18 February, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Laurie Anspach as an ARC Living Artist™.Laurie's career began by earning a BA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. She created designs for leading fashion industry ...
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28 April, 2016
The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Daniel Martin Stephanian as our newest ARC Living Artist™."By backing away from the art for a couple of years, that allowed me to miss parts of the task. ...
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6 December, 2016
The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Alan Merris Bell as our newest ARC Living Artist™.Alan Merris Bell is a fine artist from Portland, Oregon. He attended the San Francisco Academy of Art and ...
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6 March, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Svetlana Kanyo as our newest ARC Living Artist™.Lemons by Svetlana KanyoSvetlana believes that human experience and emotions are most naturally and profoundly expressed throu ...
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11 May, 2017
Clos Vougeut by Gayle
MadeiraARC is pleased to welcome Gayle Madeira as an ARC Living Artist™.Gayle Madeira is an award-winning artist, dancer and choreographer based in New York City. She receive ...
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2 June, 2017
All in a Day's Work by Sammy Watson The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Sammy Watson as an ARC Living Artist™.Sammy Watson has been inspired through the years by artists such as Norman Rock ...
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27 January, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Stuart Dunkel as an ARC Living Artist™! "... nothing exists until light is draped over it. From the nothingness of black we build up to the perceived objects. As in love, ...
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24 February, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Marilyn Ines Rodriguez as an ARC Living Artist™! Marilyn Ines Rodriguez is a professionally trained classical sculptor whose main focus is the traditional representation of ...
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23 May, 2012
We would like to welcome Carrie Pearce as an ARC Living Artist™.Pearce's paintings can be described as expressive realism with surrealist imagery. She combines nature and and human form to c ...
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9 March, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome Anand PKC as an ARC Living Artist™!Anand PKC is fully dedicated to realism and wishes to paint his subjects as true to reality as possible."Creating virtual reali ...
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4 December, 2012
We would like to introduce our first painter of miniatures, Debra Keirce, to the ARC Museum. Her works are usually 4 x 6 inches or smaller. For their size, they are painted with tremendous detail as m ...
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26 October, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome George Angelini as our newest ARC Living Artist™. George Angelini's current work has brought him full circle to why he loved art in the first place, by evoking a mood ...
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4 August, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Alain Amar as our newest ARC Living Artist™."A dreamlike and spiritual artist, he has a sincere and idealistic desire to offer through his artworks: peace, serenity, jo ...
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28 December, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Gulay Berryman as our newest ARC Living Artist.
"Art has been my way of acknowledging the world around me. I have always been a very visual person from a young ...
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12 March, 2018
ARC is pleased to welcome Robbie Fitzpatrick as our newest ARC Living Artist!
"It has been a road of many curves and corners that has led me to watercolor. Along those bends, I kept turning ...
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15 November, 2018
ARC is pleased to welcome Zu Sheng Yu as an ARC Living Artist™!
Zu Sheng Yu constantly challenges himself in an artistic sense. His versatility and creative passion lead him through life to create ...
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28 January, 2019
ARC is proud to welcome Sandy Sherman as our newest ARC Living Artist™!
Sandy Sherman, a native of New Hampshire, has been painting in a realistic manner since 1980. Her forte is still life paintin ...
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24 July, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Robert Dale Williams as a new ARC Living Artist™!
Robert Dale Williams studied classical drawing and painting techniques at the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School ...
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13 August, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Carlos Bruscianelli Torrealba as an ARC Living Artist!
Carlos Bruscianelli is a Realist painter born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1980. In 2000, he began to study Civil Engin ...
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27 September, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Tatiana McWethy as an ARC Living Artist™!
Tatiana McWethy was born in the Ukraine in the town of Berditchev in 1967. At an early age she won prizes for her art in Hungary, ...
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27 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Edi Matsumoto as an ARC Living ArtistTM!
Edi Matsumoto was born and raised in Japan. Her maternal great-grandfather was a traditional Japanese artist who painted birds, ...
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29 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Nathan Bertling as an ARC Living Artist!
Nathan Bertling studied under American master Benjamin F. Long, IV at The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas in Asheville, NC. Lear ...
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29 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Anil Surendran as an ARC Living Artist!
"The thought process prior to sculpting a portrait or figure I find the most creative aspect. How does the person see himself ...
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31 July, 2013
Le Ravissement de Psycheby William BouguereauWe have recently added a letter by Eric Alexander Santoli, who has written in on what it is like to be a young artist today who looks towards the pas ...
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5 June, 2014
Vessels by Julio Reyes"I must take the opportunity to tell you what an honor it is to be a part of your collection, and how truly grateful I am to you and to the ARC Salon Competition. ARC helped m ...
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29 November, 2012
Just wanted to thank you all again for the wonderful work you do and the incredible display of work your site contains. Every visit to your site is a little present I can give myself.Best wishes,Thom ...
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10 April, 2013
Le Gouter
by William BouguereauI just read your article on William Bouguereau - written many years ago, but perfectly relevant today. It affected me enough to write this email. WB played a major r ...
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17 October, 2013
My name is Abigail Camden and I am a senior in high school with a passion for fine art. I am currently on a search for schools to attend next year and I’m feeling a bit discouraged. Coming across ...
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13 February, 2014
Hello,I just wanted to say I greatly appreciate your creation of this extraordinary renaissance, revival and renewal of quality in the art world. I do not have the words to describe how exceptional ...
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24 March, 2014
Read a recently added letter about whether or not the use of photography in art is a tool, a hindrance, or a cheat."Photography is probably the most controversial subject among realist painters toda ...
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30 November, 2015
"Mr. Fred Ross,
I just came across your website a few days ago and it is amazing!!! I also just read your piece Why Realism? and it speaks volumes. As an artist for over 30 years, I just could not un ...
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29 August, 2011
ARC is proud to announce the arrival of the newest addition to the website, the ARC Exhibition Page.
Click to see the Exhibition Page
In an attempt to better assist in art education, we though ...
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16 September, 2011
We would like to officially welcome Mikel Olazabal as an ARC Associate Living Master™.
His art covers a wide variety of themes, having the description of the figures and the narration of t ...
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20 January, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome James Van Fossan as an ARC Associate Living Master™!
"I have gravitated towards the natural, the heroic and most importantly, the human. As long as the subject mat ...
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5 April, 2012
ARC is pleased to welcome ARC Associate Living Master™ Donald Clapper! Clapper's work has received national as well as international recognition and has been featured in many museums and p ...
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12 November, 2013
Pears in Plasticby Dario CampanileBorn April 21, 1948 in Rome, Italy. Dario started painting in oil at age 14. He spent time concentrating on painting in classical style influenced by Caravaraggio a ...
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27 December, 2012
ARC would like to welcome Lance Richlin to the Art Renewal Center Approved Artist™ and Living Master's™ Gallery.Lance is an American artist and teacher. He is the author of a book on portrait drawing ...
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7 January, 2013
We would like to welcome John Pototschnik to the Art Renewal Center's Artist and Living Master's Gallery™.Many may remember his work from the recent 2011/2012 International ARC Salon, where he won t ...
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7 February, 2013
We would like to welcome Bryan Larsen to the ARC Website. Bryan has been drawing and painting since childhood. As a young person he was also fascinated with math and science and always found creativ ...
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26 April, 2013
Jason Patrick Jenkins was born and raised in Newfoundland, Canada, and discovered drawing in a time before he can remember. About his work he has said the following:"I want to contribute to a revival ...
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10 December, 2013
Spring Covering by Sergio RoffoItalian-born artist, Sergio Roffo, was born in 1953 and immigrated to the United States in 1961. He has been inspired by the work of such American traditional painters ...
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8 January, 2014
Roger Dale Brown is avid about traveling, studying, teaching, and competing in national painting competitions. These experiences expand his knowledge of history, nature, and architecture, which insp ...
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6 May, 2014
Vicki Sullivan is an Australian Realist painter who focuses on portraiture.She is a member of Portrait Artists Australia and the Melbourne Society of Women Sculptors and Painters founded in 1902, ha ...
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8 May, 2014
Born in 1972 in Moscow, Russia, Olga Rybakova learned how to paint in an art studio as a childhood. Rybakova drew nature in the open air and drew animals at the zoo winning an art competition while ...
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8 July, 2014
Veil of Expressions 2by Marcos DamascenaMarcos Damascena was born in Poções Bahia in 1981 and rooted in São Paulo, where he began his artistic career studying with what was considered the biggest na ...
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16 October, 2014
John Rowe has created work for such companies as Disney, National Geographic, and Harper Collins, along with numerous private and public commissions.“A great painting much like a great movie, book o ...
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31 October, 2014
ARC is pleased to welcome Jerry Luisi as an ARC Associate Living Master™. "The subject matter of all my art is primarily the human figure. My work is a reflection of my basic view of the positive na ...
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20 July, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome Mary Ross Buchholz as a new Associate Living Master™!
Drinking Buddies by Mary Ross BuchholzMary Ross Buchholz is from a pioneering, ranching family heritage and those time- ...
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25 August, 2015
Wildfire by Xiang ZhangARC is pleased to welcome Xiang Zhang as an Associate Living Master!Born in the year of the Horse, Xiang Zhang grew up in China. After graduating from The Central Academy of D ...
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17 November, 2015
ARC is pleased to welcome Eric Armusik as an ARC Associate Living Master™.Born in 1973, fine artist Eric Armusik grew up in the northeastern coal region of Pennsylvania. Once one of the largest coal m ...
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21 January, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Jane Jones as an Associate Living Master™!Harmony by Jane Jones"The flowers in her paintings all come from her gardens, or a local orchid grower, and are infused with the cry ...
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4 February, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Svetlana Cameron as our newest Associate Living Master™! “Svetlana Cameron (b. 1978) is a Russian-born British portrait artist dedicated to the revival of traditional fine a ...
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12 February, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Richard T Scott as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!Working between New York and Paris, Richard is a painter, writer, and designs coins for the United States Mint. He ...
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23 February, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Tina Garrett as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!In the few short years since Tina's introduction to oil she has studied intently the Selective Start Method described ...
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4 March, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Edward Little as our newest Associate Living Master™!Edward Little is a professional artist and designer with over thirty five years' experience. Focusing on the dramatic e ...
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2 May, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Doug Zider as our newest Associate Living Master™!"I live a stone's throw from the water of The Great South Bay. The bay itself runs along the southern coast of central Long ...
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12 August, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Gabriel Picart as an ARC Associate Living Master™.Gabriel Picart was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1962, where he still lives and works. He considers himself a realist painter ...
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16 August, 2016
We are pleased to welcome David Cheifetz as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™.David is an internationally acclaimed and collected artist. A former architect, David began learning to paint in 200 ...
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26 August, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Gezien van de Riet as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!"The beauty of nature always mesmerizes me. To capture that beauty requires long and close observation. In that ...
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20 January, 2017
Storm Approaching by Heidi PalmerARC is pleased to welcome Heidi Palmer as an ARC Associate Living Master™!"Light, air, and the meaning of time are the three elements that I try to address in my paint ...
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16 February, 2017
Bella by Carla D'aguannoCarla D'aguanno began her career as a movie poster artist and then as an illustrator of young adult and romance covers for several New York publishing companies. After she marr ...
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18 May, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Barden as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!Elizabeth Barden is a fine artist with an established studio practice. Her work is in several collections includin ...
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17 July, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Leszek Piotrowski (Lesstro) as an ARC Associate Living Master™. Spices of Arabia by Leszek PiotrowskiThe technique and subjects of Lesstro's paintings and drawings are ...
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11 April, 2012
ARC is happy to welcome ARC Associate Living Master™ Ed Copley!Copley developed his depth of understanding technique through restoring old master paintings and now incorporates this knowled ...
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30 August, 2012
We would like to Welcome a new Associate Living Master™, Jon Bøe Paulsen, to the ARC Artist and Living Master's Gallery. This Norwegian artist has exhibited in many locations from Norway to England to ...
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9 October, 2012
Over the last 15 years Garin has been working primarily in the "Public Art Realm" as a Muralist creating large scale commissioned works for municipalities in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington ...
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15 April, 2015
An Elderly Woman from Southern Iraqby Ali Ghassan Al-Zobaede The Art Renewal Center is pleased to welcome Ali Ghassan Al-Zobaede as an ARC Associate Living Master™!Born in Babel, Iraq, Ali Ghassan A ...
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27 September, 2018
ARC is pleased to announce Charles Kapsner as a new ARC Associate Living Master™.
“'Remember nature is your teacher, I am your guide',was a prevailing theme in the studio of Nerina Simi (1890 ...
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24 January, 2013
Renowned artist, Thomas Kegler, is a self-taught painter, producer, and certified teacher residing in Western New York. He is a Senior Fellow and instructor for the Hudson River Fellowship. Kegler' ...
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25 October, 2016
ARC is pleased to welcome Arina Gordienko as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™. Arina Gordienko is an internationally acclaimed artist who is often known under her artist's name of 'ARINA ...
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30 November, 2016
Curiosity by Terje Adler MorkARC is pleased to welcome Terje Adler Mork as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!Terje Adler Mork was born in Odda, Norway in 1949. He has a background within ...
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22 September, 2017
Zimou Tan was born and raised in Canton, China and apprenticed to Chinese Master Artist Le, YiFeng at age 12. At age 14 he immigrated to America with his family. Mr. Tan graduated from the Academy of ...
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25 September, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Denise Antaya as a new Associate Living Master.
"We are surrounded by beauty. I often wonder if people see the world as I do. Do they see the magic that is all around ...
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29 September, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Mark Heine as an ARC Associate Living MasterTM.
"I am a storyteller. My art is the expression of a carefully chosen moment, captured from a larger narrative. This story is c ...
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10 October, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Lee Alban as an ARC Associate Living MasterTM.
Lee's career is characterized by an interest and ability to realistically represent a variety of subject matter and is marked ...
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13 October, 2017
ARC is pleased to welcome Josh Tiessen as a new Associate Living MasterTM. Josh Tiessen is a young international award-winning artist from Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada. Considered one of ...
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8 December, 2017
Yuehua was born in 1959 in Beijing, China. Yuehua's mother was an art teacher and she taught him how to draw. He participated in art activities in school. His dream was to enter the Academy of Fine ...
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16 March, 2018
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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22 March, 2018
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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1 June, 2018
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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31 July, 2018
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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14 November, 2018
ARC is pleased to welcome Anni Crouter as our newest Associate Living Master™!
Born in Chicago, but growing up in Flint, Michigan, Anni Crouter started painting and drawing before she could read or ...
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23 January, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Linda Schroeter as an Associate Living Master™!
Linda worked as a commercial illustrator and graphic designer in the corporate world for over 28 years. During that time, s ...
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30 January, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome John Cogan as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™!
John paints almost exclusively in acrylic, working on canvas or panel. He strives to capture creation’s splendor ...
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1 February, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Stephen Jesic as our newest ARC Associate Living Master™.
Stephen has been an artist from his youth, and it has been now more than twenty years since he was able to devote ...
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28 February, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Kevin Murphy as an ARC Associate Living Master™!
With no measurable formal training, Kevin Murphy began his career in the art industry at the age of 23 as an illustrator. ...
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11 April, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Hiroki Fukuda as an ARC Associate Living Master™.
Hiroki Fukuda learned the foundations of oil painting with Hiroshi Furuyoshi in 2010.
His style is influenced by the ...
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11 July, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Sheri Farabaugh as an ARC Associate Living Master™!
"I began painting after careers in tax accounting and biochemistry; I guess that’s just about as far from art as y ...
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31 July, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Paige Bradley as an Associate Living Master™!
Paige Bradley’s powerful sculptures of dynamically posed figures showcase more than just physical strength and passion —they ...
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21 August, 2019
ARC is pleased to welcome Matthew James Collins as a new ARC Associate Living Master™.
Matthew James Collins was nurtured in an artistic family. His enthusiasm for art was encouraged from ...
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23 March, 2020
ARC is please to welcome Matthew Bird as an ARC Associate Living Master!
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Matthew Bird graduated with honors from the Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, New York, in 20 ...
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26 March, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Jaq Grantford as an ARC Associate Living Master!
Jaq Grantford is an Australian artist based in Melbourne and has worked extensively as an artist.
Ever since she was a ch ...
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20 April, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Alana Knuff as an ARC Associate Living Master!
The analytical and artistic shape of her life were influenced by her mother, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, a ...
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27 August, 2020
ARC is pleased to present John Whytock as our newest ARC Associate Living MasterTM!
“Beauty, like truth, exists. And we, as human beings, have an almost divine capacity to recognize it. Art, for me ...
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8 September, 2020
ARC is pleased to welcome Evgeniy Monahov as an ARC Associate Living MasterTM.
Evgeniy Monahov is a Russian painter whose works have been featured in exhibitions and collections in the US, Spain, R ...
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17 June, 2016
Located in the Netherlands just 30 minutes from Amsterdam, Classic Art Atelier teaches the methods and techniques that are passed on through the centuries from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth c ...
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27 June, 2014
Figure Drawing by Sergey ChubirkoThe mission of the Russian Academy of Art, Florence is to teach the fundamental principles, methods and techniques of classical art diligently transmitted over the c ...
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29 September, 2014
The Academy of Realist Art has opened a new branch of their already successful ARC Approved™ school. Set in the heart of the beautiful historic city of Edinburgh, Scotland, The Academy of Realist Ar ...
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25 April, 2011
The Texas Academy of Figurative Art - TAFA is now an ARC Approved™ Atelier.
Click here to view the TAFA Gallery in the ARC Approved™ Ateliers and Schools section.
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28 October, 2008
The Southern Atelier, is now an ARC Approved™ Atelier.This is our first atelier in Florida and we are happy to welcome Charles Miano and The Southern Atelier to this most selective group.Click ...
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