Sponsors

Thank you to our ARC Salon Sponsors who have helped to fund our expanding competition. We thank them for their dedication to fine art and their generous donations, to help the vision of an international exhibition and our multi-genre competition to inspire, promote, and defend the advancement of the Representational Art Movement in the 21st century.

If you are interested in sponsoring an ARC Salon™ Category, please write to Kara Ross at kara.ross@artrenewal.org

Sponsored by Realism Today and Realism Live

Sponsored by Watts Atelier of the Arts

Watts Atelier of the Arts, founded 33 years ago by Jeffrey R. Watts and his wife Krista Watts, is located in the sleepy beach community of Encinitas, California. It is modeled after nineteenth-century European Ateliers with a focus on the Frank Reilly method of comparative measurement. At Watts Atelier, we believe the path to prosperity is paved with superior knowledge, a strong work ethic and a clear focus of purpose. The emphasis of the training employed at the Atelier is built upon an exceptionally strong foundational skill base to help students work toward the upper levels mastery. The Atelier brings together students of all ages and skill levels from professional to novice in an environment of visual learning that is highly structured with a low student-to-teacher ratio.

11 years ago they launched Watts Atelier Online; a learning platform that brings the curriculum of the school online. With over 1500 hours of content the program draws upon the 32 year curriculum of the brick and mortar. This helps to create a truly unique online experience that helps the student to move from beginner to a professional level in a user friendly manner. With the addition of many Master Classes the student can take their skills even further in design, color and illustration as they prepare their portfolios to enter the profession of their choice.

Jeff and his select team of dedicated instructors, who all received their primary training in the Watts Method, work as both teachers and full-time professional fine-artists, illustrators and conceptual artists. Whether it is through online or the brick and mortar school, you will be able to learn from their many years of experience in the professional field. One of the first schools to be accredited by Art Renewal Center, Watts Atelier is recognized the world over as one of the truly great destinations for learning the pure craft of drawing and painting in the traditional lineage of the great art institutions of the past. They strive to uphold their motto, "Preserving the Tradition of the Masters."

Sponsored by International Artist

International Artist Publishing is the proud publisher of five major art magazines that are each devoted to connecting artists and collectors within the American art market and beyond. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, IAP has published monthly magazines since 2005, and has slowly expanded its coverage to include new and exciting genres that have thrilled readers and collectors. The five titles are: American Art Collector, devoted to contemporary American realism; American Fine Art Magazine, which highlights historic American fine art; Western Art Collector, which explores artwork related to the American West; Native American Art magazine, the only magazine devoted to both historic and contemporary artwork exclusively by Native American artists; and International Artist, a magazine devoted to artists, featuring art demos by top artists from around the world. In addition to these five titles, IAP also offers art insight with The American Art Collective podcast, which airs new episodes every Tuesday.

IAP is proud to be an affiliate with the Art Renewal Center, and to celebrate that partnership we are offering $10 off any of the titles by visiting the websites and using the promo code ARC2025

To learn more visit www.internationalartist.com

Sponsored by The Florence Academy of Art

The Florence Academy of Art, one of the Art Renewal Center's first approved schools, has been advancing the training and techniques of classical painting and sculpture for over 30 years. It continues to form highly skilled artists who are important members of the Realist Art movement of the 21st century. The Florence Academy recognizes the importance of the ARC Salon as an international showcase for classically trained artists through its online and live exhibitions. Through its sponsorship of the "Fully from Life" Category, the Florence Academy hopes to help ARC continue to cultivate the global audience of students, artists and patrons. Students applying to the Florence Academy of Art seek, and find, a methodology rooted in a visual and humanistic approach that connects us, through the academies of the nineteenth century, to the great masters of the past. The time-tested curriculum, with its focus on drawing (particularly of the human figure), is designed to build skills progressively thus allowing students at any level to develop their ability to represent a subject from life and gain confidence in expressing their artistic voice and vision. The Florence Academy of Art is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) and awards undergraduate certificates and graduate degrees.

Sponsored by FASO

FASO is the world's leading artist website builder and marketing platform designed specifically for fine artists. FASO powers the websites for many of the most renowned living artists, and helps streamline many important art marketing tasks to help you sell more art online.

We inspire artists to inspire the world because creating art creates magic. And the world is in desperate need of magic. We offer free and paid media, information, education, community, apps and websites.

Join us, because Fortune Favors the Bold Brush.

Sponsored by Princeton Academy of Art

Princeton Academy of Art is located in the heart of Princeton, NJ. Our institution presents a unique educational experience in the European Classical tradition through merging the methods of classical atelier education and the Russian academic approach. Following in these traditions, instruction is a focused immersion into human anatomy, perspective, and tactile approaches to analyzing form. By rigorously studying these methods alongside concrete principles of value, color and composition, students are able to traverse various media and techniques to interpret the world around them in a way that suits their temperament and vision.

Our guiding principle is a belief that the study of visual art is a practice of communication and support. In the face of the infinite number of pitfalls and discoveries that artists will encounter in their careers, this foundation ensures that they will learn to create connections with not only their peers but the broader artistic community. Our instructors are exhibiting artists who configure each class to enhance and encourage the artistic growth of our students. They are not only instructors, but mentors and professional connections as well.

Our institution aims to bring philosophical, aesthetic, and technical research back into the contemporary artists practice. Through connections with philosophers, poets, art historians and scientists, we are continuing the humanist dialog that was born during the age of the Renaissance and faded during the 20th century due to fragmentation between disciplines of higher education.

To learn more or to register today, please contact us directly at info@princetonacademyofart.com

Sponsored by International Artist

International Artist Publishing is the proud publisher of five major art magazines that are each devoted to connecting artists and collectors within the American art market and beyond. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, IAP has published monthly magazines since 2005, and has slowly expanded its coverage to include new and exciting genres that have thrilled readers and collectors. The five titles are: American Art Collector, devoted to contemporary American realism; American Fine Art Magazine, which highlights historic American fine art; Western Art Collector, which explores artwork related to the American West; Native American Art magazine, the only magazine devoted to both historic and contemporary artwork exclusively by Native American artists; and International Artist, a magazine devoted to artists, featuring art demos by top artists from around the world. In addition to these five titles, IAP also offers art insight with The American Art Collective podcast, which airs new episodes every Tuesday.

IAP is proud to be an affiliate with the Art Renewal Center, and to celebrate that partnership we are offering $10 off any of the titles by visiting the websites and using the promo code ARC2025

To learn more visit www.internationalartist.com

Sponsored by PleinAir Magazine, Plein Air Today, Plein Air Convention & Expo, and PleinAir Live

PleinAir Magazine, from Streamline Publishing, Inc., is for artists and collectors who follow or participate in the exciting plein air painting movement worldwide. It's America's number one-selling representational art magazine (source: Barnes & Noble newsstands) and focuses on the highest-quality landscape artists who do studio and outdoor landscape, figure in landscape, architectural, floral, and other paintings. To learn more, sign up for our free daily newsletter, Plein Air Today, at OutdoorPainter.com/pat. Subscribe to PleinAir Magazine at PleinAirMagazine.com.

PleinAir Live is an online virtual training event that takes place over four days annually for a worldwide audience. It began as a COVID-era replacement for the Plein Air Convention & Expo, and continues post-COVID to serve the thousands of people who cannot travel to in-person events for various reasons. Each event features an Essential Techniques Day for beginners and those interested in learning about the plein air lifestyle, about painting outdoors (which has a lot of special nuances), and about using various mediums like oil, watercolor, pastel, gouache, and acrylic. Essential Techniques Day is followed by three content-packed days with demonstrations from the leading plein air artists in the world. The event features Q&As with artists, interactive sessions to meet fellow artists, critiques, demonstrations, and a daily cocktail reception online. Artists attending have reported high growth from our immersion program, consisting of concentrated learning along with the ability to access the program on their own time with replays. You can learn more at PleinAirLive.com.

The Plein Air Convention & Expo is a history-making event where plein air painters gather annually to improve their skills, connect with old and new friends, and become a part of the worldwide plein air movement. The convention offers five stages with over 80 of the world's top painters instructing in oil, watercolor, pastel, and other mediums, followed by daily painting in various locations as a complete group. (It's an overwhelming sight to see a thousand people painting together at one location.) PACE offers a pre-convention workshop for beginners as well as pre-convention workshops by top masters in different mediums. The 2024 convention is being held at Great Smoky Mountain National Park and will offer pre-convention workshops from Joseph Paquet in oil, Aaron Schuerr in pastel, and Indian artist Amit Kapoor, making a special U.S. appearance to present a workshop in watercolor. This year's event will be held May 20-24, 2024 and will include a day of painting at the famous Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Learn more at PleinAirConvention.com.

Sponsored by the Angel Academy of Art

Founded in 1997, the Angel Academy of Art, Florence, is considered one of the best of the 21st-century academies and ateliers that specialize in the teaching of representational painting. Most of the alumni who have graduated from its full-time three-year programme have gone on to become successful professional artists, and several are now Living Masters in the ARC's Living Masters list. The Angel Academy of Art, Florence, is proud to sponsor the Teens Category in the immensely important International ARC Annual Salon.

The Angel Academy uses sight-size to teach basic rendering skills — drawing and painting from the plaster cast and from still life — but uses the 19th-century academy method of comparative measurement when instructing from the live figure model. This teaches the student to interpret the model for artistic expression, increasing the viewer’s emotional response, while maintaining the illusion of Naturalism. This is done through a thorough understanding of human structure, proportion and gesture; gesture and composition are explained in the lectures and emphasized in the students' third year of study. Anatomy and Morphology, Portraiture, and Pictorial Composition are also included in the syllabus.

The Angel Academy of Art, Florence, is recognized as an ARC Approved Atelier.