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The Southern Atelier is proud to present their apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a completely unique 2-fold ...

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This year the San Antonio Museum of Art celebrates its 40th anniversary, and to mark the occasion their fall exhibition, 40 Years, 40 Stories: Treasures and New Discoveries from SAMA’s Col ...

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22 October, 2021

ARC Associate Living Master Elizabeth Barden is a finalist in the The Lester Prize competition. The Lester Prize focuses on portraiture and all of humanity's traits. Capturing what it means to be ‘ ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Frederick Brosen as an ARC Associate Living Master! "Frederick Brosen’s watercolors have been featured in over 30 solo museum and gallery exhibitions across the count ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Gezien van de Riet will be exhibiting "Autumn Dome" in the 23rd Independent Realists Exhibition. Over 500 works of art by 120 artists will be on display. The e ...

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Congratulations to ARC Associate Living Master Vicki Sullivan for winning the 2021 Annie Davison Oliver award for her painting "Wild One". The prize is given every year at the MSWPS (Melbo ...

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On the morning of the crowning event of the 15th ARC Salon Competition, the Official Award Ceremony and Grand Opening at the Museum of European Modern Art (MEAM), it was with shock and great sadness ...

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Pursuit of Beauty: The May Family Collection offers a look at the exemplary Dallas-based collection of American art that was built over nearly 60 years by Thomas and Eleanor May and their children C ...

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Laguna College of Art + Design’s BFA program in Drawing + Painting is proud to present THE ART OF NELLIE GAIL MOULTON, a retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings created by Nellie ...

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In Venice, shortly after 1500, Titian began to produce great paintings in which women were depicted in a new light. Informed by contemporary love, poetry and literature, Titian and his contemporarie ...

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1 October, 2021

From the late 1400's to the present day, people sitting for portraits were keen to be presented in the most favorable manner possible. All aspects of the composition – the facial expression, symboli ...

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This PoetsArtists International Exhibition is curated by Didi Menendez and David Hummer with guest curators Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt. ARC Living Master Anna Wypch is among ...

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The Musée Jacquemart-André will celebrate the creative genius of Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) and the activity of his workshop, by exhibiting around forty works by the master, along with several pa ...

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For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design explores the ways in which artists have represented themselves and their country. This is the first exhibition to highlight the unique form ...

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Fine Art Connoisseur recently published an article by Peter Trippi about the International ARC Salon and the Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works auction that was held at Sotheby's NY ...

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Women artists played a vibrant yet overlooked role in Italy around 1600. The first exhibition solely dedicated to Italian women artists at the Wadsworth, "By Her Hand" explores how importa ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Diana Kirkpatrick as a new ARC Associate Living Master. "A quote from Jordan Sokol sums up Diana's approach to portraiture; 'I like to use portraiture as a way of exp ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome Benjamin Orozco Lopez as an ARC Associate Living Master. Benjamín Orozco López was inclined towards art since his childhood, in which he was always surrounded by the instr ...

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The Southern Atelier is proud to present their apprenticeship program under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a completely unique 2-fold ...

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16 September, 2021

ARC Living Master Joke Frima will be participating in the Realistisch Bekeken Expo, taking place at Presbytery Munte, Munteplein 6, 9820 Munte (Merelbeke) Belgium. The expo runs from September 17 - ...

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15 September, 2021

ARC is pleased to welcome Dan Simoneau as a new ARC Living Artist. "Dan Simoneau was born and raised in Lewiston, Maine, where he began formal art classes at 11 and, at 13, joined the Androsco ...

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The ARC Scholarship Fund has awarded $30,000 in direct scholarships to aid students at ARC Approved™ art academy and atelier schools. This year our top prize, The Brian Yoder Memorial Award, has bee ...

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To all artists planning on entering the 16th International ARC Salon Competition; after careful consideration we have decided to push back our entry period by four months. The new entry dates w ...

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Come and join us for the 15th International ARC Salon Exhibition at the Museum of European Modern Art (MEAM) in Barcelona, Spain this fall. The show will run from October 8th, 2021 – December 12th, ...

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7 September, 2021

Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers (SBA), founded and directed by Emilio Longo, have recently published their first newsletter. As Mr. Longo explains, & ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Gezien van de Riet will be showing her painting "Little Oak in the Dunes" at this exhibition. The exhibition runs from Galerie Autrevue, 4 Woudsterweg, Heerenv ...

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3 September, 2021

ARC Living Master Ana Schmidt has been selected to exhibit two of her paintings, "This is not Graffiti" and "View from Window" at the International Art Exhibition NordArt 2021. ...

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The article Bargue Encore, by Peter Trippi, has recently been added to the ARC website. "For anyone interested in traditional art instruction, 19th century culture, or even just superb pr ...

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26 August, 2021

Brooklyn-based sculptor Justin Ryan Kendall is making affordable plaster drawing casts available to students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. With an ever-expanding collection of casts, ...

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The ARC Scholarship Competition is devoted to supporting students whose works reflect the concept of traditional and contemporary realism. We received entries from students from around the world thi ...

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The American Artists Professional League (AAPL) is pleased to announce the 93rd consecutive Grand National Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club of New York. The in-person Exhibition and virtual show ho ...

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12 August, 2021

After four decades of unbroken use as a museum and exhibition space, the Neue Pinakothek (rebuilt in its current form in the 1970s) has had to shut its doors for extensive renovation and modernizati ...

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Nathaniel Skousen, winner of the PoetsArtists Magazine award in the 15th International ARC Salon, has recently had an interview published in PoetsArtists. "I am always venturing out of my crea ...

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Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828), José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852–1913), and Enrique Chagoya (American, born 1953) examine their respective cultures through printmaking to establish a visual ...

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5 August, 2021

As much admired as he is controversial, Napoleon Bonaparte is a complex figure. On the occasion of the bicentenary of his death, the Rmn - Grand Palais, La Villette and Re Re / Adonis are offering a ...

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On July 24th, at Sotheby’s NY, the Art Renewal Center’s 15th ARC Salon Exhibition hosted Fashion Week San Diego’s “Art and Beauty Behind Fashion” event, where nine FWSD designers debuted 9 cout ...

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This exhibition explores how, both as an artist and an individual, Henry Scott Tuke navigated the shifting social, artistic and sexual dynamics of late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Tackling ques ...

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28 July, 2021

We are excited to announce that 21 out of 28 lots have sold in the groundbreaking online auction, Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works, hosted on sothebys.com. These 21 works ...

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A solo exhibition of ARC Living Master Mario Andres Robinson will be on display at the Paul R. Jones Museum, 2308 6th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401 from May 7 - July 30, 2021. Jones Museum director ...

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For anyone who missed the Grand Opening of the ARC Salon Exhibition, you can still look forward to attending the “Art and Beauty Behind Fashion” event, this coming Saturday, July 24th, from 6pm – 9p ...

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The 15th ARC Salon Exhibition is now open and on view to the public at Sotheby’s NY. Bids are now being accepted for the online auction, Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works, ...

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The California Art Club will present its 110th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition, one of the country’s most anticipated displays of contemporary-traditional fine art, at the Hilbert Museum of California ...

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The ARC Allied Organization American Artists Professional League is holding their first Studio Auction, taking place July 8 through 18, 2021. Over 50 artists are presenting works from their Studios ...

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Galerie d’Orsay is holding a new exhibition of works by ARC Living Master Ken Salaz, celebrating the serenity and sublime beauty of Walden Pond. The exhibition opens to the public on ...

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On July 1, Sugarlift will open the exhibition Flora Nova: Painting Nature Now, which features recent work by five gifted artists who each regard the natural world in a unique and compelling way. Gue ...

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VMFA presents Virginia Arcadia: The Natural Bridge in American Art. Explore the artistic legacy of an iconic natural wonder. Depicted and celebrated for centuries, the Natural Bridge is the Shenando ...

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Congratulations to ARC Living Master Jon Boe Paulsen for winning 1st Place - Overall Category for his painting "Dead Ringer" in Light Space & Time Gallery’s “555 Special” summer online ...

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ARC is pleased to welcome the American Artists Professional League as a new Allied Organziation! From its establishment in 1928, The American Artists Professional League (AAPL) has been a non-profi ...

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The ARC is pleased to present a groundbreaking, first ever, online auction for Important 21st Century Realism hosted at Sothebys.com, including 28 lots from the Art Renewal Center’s (ARC) 15th&nbs ...

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The Southern Atelier is proud to present their apprenticeship program, under the direction of ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano, designed as a 4-level program with a 2-fold course of study. ...

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Through an outstanding group of portraits, this major loan exhibition will introduce visitors to the various new and complex ways that artists portrayed the elite of Medicean Florence, representing ...

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This juried exhibition features students of ARC Approved Aristides Atelier at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, a traditional drawing and painting atelier founded by Juliette Aristides, a student of a ...

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This display presents for the first time watercolor during the Renaissance as a unified art form, highlighting its versatility and pivotal role in understanding, interpreting and documenting the nat ...

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Come enjoy incredible artwork created by the 2020 and 2021 graduates of Studio Incamminati’s Advanced Fine Art Program. This work represents the culmination of four years of study in a program that ...

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Georgetown Atelier is a classical drawing and painting program, which also recognizes the critical role that imaginative realism plays within the classics. Georgetown Atelier was founded in 2008 by ...

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The Magrath Sculpture Atelier at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle enters its 8th year, having weathered the pandemic with hybrid classes focused on core skills that included master cast studies, h ...

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Fictional worlds of magic and adventure come to life through fantasy illustration. Myths, legends, fables, romance, and epic battles involving swords and sorcery occur in a world unfamiliar to us. T ...

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In collaboration with Musée National Gustave Moreau, Paris, this exhibition reveals for the first time 34 watercolours created by Gustave Moreau between 1879 and 1885, on loan from a private collect ...

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ARC Living Artist Stuart Dunkel is holding an solo exhibition of his work at the Rehs Gallery titled "Infestation". Dunkel has painted hundreds of mice, an infestation of sorts, that has ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Gezien van de Riet is exhibiting "November Clouds Above the Kennemer Dunes" in the Møhlmann Collection: Selected Works exhibition. The Møhlmann Museum is a priv ...

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23 works from the 15th International ARC Salon Exhibition have been selected for inclusion in the Lunar Codex, “Nova Collection”. Art images will be laser-etched on a nickel microfiche, to ...

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The Salon des Refusés was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992 in response to the large number of works entered into the Archibald Prize which were not selected for display in the official ex ...

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4 June, 2021

ARC Associate Living Master Michelle Jung is having a solo exhibition of her seascapes called, "Making Waves". The exhibition takes place at at the Santa Paula Art Museum, 117 North 10th ...

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The Public Grand Opening of the 15th ARC Salon Exhibition will take place at Sotheby’s NY, 1334 York Avenue, New York City, NY, Saturday, July 17th between 11am – 3pm. 28 works from the show will be ...

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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 Nyaya ...

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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 ...

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27 May, 2021

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 temp ...

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20 May, 2021

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 a ...

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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 ...

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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 Fig ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 pro ...

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'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 Quattrocen ...

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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 c ...

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12 May, 2021

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 v ...

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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 betwe ...

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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 ...

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7 May, 2021

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 reg ...

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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. Moderat ...

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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 acry ...

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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 betwe ...

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The exhibition Mythological Passions offers a unique opportunity to see one of the greatest groups of mythological paintings created in Europe in the 16th and 17th century. Mythological Passions br ...

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The John F. Studio Museum is pleased to present, “Thomas Eakins in New Jersey.” While mostly known as a Philadelphia painter, Thomas Eakins spent important time in New Jersey using his brush and cam ...

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The ARC Approved Florence Classical Arts Academy offers a One-Year Course, which can then be extended into the full Three-Year Course https://www.artac.org/diploma-in-visual-arts. This course provi ...

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27 April, 2021

"Awakening Realism" is presenting 50 paintings and drawings from the Miano Apprenticeship Program at the ARC Approved Southern Atelier. These beautiful drawings and paintings exemplify the ...

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22 April, 2021

Affordable plaster casts available for students, teachers, and lovers of art and art history. Artist Justin Kendall’s goal is to help introduce people to the tradition of classical sc ...

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The 15th International ARC Salon Book contains over a thousand stunning traditional artworks, from the forefront of the 21st Century Realist Art Movement. Including numerous full-page plates and des ...

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For the first time in its near 200-year history, the National Gallery, London has toured an exhibition of works internationally. Drawing on the strengths of their collection, this exhibition offers ...

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Rehs Gallery is holding a small works exhibit featuring a wide variety of paintings that all measure 12 x 12 inches or less. Among the 20 included artists will be ARC Living Artist Stuart Dunkel, AR ...

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What does “atelier-style teachings” mean? How can an education in technical realism benefit today’s art student? How does Studio Incamminati's pre-BFA track program with Rowan University work? Find ...

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The 15th ARC Salon Exhibition will be on view at Sotheby’s NY, 1334 York Ave, New York City from July 16 – July 26 of this year with a public opening on July 17th. RSVPs will be required in o ...

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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 ...

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ARC Living Master Evgeniy Monahov and ARC Associate Living Master Arina Gordienko are finalists in the ModPortrait International Portrait Competition. The works will be exhibited at the Palace Banti ...

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Founded in 1871 Salmagundi is the oldest art club in New York, and former home to many of the great names in American art history. The club is also home to the oldest continuous art auction in the c ...

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8 April, 2021

ARC Living Master Luis Alvarez Roure is holding a solo exhibition at Stone Sparrow Contemporary Gallery, 45 Greenwich Ave, New York, N.Y. from April 14 - May 22, 2021. In the words of the gallery d ...

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ARC Living Master Dan Thompson has recently been interviewed by the Portrait Society of America, New Jersey Chapter. He discusses his experiences as a painter and instructor, including meeting Nelso ...

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Congratulations to ARC Associate Living Master Debra Keirce for winning first and third place in the Manassas Banner Art Competition. The City of Manassas hangs banners on all the light poles in th ...

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ARC Living Master Juliette Aristides live streamed a virtual reception for her solo show, “A Life’s Work” at Custom House Museum & Cultural Center with Peter Trippi, editor-in-chief of Fine Art ...

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ARC Living Master Max Ginsburg has recently posted a Q and A video as a thank you for 30,000 followers on Instagram. To watch the video, please click here.  Visit the ARC Calendar to lear ...

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