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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. 

ARC Website Feature - My Albums Published on 10 August, 2018

When the Art Renewal Center website relaunched, several new features were added to the site to create a better and more user-friendly experience for our registered members.

My Albums has been designed to help our visitors save and organize their favorite artworks on the ARC website in one convenient place.  Artworks can be saved into as many albums as users wish to create, for easy access.

To utilize this feature, log in to the ARC website, or create a free account if you are not a member.  Click "Search the ARC Museum" and browse for your favorite artworks.  To add an artwork to your album, simply click the star located on top of the image on the artist's main page, or if you are viewing the full size image, click the star at the bottom. A pop-up window will appear showing the image.  Click the blue button that says "Create Album," type in the title you wish to use for your album and click "Create."  To save to an existing album, just click the check mark on the right next to the album of your choice.  Once you have saved the image to an album, click anywhere on the page to close the pop-up window.

Albums can be kept private or be made public to share with your family and friends.

To view all of the images in your album, just navigate to "My ARC" on the menu bar on the top of the website and click "My Albums" to see all of your selections. Over 1,000 albums have already been created by ARC users, so join in and create your own!