The mission of the Chinese International Figure Painting Competition is to promote cultural exchange and the art of figure painting that portrays truth, compassion, and beauty in order to return art to its rightful path.

To learn more about this, please visit our exhibition page and look under special events.

Treat yourself or a loved one to the gift of art! Just enter the coupon codes listed below at checkout to receive your holiday discount.

10% off all orders under $150 archoliday10
15% off all orders over $150 archolidays15
20% off our most popular prints arcpopr20

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We will be offering a 50% discount on memberships between now and December 1, 2011. Access to the high resolution images will be extremely affordable at $14.95 a year, ($1.25 a month) which is tax-deductible. Seniors and students will receive a discounted rate of $9.95/year ($.83/month). Most museums charge for admissions and ARC, as a nonprofit, 501(C)(3), educational foundation, must do the same in order to provide the services it does for generations to come. With the proceeds we hope to raise, we will be able to expand many of our features and become an even greater asset to society. We hope our regular users will understand and be happy to support us by becoming members.

We ask those who can afford it to make an additional donation directed to our scholarships, museum expansion or research and articles.

Click here for more information on this workshop.

Click here for more information on this workshop.

This year we are also introducing 5 NEW awards designed to encourage creativity and ambition in the arts: Most Creative, Best Social Commentary, Best Portrait, Most Ambitious Work, and Best Trompe L’oeil.

As usual, award winners and finalists will be featured on the Art Renewal Center’s website and in our full color catalog.

Please Note: You must be at least a free registered ARC member to apply for the salon because we need your information. Please click here and follow the prompts to either sign in or create a membership to apply for the salon.

The book is now available in the ARC Store for purchase. In addition, Juliette has graciously donated the section on negitive space to be published in our technical article section for those who cannot afford formal training.

To view more on this publication or to order the book, please click here.

There will be an open reception and book signing Friday, November 18th, 6pm – 8pm at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, WA. To learn more about this and other events click here.

In addition, we have given extra pages for the winners, ensuring that each 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner was given its own page and Honorable Mentions are limited to two per page. We have also included enlarged details in many cases and enlarged the size of the images overall. The improvements to the quality of the catalogue are significant this year and we know it will be well received.

As a side note, we have reduced the prices of our older salon catalogues and are offering a special for our 6 year set for the holiday season.

To order the complete 6 catalogue set please click here.

Article generously donated by Eric Santoli.

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To view the entire catalogue please click here.