative work currently being produced by Au ...

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New this year, the “Summer Drawing Scholarship Competition” offers an opportunity for young fine art students and practicing artists to apply for a space in the Barnes Atelier summer drawin ...

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The National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society, an ARC Allied Organization, is holding their first Best of America Small Paintings Exhibition. A variety of events will take place in connec ...

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27 April, 2018

Hosted by Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc., “Imagine” aims to celebrate the imaginative flare that often separates the efforts of the ARC Approved Ani Art Academy artists from their contemporarie ...

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OPA 27th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils is one of the finest display of reprsentational oil paintings. The jurying process strives to select paintings that show the highe ...

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The Salmagundi Club is holding their "Annual Exhibition", which showcases its club members' finest works of art in all media - oil, watercolor, pastel, graphics, sculpture, photography and ...

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Arts in Rome, an ARC Approved ™ school is immensely pleased to receive internationally renowned award-winning artist, David Gray, who will be teaching his remarkable oil painting technique ...

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  Fine Art Connoisseur magazine is holding a scholarship competition that will be awarding a total of seven full scholarships to attend the upcoming 2nd Annual Figurative Art Convention & ...

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This annual exhibition features the best works of the students/artists of the ARC ApprovedTM Chiaroscuro Atelier. The show runs from April 26 - May 17, 2018 with the opening reception on ...

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Greg Hildebrandt is happy to be a part of the Escape Velocity Exhibition, held at the Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City.  This SciFi theme exhibition curated by Edjo Wheeler opened on Friday ...

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We are pleased to announce an article featuring  Alex Bauwens, the Art Renewal Center’s 13th ARC Salon Fine Art Connoisseur Award winner, has been published in the Scottsdale Independent. ...

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ARC Living Master tm Daniel Gerhartz is holding an exhibition of thirty-one paintings. It is the artist's first major retrospective. It includes many new, never before seen works. "H ...

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ARC Living Artist TM Debra Keirce is holding a solo show called "As Life Happens".    The show runs from April 6 - June 11, 2018 at the Ellis-Nicholson Gallery located on 1 Bro ...

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At ARA Boston, an ARC approved Atelier, their academic training allows students to render what they see to a great degree of truth. ARA Boston is an enthusiastic exponent of the atelier's ...

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The Woman's Essence Project creates public awareness and supports women in contemporary art. The Project represents contemporary women artists worldwide. In the past, women typically play ...

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The Plein Air Convention & Expo is the world’s largest plein air event. It’s like the Woodstock of outdoor painting. By attending the 2018 Plein Air Convention, you’ll make personal connections ...

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ARC Associate Living Master™ and award winning artist, Tina Garrett, is holding a 5-Day Painting the Portrait from Life workshop at The Florence Studio in Italy. Beginners on ...

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The Society of Classical Poets Journal Vol. 6 showcased ARC Living Artist Clark Gussin's drawing, "The Patriot" to illustrate poems in Section IV, titled "Facing T ...

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The Masters Academy of Art is holding a Summer Scholarship Competition. The school is giving away scholarships for summer workshops as well as a grand prize of one full month of study for free. The ...

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4 April, 2018

The 2018 Night of Artists showcases over 280 works by 74 of the country’s top Western artists. Night of Artists is the largest fundraiser for the Briscoe Museum with proceeds supporting the Museum' ...

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Nick Alm, second place winner of the Figurative Category, winner of an ARC purchase award, the Poets Artists Award and the TIAC Art Prize was recently interviewed by The International ...

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The Atelier Studio of Art is holding an Art Studio Sale. Original artwork will be for sale as well as model stands, cast stands, easels, drawing table and assorted art related stuff including flat f ...

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This year, The Barnes Atelier will be breaking down their atelier drawing program process into 4 unique and intensive workshop weeks. Taking place between July 30 - August 24, 2018, each week-long w ...

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Following in the footsteps of nineteenth-century artists who celebrated the out-of-doors as a place of leisure, renewal, and inspiration, this exhibition explores horticultural developments that res ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Kenneth Salaz our newest ARC Living Master!     "Ken Salaz was born in 1970 in southern California and spent his youth living in numerous locations with hi ...

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The Arts in Rome Cultural Association, an ARC Approved Atelier, has launched a prize competition for artists, with the aim of promoting and enhancing Contemporary Figurative Art. The main prize is a ...

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The International Arts & Culture Group (TIAC), an ARC Allied Organization, recently interviewed Joan Coderch and Javier Malavia of Coderch and Malavia Sculptors. The sculptors won the TIAC Art P ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Robert Caldwell as an ARC Associate Living Master. "Robert’s passion for art and nature can be seen in his highly detailed, realistic paintings and drawings. Rob ...

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While a small live audience watches the demo, Facebook users around the globe are encouraged to make comments and ask questions about the painting process. Studio Incamminati faculty members Dan Tho ...

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We are extremely pleased to announce a third prominent venue for this exhibition, Sotheby's, Los Angeles, who has graciously agreed to host the ARC Salon at their prominent west coast venue. The exh ...

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Texas Academy of Figurative Art, an ARC Approved Atelier, is holding their Spring Gallery Night on March 24, 2018. Work by students and teachers will be on display. The show is being held at 415 ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Laurence Saunois as an Associate Living Master. "I was born near Paris, but I went regularly to spend school holidays on my grandfather's small farm in the south ...

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Rembrandt created a series of unusually meticulous drawings depicting emperors and courtiers from Mughal India. This exhibition explores 20 of the Dutch master’s careful studies of imperial Mughal p ...

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