If you believe you would qualify and are interested in becoming a member of the most prominent realist art foundations and would like to have your work seen by nearly 5.5 million yearly visitors, who are targeted art lovers, collectors, gallery owners and museum officials, ARC is now ready to review your work.

Procedure

All artists will be judged exclusively on the basis of merit by the ARC board of Judges which will consist of a minimum of four judges at all times and whose expertise and credentials are posted on the ARC website. All applicants will be notified as to whether or not they have qualified as ARC Approved™.

Living Artist™ Membership

Acceptance as an ARC Living Artist™ or Living Master™ includes many benefits:

• Living Artists are allowed up to 30 images of their finest work. This includes 30 high-resolution images and 30 large thumbnails with the title, date, medium and dimensions of each work. However, ARC reserves the right not to place any information or images which it deems inappropriate at ARC's sole discretion. Living Artists may include their biographical and contact information with their gallery of images along with any awards, reviews and commentary (must be in digital ready-to-use format, ARC reserves the right to edit this material).
• ARC Artists may submit new items of current exhibitions, publications, notable awards and workshops to be posted at ARC's discretion.
• All ARC Artists will automatically receive regular ARC updates and prospectus for all upcoming competitions.
• All ARC Artists are invited to submit articles and essays for possible publication on the ARC website.

• A $75.00 non-refundable application and processing fee.
• An annual membership fee of $300.00 for all artists accepted into the Living Artists Gallery or the Living Masters Gallery.
• A one time set up fee of $200.00 is charged to help offset the costs involved in preparing the artists gallery.
• Additional images may be included in an artist's gallery at $10.00 per image during the initial set up (only applies if more than 30 are submitted and accepted).
• Add Two New Images with an announcement and links in the ARC News Blog for instant interest and attention to your Gallery for $45 at any time. For your best exposure: you might add images quarterly and include your latest news.
• Replacement or change of an image can be requested at any time and will be charged a rate of $5.00 per image.
• There is no charge for updates of an artist’s biographical or contact information.

• Signed and completed application form.
• A minimum of 10 and a maximum of 30 images of the artist's finest works. This may be submitted in the form of High-resolution digital images as JPEG or TIFF files supplied on a CD. We will also accept 35mm slides, 4 x 5 transparencies, or good quality 8 x 10 photographs. If the artist is accepted and cannot supply digital images of their works for the artists gallery an added cost of $5 per image will be required for labor to scan materials.
• Image preparation: Each submitted image must include the title of artwork, medium used to create the artwork, date, and dimensions.
• Sculptors must submit a minimum of 2 images of a single sculpture from different views.
• Current CV, résumé and/or biography.
• A non-refundable $75.00 application and processing fee must be included with all submissions.

Download Application If you are interested in becoming a member of one of the largest realist art foundations and would like to have your work seen by nearly 5.5 million yearly visitors, who are targeted art lovers, gallery owners and museum curators, ARC is now ready to review your work. Questions regarding this application may be directed to Paul W. McCormack at pwmccormack@aol.com [ MSWord | PDF ]