TIAC Academy is happy to announce that Odd Nerdrum will be holding a workshop from November 4 - 9, 2019 at their location on Via Luna 8r, Florence, Italy.

As a member of a community that values, respects and celebrates representational art, TIAC would like to offer those who sign up for the workshop a 10% early bird discount valid from the August 1-31, 2019.

In order to take the course, go to https://tiacacademy.com/master-level-workshops/odd-nerdrum-master-workshop, book your spot and use the following discount code during the checkout: NERDRUM2019_ARC

Please note that the discount will expire on September 1st, so the full price will be charged after that date.

For further information, please check the details of the workshop on the website or write to tiacacademy@tiacg.com putting "Nerdrum Workshop" in the subject of your email.

ARC is pleased to welcome the Cumberland Atelier as an ARC Approved Atelier^SM!

The Cumberland Atelier believes that creativity is supported by knowledge; that on a foundation of understanding, artists can spread their wings and fly. The goal is to provide a foundation of the requisite skills in drawing and painting, both conceptually and practically. The Cumberland Atelier work with talented people of all ages, nurturing and instructing them in the basics such as anatomy, color theory, proportion, perspective and composition.

To learn more, please click here. 

This exhibition showcases the Lyman Allyn’s collection of European paintings, highlighting a selection of portraits, history paintings, religious scenes, landscapes, still-lifes, and genre scenes from the early Renaissance through the 19th century. Although European paintings have been part of the collection since the museum’s founding in 1932, the galleries currently emphasize American art, with European paintings infrequently on view.

Brought to Light offers the opportunity to reexamine the museum’s European paintings and share their rich stories with the public.

The exhibition runs from July 12, 2019 – September 20, 2020 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams Street, New London, CT 06320.

To learn more about this exhibition, please click here.

To see more events, please visit the ARC calendar.

To commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, The Met presents the artist’s painting Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness, a special loan from the Vatican Museums. The unfinished painting provides viewers with an extraordinary glimpse into Leonardo's creative process, and a close examination of the paint surface reveals the presence of his fingerprints. The display of this monumental masterpiece pays homage to one of the most renowned geniuses of all time.

The exhibition runs from July 15–October 6, 2019 at The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028.

For more information, please click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

This exhibition examines the varying landscape of the Northeast over the last hundred or so years. Drawn largely from the Lyman Allyn’s permanent collection, this exhibition includes watercolors of the forest, fields, hills, shoreline, and sea. It also explores the built environment, with urban and suburban scenes that reflect on changing demographics. The exhibition looks at watercolor as a medium, exploring different artists’ techniques and considering how the quick-drying pigments are useful for artists working outdoors.

The exhibition runs from April 27 – August 3, 2019 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams Street, New London, CT 06320.

For more information, please click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

ARC is pleased to welcome Robert Dale Williams as a new ARC Living Artist™!

Robert Dale Williams studied classical drawing and painting techniques at the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art. Upon completing a Master of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in painting at the Academy, Williams continued his studies in the studio of the internationally recognized Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum.

Williams draws his inspiration from nature and a lifelong concern for human rights. His work reveals an unflinching perspective of mankind's capacity for tyranny, and the tragedies of warfare.

To see his gallery on ARC, please click here. 

ARC is pleased to welcome the Galvez Atelier as a new ARC Approved Atelier^SM!

Galvez Atelier offers a curriculum with a sequence of classes carefully designed to help the student develop in drawing and painting. This method is akin to the practice in European ateliers of the past. However, this is a timeless approach that has worked throughout the history of humanity and across cultures. It is implemented at the atelier to provide the proper foundations for the learner to know how to create works that possess intrinsic excellence. The program then offers modular classes to continue one's artistic education.

To learn more, please click here.

PoetsArtists Magazine has recently published an issue of their magazine featuring "The Tempest" by Randalf Dilla, who won the PoetsArtists Magazine award in the 14th ARC Salon Competition. The article about Dilla was written by Lorena Kloosterboer.

“In Tempest, Dilla depicts dynamics that he considers his artistic inspirations. We see a portrait of his beautiful young wife amongst elegantly framed masterpieces on a wall—in this case Filipino masters displayed in the National Museum in the Philippines. The museum wall and the paintings are swept by a powerful airstream embodying the energy that grips the artist when he contemplates great works of art.”

To purchase a copy of the issue and to read the full article, click here.

Fine Art Today has recently published an announcement about the 14th ARC Salon on their website.

"The Art Renewal Center is pleased to present the winners and finalists of the 14th International ARC Salon Competition! This year the ARC received over 4,300 entries from 73 countries."

To read the full article, click here.

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Free of charge and open to the public, Treasures from Chatsworth will be on view from 28 June through 13 September 2019 in Sotheby’s New York galleries, located at 1334 York Avenue. Forty-five masterworks have been selected to represent the remarkable breadth of the Devonshire Collection – fine art from Rembrandt van Rijn to Lucian Freud, furniture and decorative objects from the 16th century to 21st-century design, and exceptional jewels, garments, and archival materials commemorating historic occasions will all be on view to the public.

For more information, please click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

ARC is pleased to welcome Ricardo Jose Mujica as an ARC Living Master™!

Born and raised in New York City, Ricardo Jose Mujica studied art at the High School of Art and Design under Max Ginsburg and Irwin Greenberg, Parsons in Paris under Keith Long, and at Parsons School of Design /New School for Social Research under Kes Zapkus, Stuart Diamond, and Randall Enos, where he won a full Presidential Scholarship.

To see his gallery on ARC, please click here. 

Congratulations to Aliakbar Beigi for winning the 14th International ARC Salon Competition’s People’s Choice Award with his work of "Kindness".

For the first eight days after the ARC Salon Competition results posted to the ARC website, we asked our viewership to vote for their favorite works. Each visitor was able to vote for up to ten works but could only vote once for any given work. 6,194 votes were cast by 3,241 individual voters.

To see the full results visit the people’s choice award page.

The California Art Club, an ARC Allied Organization, and The Old Mill Foundation will mark the 20th anniversary of their gallery partnership with a celebratory “Paint/Sculpt-Out” at the historic site on Sunday, July 14, from 1 to 4 p.m.

The public is invited to attend this free family-friendly event and watch the artists at work. Children will be provided with supplies for creating their own paintings inspired by The Old Mill and its nearly two-acres of gardens.

The two nonprofit organizations joined forces in 1999 to provide a dedicated venue – the California Art Club Gallery at The Old Mill – for presenting rotating themed exhibitions that showcase contemporary-traditional fine art created by the Club’s artist members, which include many of the country’s most revered representational painters and sculptors.

During the July 14 event, artists associated with the century-old arts organization will be creating new artwork for the display, 20th Anniversary Exhibition: California Art Club Gallery at The Old Mill, which will unveil in September.

For further information about the Paint/Sculpt-Out, contact the California Art Club at (626) 583-9009 or visit californiaartclub.org.

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

ARC is pleased to welcome Sheri Farabaugh as an ARC Associate Living Master™!

"I began painting after careers in tax accounting and biochemistry; I guess that’s just about as far from art as you could get. But a love of drawing and painting as a child and teen stayed with me until time permitted, and from the moment I took my first class as an early retiree, I was committed to learning everything I could about painting."

To view Sheri's gallery, please click here.

After a decade of work, ARC Associate Living Master™ Charles Gilbert Kapsner is nearing completion on a memorial to Minnesota's veterans.

"Kapsner has put a lot of Minnesota models — human or otherwise — into the five epic murals he's spent the past decade painting for the Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery, where 7,300 former service members are buried just north of Little Falls."

To read the full news article, please click here.

The Frick Collection presents a selection of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs related to Giambattista Tiepolo’s first significant project outside of Venice, a series of ceiling frescoes for Palazzo Archinto in Milan that were destroyed during World War II.

Tiepolo in Milan includes more than fifty objects from collections in the United States and Europe to tell the story of this important commission.

The exhibition is open until July 17, 2019 at the The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021.

For more information, please click here.

Visit the ARC calendar for more events.

Vote for your favorite!

Visit the People’s Choice Award section on the ARC Salon results page and click on the vote button below the works of your choice to cast your votes. Cast up to 10 votes for 10 of your favorite works. This option will be available for the first seven days results are live on the ARC website. Users need to login or create a free account in order to vote and for us to keep track of voters to ensure each individual only casts their 10 vote limit once.

VOTING DATES: JULY 1 - 8, 2019

The winner of the People’s Choice Award will be revealed on July 12th.

The Art Renewal Center is pleased to present the winners and finalists of the 14th International ARC Salon Competition! This year the ARC received over 4,300 entries from 73 countries. Our finalists represented here today constitute approximately 35% of works submitted, just over 1500 works. ARC has acquired 16 new works for the ARC collection, valued at over $125,000.

Our highest award, Best in Show, went to Gregory Mortenson, for his figurative entry of 'Standing Proud', where Mortenson depicts a young girl he met while working on a humanities project in Haiti. About the work, Mortenson said, "This young girl is growing up in an orphanage in Haiti. She has survived an earthquake and a hurricane and is still standing proud." With her feet firmly planted on rocky soil, this contemporary depiction of human strength meets the viewer eye to eye.

To view the full results visit the 14th ARC Salon Results Pages.