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Call for Entries
The Art Renewal Center's
International 2008/2009* ARC Salon™
Win International Recognition Overnight
Have your work seen by 5.5 Million Yearly Visitors.
More than $44,000 in Awards
Compete and Win in 5 Categories
Award Winners and Finalists will be featured on the
Art Renewal Center website
and in our full color
ARC Salon Catalogue.
*This year's Salon will be called: 2008/2009. We are not skipping a year but changing the way we designate the year due to how close the end of the competition comes to the end of the calendar year.”
Best in Show: $10,000 cash award plus gallery space in the Museum section of the ARC's website. Gallery space will include the artist's biographical information accompanied by 1 to 5 web pages of the artist's finest works. The winner will also gain automatic acceptance as an ARC Approved Artist with exemption from the application process and $75 application fee..
The William Bouguereau Award - Emotion, Theme, and the Figure: $3,000
5 First Place Awards: $2,500 awarded in each category
5 Second Place Awards: $1,000 awarded in each category
5 Third Place Awards: $500 awarded in each category
Chairman's Choice Award: 2 Awarded at $500 each
ARC Staff Award: 4 Awarded at $100 each
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Minimum of $10,000 in Purchase Awards* |
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*Works do not have to be for sale to be eligible for the competition. Purchase awards will be chosen from the finalists by our four judges and awarded at the sole discretion of the ARC's Chairman, Fred Ross.
30 Honorable Mentions: Award winners will receive an Award Certificate and have their winning artwork accompanied by their name displayed on the ARC website.
Top 100 Finalists will have their entry accompanied by their name displayed on the ARC website and will also be featured in the 2008 ARC Salon™ Catalog.
Artists may enter and win in one or all 5 categories; there is no limit to the number of slides you may enter.
Figurative: This category includes portraits, formal or informal, groups or individuals. All figurative work, nudes and studies of the human form will also be included.
Landscape: All landscape subjects are acceptable, from cityscapes to seascapes, the real to the imaginary.
Still life: From the traditional to the inventive, works may range from a single object to a room's full interior.
Sculpture: The subject matter is open in this category and includes sculptures created in all mediums.
Drawing: The subject matter is open in this category and may include pencil and graphite drawings, etchings and other forms of printing, charcoal and other mixed mediums.
Nelson Shanks: Nelson Shanks,an ARC Living Master™ has served as professor at the University of the Arts and as distinguished visiting professor in Fine Arts at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. since l990. He is one of the most sought-after teachers in the world and founder of the post-graduate school, Incaminati. His work has been exhibited in many museums and galleries around the globe, and his commissioned portraits include such noted figures as Princess Diana, Ronald Reagan, Lady Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II and Bill Clinton. He is currently represented by the Forum Gallery in New York City.
Gabriel Weisberg PhD: World Expert French Naturalism; Writer/ Lecturer/Scholar; Author of Against the Modern: Dagnan-Bouveret and the Transformation of the Academic Tradition; contributing writer to ARC; Dr. Weisberg’s examination and study of many artists - including Jules Breton, Jules Adler, Albert Besnard, Jean-Charles Cazin and Theodule Ribot - have helped reestablish an awareness and appreciation of the entire 19th Century.
Paul W. McCormack: Executive Director of Programs for the Art Renewal Center, ARC Living Master™, and Award winning portrait artist represented by Portraits Inc. in NYC. Paul has exhibited widely with various establishments; these include the National Arts Club (NYC), the Salmagundi Club (NYC), the American Watercolor Society, Allied Artists of America, the Montclair Arts Museum (NJ), the Noyes Museum (NJ) and the Butler Institute of American Art (OH). His paintings and articles on portraiture have been published in many of Americas leading art magazines and books.
Fred Ross: Current Chairman of the Art Renewal Center and well-known collector of 19th century European and Victorian paintings. Mr. Ross has achieved the reputation of having rewritten art history of the 19th Century, articulating clearly what happened, without the prejudice of Modernism warping the account. His speeches and essays all published on ARC are read by over 300,000 art professionals and students per year and have become required reading in countless classrooms. Currently they are being serialized in 17 languages throughout the world. Being one of the only two acknowledged world experts on William Bouguereau he is the current President of the Bouguereau Committee and with Damien Bartoli as head author ARC is publishing the William Bouguereau Catalog Raisonné in conjunction with the Antique Collectors Club in the UK. Fred received his MA in Art Education from Columbia University. Widely published, his advice and scholarship is currently sought after by museums, galleries, collectors, art historians and all the major auction houses.
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2008/2009 ARC Salon Prospectus |
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You can download entry forms in either PDF or Microsoft Word format.
All entries must be postmarked: September 6, 2008. All winners will be notified by Novermber 30, 2008.
To see the winners from previous ARC Salons™ have a look at:
4th ARC Salon 2007 Winners
3rd ARC Salon 2006 Winners
2nd ARC Salon 2005 Winners
1st ARC Salon 2004 Winners
Inquiries may be addressed to Katie O'Hagan at arcprograms@artrenewal.org
The Art Renewal Center was founded in 1999 for the advancement of traditional representational art. As a registered 501(c) 3 non-profit educational organization and one of the internet's leading art resources, the ARC website contains over 5,200 artists with over 62,000 high-resolution images. Other features include the ARC's annual scholarship competition, dozens of articles, essays and entire books dedicated to the realist movement that can be read online. The website is currently receiving more visitors than the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and is now tracking 450,000,000 hits per year from over 5,000,000 regular visitors. Do not miss this opportunity to have your work seen by millions of art lovers throughout the world. 100% of the proceeds from this competition will be dedicated to the ARC Salon, Scholarship and Museum fund.
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