Art Renewal Center^®

Redwoods, Coastline, Canvas, and Cuisine Published on 11 July, 2025

Join ARC Living Master™ Mary Pettis for a 5-day / 5-night artist retreat like no other! Imagine deepening your connection to Nature through oil painting, surrounded by the awe-inspiring giant redwoods and the dramatic Pacific coastline. Now, envision doing all this while indulging in unparalleled luxury accommodations and savoring gourmet cuisine. This exceptional retreat is designed just for you

No matter your experience level, you’ll expand your technical mastery, learn to distill your artistic vision, and create vibrant, evocative paintings. Each day, Mary provides hands-on guidance through live demonstrations, one-on-one instruction, thoughtful critiques, and inspiring plein air excursions across the breathtaking grounds of The Inn at Newport Ranch. 

Dates: October 18-23, 2025

To Register: 707-962-4818

Email: innkeeper@theinnatnewportranch.com

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Advanced Fine Art Program Published on 10 July, 2025

Studio Incamminati's accredited Advanced Fine Art Program was founded in 2002 by one of the world’s premier portrait artists, Nelson Shanks (1937-2015). Nelson – “unsurpassed as a practitioner and teacher of traditional painting techniques” (D. Dodge Thompson, the National Gallery of Art) – drew upon his own education to design a curriculum for artists of all ages and abilities to access training that hones their eye, builds their expertise, and shapes a rewarding career in professional art. Utilizing charcoal “wipeout” techniques (for form and value), color study developed by Henry Hensche, and an emphasis on the figure as the central subject, Nelson’s original pupils are still training new painters in these methods at Studio Incamminati today.

If you or someone you know is interested in a career in art – or just wants to see how far they can take their work – feel free to reach out to schedule a meeting or tour.

Call 215-592-7910 ext. 2 or email  info@studioincamminati.edu.

To learn more about the program, visit https://studioincamminati.edu/advanced-fine-art-program/.

Open House - Crescent Pond Studios Published on 8 July, 2025

The works of ARC Living Master Richard Whitney, ARC Living Artist Sandy Sherman, and Dennis Morton will be on display and for sale. 

Prints, books, and cards will also be for sale. 

The studio is open on July 12 -13 from noon until 4 at 100 Chalet Dr, Stoddard, NH 03464.

For more information, click here.  

For more events and exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.

Venice and the Ottoman Empire Published on 7 July, 2025

Between 1400 and 1800, Venice—an astonishing city built on hundreds of small islands off the coast of northeast Italy—stood at the crossroads of a vast trade network connecting Africa, Asia, and Europe. To maintain its status as an international emporium, with markets full of spices, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and other goods, Venice acquired overseas territories to its east and cultivated close ties with the Ottomans, whose empire became the wealthiest and most powerful in the Eastern Mediterranean after their conquest of Constantinople in 1453 and widespread expansion in the sixteenth century.

This ambitious cross-cultural exhibition about the Republic of Venice (697–1797) and the Ottoman Empire (ca. 1299–1922) explores a major chapter in world history. Featuring more than 150 works of art, the exhibition draws from the vast and varied collections of seven Venetian museums.

The exhibition is on view until September 1, 2025 at the Frist Art Museum, 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37203.

To learn more, click here.  

For more events, visit the ARC Calendar.

Landscapes - Robyn Asquini Published on 3 July, 2025

ARC Living Artist Robyn Asquini’s work blends figurative realism with expressive abstraction, weaving together fragmented figures with organic forms and textures. This series is especially personal since the subjects in the paintings are friends and fellow creatives. Each painting explores themes of solitude, transformation, and the connection between our inner and outer worlds.

The exhibition runs from June 26 – July 15, 2025 at the Cry Baby Gallery, 1468 Dundas St W, Toroto, ON M6J1Y6.

Gallery hours are 7pm-1am. Closed Tuesdays.

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For more events and exhibitions visit the ARC Calendar.