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Five and Under Published on 17 August, 2018

Arcadia Contemporary will be holding the show "Five and Under" for the grand opening exhibition in their new gallery in Pasadena, California. "Five and Under" features contemporary realism works from over 50 international artists, all priced at $5,000 or less. ARC Living Master™  Julio Reyes and ARC Associate Living Master™ Alex Callaway will be among the artists participating in this special exhibition. 

The exhibition runs from August 18 - September 7 with the opening reception: Saturday, August 18, 6 - 9pm.  Aracadia Contemporary is located on Old Town Pasadena, 39 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105. 

To learn more, click here. 

New Podcast Added to Video and Podcast Page Published on 16 August, 2018

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 interviews and audio podcasts with artists who trained during the twentieth century. Visit the website to hear interviews with Katherine Lack, wife of the late twentieth century artist, Richard F. Lack, ARC Living Masters™ Kirk Richards and Allan R. Banks, ARC Approved Atelier^SM Instructor Rob Gutteridge and more. This resource is a growing body of work being conducted by Emilio Longo, visual arts teacher and author.

To access this page, click the "Podcast" tab in the following link: https://www.artrenewal.org/Education/AudioVisual

ARC Allied Organizations Published on 15 August, 2018

The Art Renewal Center is dedicated to bringing realism back to the visual arts. To better accomplish our mission and return sanity back to the visual arts, we have allied ourselves with like-minded organizations in the hopes that through our joint efforts, we will be more successful at bringing realist art back to the world at large.

All of the ARC Allied Organizations, whether they are artists' societies or magazines, have the common goal of promoting high quality representational art.

To learn more about the ARC Allied Organizations, please visit our Allied Organization page.

Water, Wind, and Waves: Marine Paintings from the Dutch Golden Age Published on 14 August, 2018

This exhibition explores the deep, multifaceted relationship the Dutch had with the water in the seventeenth century, including their gratitude for the sea’s bounty and their fear of its sometimes destructive power. Drawn largely from the National Gallery’s own collection, the exhibition features nearly 50 paintings, prints, drawings, rare books, and ship models. From quiet harbor scenes and frozen canals to fierce naval battles pitting Dutch crews against their Spanish foes, the range of images reveals the extraordinary impact the water had on art of the Dutch Golden Age.

The exhibition runs from July 1 – November 25, 2018 at the National Gallery of Art, 3rd and 9th Streets along Constitution Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001.

For more information, please click here.

To learn more about upcoming events, visit the ARC Calendar. 

New Article on ARC Published on 13 August, 2018

How Artists Can Begin Selling More Artwork is a book review of Eric Rhoads’ book Make More Money Selling Your Art, written by Kara Lysandra Ross, ARC Co-Chair and Chief Operating Officer. Eric Rhoads is an artist and a career entrepreneur, with 30 years’ experience of launching companies and media brands, creating startups, and building businesses. He is known to the ARC viewership as being Chairman of the board of Streamline Publishing, Inc, which produces such publications as Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, PleinAir Magazine, and Streamline Art Video, as well as hosts events such as the Plein Air Convention and Expo and the Figurative Art Convention and Expo.

“Considering that there are so many purely conceptual artists out there somehow hitting it big and making a name for themselves without the technical skills to back it up, one has to conclude that there is another factor at play. Many people think it is all about who you know and what connections you have. Although these things can and do help, a lot of what makes an artist successful financially and enables them to sell their works has a lot to do with how they present themselves and their work. In short how they market themselves and their work to the public and the powers that be. When it comes to being financially successful as an artist, painting, sculpting or drawing amazing works is not enough, because if you don't get your works out there for people to see, no one will know about you. In Eric Rhoads book, Make More Money Selling Your Art, he addresses this concept and how to market oneself as an artist in a systematic way to make it easy for artists to understand how to market themselves and their work.”

To read the full article, click here.