Posts for February, 2021

We know it has been a very challenging year. We know that many of our schools have been forced to close their doors for extended periods and many have had to transition to alternate methods of instruction. However, we feel it is important to try and regain some normalcy. Entries to our next ARC Scholarship Competition will be received from May 1, 2021 through May 31, 2021 where the Art Renewal Center will once again give out $30,000 in scholarships to students attending ARC Approved Schools.

Scholarship applications will be received through our online entry system throughout the month of May. Entry is free.

The full prospectus will become available on May 1. Materials required to enter include: images of a minimum of 10 works of art, a biography, CV, a 250 word essay about why atelier training is important to the applicant and future career goals, and 3 letters of recommendation (one should be from a current or recent art instructor who the applicant has studied with.)

On March 8, coinciding with International Women's Day, the MEAM will once again claim the importance of women in the world of contemporary art and culture, through the exhibition 'Women Painting (All over the world) '. 

The sample includes 87 works, between painting and drawing, by more than 78 women artists of various origins from 25 different nationalities, such as the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Norway, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France, Holland, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela or Chile, among others.

ARC Associate Living Masters Arina Gordienko, Elizabeth Barden, Jaq Grantford, Vicki Sullivan and ARC Living Masters Anna Wypych and Patricia Watwood will be exhibiting. 

The exhibition runs from March 8 - May 2, 2021 at the MEAM Museum, 5 Carrer de la Barra de Ferro, Barcelona, Spain.

To learn more about this exhibition, please click here. 

Visit the ARC Calendar for more events and exhibitions.  

Beautiful Things is a hauntingly elegant group exhibition featuring landscape, florals, wildlife and more. This exhibition features things classically considered aesthetically pleasing, yet thumbs the line with the adage that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.  ARC Living Master Louis Alvarez Roure is among the exhibiting artists.

The show takes place from March 3 - April 10, 2021 at the Stone Sparrow, 45 Greenwich Avenue, New York, NY, 10014.

For more information click here. 

To learn about other events, visit the ARC Calendar. 

ARC Associate Living Master Mary Ross Buchholz will be among the exhibiting artists at the Texas Masters show.

The exhibition takes place from March 6 - 27, 2021 at the Insight Gallery, 214 West Main Street, Fredericksburg, TX 78624.

To learn more, please click here. 

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ARC is please to welcome Anastasiya Chybireva Fender as a new ARC Associate Living Master!

Anastasiya was born in Ukraine and immigrated with her parents to the US when she was fourteen. She started drawing and painting in her early childhood and received figure-based atelier training growing up. Anastasiya’s meandering path in visual arts educational took her through the rigors of earning Bachelor's and Master's degrees in architecture from The Cooper Union and University of Texas at Arlington, respectively. The combination of architectural training, the purity of realism and strong personal narrative define Anastasiya’s work today.

To view her gallery on ARC, please click here.

ARC is pleased to welcome Jess Le Clerc as an ARC Associate Living Master! 

An emerging artist from Australia’s Sunshine Coast, Jess is primarily a figurative oil painter.

She is also the principal and founder of Art School Co, a private art school that has over 500 weekly students.

To view her gallery on ARC, please click here. 

ARC Living Master Luis Alvarez Roure will be participating in a benefit auction to raise money for the homeless and will donate a percentage of the auction’s proceeds to Habitat for Humanity.

Bidding opens on Friday, 2/19 at noon and closes on Sunday 2/21 at 6pm EST.

To learn more, please click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

We are pleased to welcome Chad Fisher as our newest ARC Living Master! 

"I am inspired by nature to create a visual language to communicate with the world around me. My early interest in nature matured to an absolute admiration for one of nature’s most beautiful creations, the human figure. My work looks back through the history of sculptural forms and engages contemporary art themes and my relationship to the figure today."

To view Chad's gallery on ARC, please click here. 

This exhibition will explore Goya's graphic imagination and how his drawings and prints allowed him to share his complex ideas and respond to the turbulent social and political changes occurring in the world around him. The broadly chronological presentation will follow Goya's evolution and different phases as a graphic artist as well as his approaches to his subjects. Around one hundred works on display will come mainly from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection—one of the most outstanding collections of Goya's drawings and prints outside of Spain; with other works coming from New York, Boston, the Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado and the Biblioteca Nacional.

The exhibition runs from 2/12 - 5/2/21 at the  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York , NY 10028.

To learn more, click here.

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

Come view the cultivated creations of artists as they remind us, and rekindle for us, the radical (Latin:root) in nature. These artists have rendered for you the many ways the botanical world is revered in reclusiveness and in companionship as well as how it is intertwined in our lives.

ARC Living Artist Laurence Saunois will be among the exhibiting artists.

The exhibition runs from 2/6 -2/28/21 at the Lovetts Gallery 6528 E 51st St, Tulsa, OK 74145.

To learn more, click here. 

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

ARC Associate Living Master Vicki Sullivan will be among the participating artists in "Locals" an Australasian Invitational Show.

The exhibition takes place at the Outr'e Gallery, 319 Smith St, Fitzroy, VIC 3065 Australia and runs from 2/12/2021 to 3/7/2021.

To learn more, click here. 

To see other exhibitions, visit the ARC Calendar.

The Salmagundi Club is hosting the exhibition “Figuratively Speaking,” on view February 2-19, 2021.

This will be an exhibition of figurative work and the human form in all of its permutations.

The Salmagundi Club is located on 47 5th Ave, New York, NY, US and is open Tuesday–Friday, 1pm–6pm.

To learn more, please click here.

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

Paint along with ARC Associate Living Master Charles Miano's demonstration live via Zoom on February 11, 2:00 PM EST.

This is a great opportunity to see how Miano will capture the likeness of the model and speak about his method for drawing and learning.

To sign up, click here. 

To find more information about demonstrations, courses and exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.

ARC Living Master Ana Wypych will be among the participating artists at the Anarte Gallery exhibition "All About Love".

The exhibition takes place at the Anarte Gallery 7959 Broadway # 202, San Antonio, Texas 78209 on February 11, 2021 with the opening festivities taking place from 3 - 8pm.

Kindly rsvp a time to reserve your viewing at anartegallery@me.com or text 2104820230.

Temperature checks and masks will be required.

To learn more click here. 

For more exhibitions, please visit the ARC Calendar.