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Is Nudity in Art Good or Bad? Some people feel that the nude form is something that should be hidden away both in art and the artist's classroom and they frequently write to ARC expressing trep ...

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Spanning 400 years, this exhibition follows women on their journeys to becoming professional artists. Including over 150 works from Tudor times to the First World War, the show dismantles stereotypes ...

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The Art Renewal Center is currently accepting entries to the 23rd ARC Scholarship Competition from May 1- 31, 2023. The scholarship competition is open to all students attending or enrolled to attend ...

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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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This holiday season, Rehs Contemporary Galleries is excited to present a selection of more than 50 small artworks. The five participating artists include ARC Living Artist Stuart Dunkel, as well as ...

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"Sotheby’s December 4th auction of American Art was an extraordinary success, achieving nearly $84 million, the third highest sale total ever in the category.Leading the sale was Norman Rockwell's 1 ...

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23 May, 2024

The 25th NordArt will be open to the public on the grounds of the historic iron foundry Carlshütte. NordArt, one of the largest annual contemporary art exhibitions in Europe, is celebrating its quarte ...

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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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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 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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Drawing transformed radically in 19th-century France, expanding from a means of artistic training to an independent medium with rich potential for exploration and experimentation. A variety of materia ...

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ARC has recently added nine new fine art books to the ARC store. All published by the Antique Collectors Club. The titles include: Arthur Hughes A Catalogue Raisonné, Courts and Courtly Arts in Ren ...

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Due to closures due to COVID-19 virus, Briscoe Western Art Museum is holding their "Night of Artists Show and Sale" online. The dates have been extended from March 27 - July 26, 2020. A ...

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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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26 March, 2021

To mark the 20th anniversary of the event that sparked the museum’s creation, the Briscoe Western Art Museum is expanding its signature exhibition and sale with a first: a hybrid event that includes ...

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Through nearly 50 paintings and drawings, this exhibition follows Maes’s move away from paintings of historical and biblical scenes, where Rembrandt’s influence is most clear, to the scenes of every ...

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1 April, 2016

The Nexus exhibition is co-curated by David Gluck and showcases the work of artists from two seemingly dissimilar artistic disciplines: painting and tattooing.The works in this show are all paintings ...

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13 October, 2016

The Da Vinci Initiative is proud to introduce a new online Bargue Drawing course titled Charles Bargue in the 21st Century. This course takes you from start to finish in creating a drawing from a 19t ...

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We know it has been a very challenging year. We know that many of our schools have been forced to close their doors for extended periods and many have had to transition to alternate methods of instr ...

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The painting that won Best in Show in the 13th International ARC Salon Competition, Ming Yu’s painting “In Bvlag”,  went missing just days before the launch of the traveling exhibitio ...

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ARC Living Master™ Peter Fiore will be participating in the show "New York City Invitational".The exhibition runs from July 25-August 18, 2017 with the opening reception on Thursday, July 27, 20 ...

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This exhibition explores aspects of the lived experience of being an artist in New York City during the 1870s and 1880s, an era of rapid socio-economic change. Drawing largely from the MET's American ...

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The ARC Approved New York Academy of Art is offering a Master of Fine Arts and Certificate of Fine Art Program. The application deadline is March 15, 2020. The Master of Fine Arts is a specialize ...

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October 23 - November 23, 2013Art Essex Gallery - Art Essex Gallery, 10 Main Street, Essex, CT 06426ARC Living Master™ Peter Fiore will be showing his new works.Sunlit Grass, February by Peter Fiore ...

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Texas of the South Pacific by Christian HemmeThree new works have been added to the list of paintings to be exhibited in the traveling exhibition for the 2014/2015 ARC Salon. Today we are adding the ...

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Three new works have been added to the list of paintings to be exhibited in the traveling exhibition for the 2014/2015 ARC Salon. Today we are adding a Rehs Contemporary Galleries Inc. Award Winner, P ...

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Three new works have been added to the list of paintings to be exhibited in the traveling exhibition for the 2014/2015 ARC Salon. Today we are adding the runner up for Best Nude by ARC Living Master™, ...

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We are happy to announce two new works that have been added to the list of paintings to be exhibited in the traveling exhibition for the 2014/2015 ARC Salon. The exhibition will start at the MEAM Mus ...

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We are happy to announce three new works have been added to the list of paintings to be exhibited in the traveling exhibition for the 2014/2015 ARC Salon. Today we are adding the Second Place Anima ...

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We are pleased to announce that Winter by Robert Liberace has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "The passing of seasons marks significant transformations, evoking endless ...

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We are pleased to announce that "The Thinker" by Marta Crawford has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."When I create a work in charcoal, very often what inspires me is not a pa ...

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We are pleased to announce that Miss Rachel by Emanuela De Musis has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."We look up at Miss Rachel and she looks down at us. Her lids are heavy w ...

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We are pleased to announce that Courting Death by Linda Adair has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition.DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, t ...

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We are pleased to announce that Hugging the Shore by Jane Chapin has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "Hugging the Shore is a scene of boaters on the Yellowstone River in M ...

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We are pleased to announce that Blowing Smoke by Nicole Moné has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "Aaron Shikler was my friend and mentor for many years, and this was the ...

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We are pleased to announce that The Storyteller by Cornelia Hernes has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. “The Storyteller is a part of a recent body of work portraying a sele ...

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We are pleased to announce that Sparrow’s Rest by Michael Dumas has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."Every painting inevitably has something to do with the individual. It’s n ...

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We are pleased to announce that Animal Nitrate by Alessandro Tomassetti has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. “The sitter for my painting, Animal Nitrate, is a Colombian mode ...

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We are pleased to announce that I Am My Word by Nik Anikis Skusek has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. “I Am My Word is a still life painted in honor of all brave fireman ...

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We are pleased to announce that The Twilight of Venus by Rubén Belloso Adorna has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "My painting titled The Twilight of Venus aims to be a ref ...

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We are pleased to announce that Fritter and Waste by Emanuela De Musis has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "Discovering Edmund Tarbell's Mrs. Lovering Hathaway at the MFA B ...

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We are pleased to announce that Capturing Beauty by Daniel Gerhartz has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "The emphasis of my entire career has been quite simply, the pursui ...

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We are pleased to announce that 5th Circle by Robert Liberace has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "The painting 5th Circle expresses my fascination with the active human ...

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We are pleased to announce that Minnehaha Falls in Winter by Mary Pettis has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "Minnehaha Falls is treasured by the residents of Minnesota ...

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We are pleased to announce that Fate Casting Judgment upon the Earth by Mica Pillemer has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "Judgment is on the horizon. The earth is in the ...

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We are pleased to announce that The Attributes of Art by Michael DeVore has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "This painting is a tribute to the famous 18th century French ...

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We are pleased to announce that Away from the City by Hsin-Yao Tseng has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "This painting is part of my Disconnect series from 2015. It is a ...

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We are pleased to announce that Stream of the Shadow by Katsu Nakajima has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "This is the Yukawa river, a small stream originating from one ...

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We are pleased to announce that Snow Storm by Nicholas O’Leary has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."It was a grey wintry day. It had been raining for weeks and I was itching ...

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We are pleased to announce that Melancholia by Jason Brady has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "We all wear masks throughout our lives. Sometimes they are donned as an uni ...

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We are pleased to announce that The Teeth of Scatha Worm by Matthew Stewart has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "The Teeth of Scatha Worm depicts a scene from the appendic ...

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We are pleased to announce that The Romance of Land and Sea, Cuttyhunk Island by Joseph McGurl has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."The Romance of Land and Sea is of Cuttyh ...

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We are pleased to announce that Kate in Lace by Roger Schmidt has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "As a person who has spent most of his adult life creating music and playi ...

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We are pleased to announce that In the Hourglass by Catherine Haverkamp has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "In the Hourglass is a visual convergence of multiple conflicts m ...

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We are pleased to announce that [DefaultValue(null)] by Stephen Yavorski has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition "When I designed [DefaultValue(null)], I wanted to explore emot ...

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We are pleased to announce that Ascolta, ti Ricorderà by Miki K. T. Chart has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. “This work was inspired by my observation that a busy modern l ...

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We are pleased to announce that Consolidation by Lucas Bononi has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. Lucas Bononi had always been drawn to painting trompe l'oeils, but Consol ...

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We are pleased to announce that The Heart of the Gem by He Lihuai has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."The greatness of a painting does not depend on its size. In fact, many ...

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We are pleased to announce that Abby by Julie Bell has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."I love solving puzzles. To me, a portrait that I paint, whether it is of a human or ...

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We are pleased to announce that Self Reflections by Kyle Sims has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."While I enjoy painting all the larger felines of the wild, the tiger would ...

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We are pleased to announce that Sibling Bond by Shana Levenson has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. “I consider my paintings to be somewhat of a diary of my life, that I’m h ...

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We are pleased to announce that Suzanne by Katie Runde has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."Suzanne is a portrait of an individual absorbed, midstream in the art of music. ...

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We are pleased to announce that Green Clothes by Wei Han has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."Green Clothes, created with classical painting skills, is an annotation of a pre ...

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We are pleased to announce that Savoy Cabbage in a Box by Bruno Di Maio has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "The beauty and attraction that flowers have always had on pain ...

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We are pleased to announce that Transfiguration by Joseph McGurl has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. “One meaning of the word transfiguration is to change from a certain st ...

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We are pleased to announce that Moored in Calmness by Sergio Roffo has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "Moored in Calmness was inspired by a salt water lagoon on the islan ...

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We are pleased to announce that Bather by Joshua LaRock has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."Little else is as beautiful as natural light revealing the female form, Bather, i ...

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We are pleased to announce that Indian Peahen by Grace Kim has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "I chose to paint the head of the Indian Peahen to draw attention to a bird ...

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We are pleased to announce that Reflection by Matthew Bober has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "I designed this painting around the idea of setting up a still life in w ...

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We are pleased to announce that Life No. 1: Dust Impressions by Hongzheng Wang has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "Selecting a woman, a fish and a burning candle as element ...

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We are pleased to announce that Perched by Lorena Pugh has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. “Like so many artists before me, I relish painting the womanly pear. It is also ...

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We are pleased to announce that Under Heaven by Taffari Crawford has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. "The image is composed of a pair of black, male hands performing the 'b ...

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We are pleased to announce that Laundry by Jeffrey T. Larson has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."Laundry is the latest in a long series of thematically based paintings. Th ...

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We are pleased to announce that Ara Martis by Bruno Vepkhvadze has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."The composition Ara Martis (Altar of Mars) is an allegory of rebirth of ...

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We are pleased to announce that Sword in Hand, Greed of Command by Bruno Galuzzi Corsini has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."Sword in Hand, Greed of Command was inspired by ...

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We are pleased to announce that Non Fiction by Casey Childs has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition."I think every person who has a love for the literary world can relate to this ...

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We are pleased to announce that the DVI Award for the Young Aspiring Artist winner, Perception of Self, painted by 15 year old Ray Wanda Totanes, has been purchased by the Art Renewal Center and added ...

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We are pleased to announce that The Whale Watcher by Duffy Sheridan has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition.“My wife and I have been living in Kauai for a few years now and in th ...

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We are pleased to announce that Envisage by Olena Babak has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. “Winter is the time when I have a chance to spend days in the studio and work ...

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We are pleased to announce that XXII II MMVI by Kazua Torigoe has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition.XXII II MMVI is a play on the classical idea of trompe-l'oeil and is painted ...

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We are pleased to announce that Neck and Neck by Anni Crouter has been added to the 12th International ARC Salon Exhibition. “I often only include a singular subject in my work, bu ...

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15 September, 2014

Artist and art instructor Robert Florczak has created a video lecture for Prager University entitled “Why is Modern Art So Bad?”. The five minute lecture supports the return of classical standards ...

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A new painting, “Poor Yet Rich” by Theresa Schwartze with a write up by Cora Hollema, Schwartze expert, has been added to the ARC museum.Hollema has recently published a book on Schwartze, with an ...

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Originally published in the Angel Academy's blog, written by Michael John Angel himself, Angel explores color composition based on the Holbein Scheme and the Two-tone Silhouette.To view this new art ...

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Eric Bossik, author of the ebook How To Create an Underpainting Like the Old Masters - A Step by Step Guide, has recently contributed a technical article to ARC.How to Create a Classical Still Life ...

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ARC is pleased to offer How to Create an Underpainting Like the Old Masters: A Step by Step Guide e-book by Eric Bossik. This e-book is a short 37 step guide on how to create a wipeout underpa ...

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Bargue Drawing by Andrew BoatrightThe Texas Academy of Figurative Art is pleased to present their first Summer Teen Workshop, July 7-18. Their program and curriculum has great appeal to aspiring you ...

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ARC Allied Organization, Suggested Donation, has recently conducted and posted an interview with ARC Living Master™ Joseph McGurl.To listen to the full podcast, please click here. ...

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Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers has republished yet another video interview with Stephen Gjertson, who is a longstanding artist of the Classical Realist t ...

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Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers has recently republished two video interviews. An interview conducted in 1990 with Richard Lack, the founder of the conte ...

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The Florence Academy of Art offers a full time NASAD accredited Certificate program and intensive workshops in Sculpture. New this year is a two-week all-day course, Sculpting the Portrait from Life ...

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ARC Living Master™ Richard Whitney has recently published a book titled "Advice to a Young Artist - Letters From Ives Gammell to Richard Whitney". Ives Gammell, 20th century artist and te ...

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The Texas Academy of Figurative Art (TAFA) opens TAFA Gallery with the inaugural exhibition "Reconfigure" featuring beautiful works of realist, figurative art by TAFA artists. Opening reception is S ...

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14 October, 2016

We are pleased to announce the next purchase award for the 12th International ARC Salon Competition. Andrea Bills’s drawing titled, Waiting for Alice, has now been added to the ARC Collection."My insp ...

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17 October, 2016

We are pleased to announce the next purchase award for the 12th International ARC Salon Competition. Seth Haverkamp’s painting titled, House and Home has now been added to the ARC Collection"The girl ...

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 Emilio Longo interviews floral artist and recently appointed director of the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art, Michael Klein, in this newly released podcast. The interview covers a ...

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Emilio Longo, recently interviewed Boston School painter and foremost authority on the school's philosophy and methodology, Paul Ingbretson. Paul is also the founder of the ARC ApprovedSM Ingbretson ...

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A new podcast has been added to the Video and Podcast page in the Education section of the ARC Website. Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students and Artist-Teachers, conducts interview ...

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10 November, 2020

Starting on November 12th, ARC Associate Living MasterTM Urban Larsson will be exhibiting new paintings, together with other available works, until December 6th in his studio. Due to the curre ...

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29 August, 2017

The ARC is pleased to announce a new Museum Award will be added to the 13th International ARC Salon Competition titled, The Springville Museum of Art Exhibition Award:Springville Museum The Springvill ...

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