April DVI Workshop – Jersey City, NJ
Drawing Techniques for Educators

April 11 – 12, 2015
9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Florence Academy NYC Jersey City
Third Floor of the MANA Center
888 Newark Ave.
Jersey City, NJ 07306
With Jordan Sokol & Mandy Hallenius

For more information or to register, click here.
In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the skill-based model for teaching drawing in K-12 classrooms. Participants will explore a variety of methods for training young artists that enhance visual literacy through drawing. Each drawing concept will be introduced and presented with lesson plans for use in home classrooms. A certificate of completion will be provided for those wishing to apply this workshop towards their continuing education requirements.

For more information or to register, click here.

Posted March 9th, 2015

Florence Academy Guest Artist Series
As part of the Guest Artist series, the Spanish contemporary figurative painter, Golucho, will conduct a lecture about his work, and demonstration of techniques to students at The Florence Academy of Art – Florence, Italy.

Galucho began teaching himself to paint at the age of 12 in Madrid, and says that the part of an artist that drives him or her to paint can come from many places, a moment long forgotten or a memory from childhood. His paintings have been called emotional, provocative and masterfully crafted. The academy looks forward to getting to know this artist in person, and to watch him at work.

For more information on The Florence Academy of Art, please visit www.florenceacademyofart.com

Posted March 6th, 2015

Steven Hanks & Angela De la Vega Exhibition
ARC Living Masters™ Steven Hanks and Angela De la Vega are holding a dual exhibition at the S.R. Brennan Galleries 73-111 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 92260.

There will be a champagne reception on Friday March 6, 2015 from 4pm to 8pm.

The exhibition runs until March 16, 2015.

To learn more about this and other events, please click here.
Summer by Angela De la Vega

Posted March 6th, 2015

ARCLM™ Liverpool Workshops
Michael John Angel, co-founder and studio director of the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy and Juliette Aristides, founder and director of the Aristides Atelier in Seattle, Washington, will be giving figure-drawing and painting workshops.

The workshops are being held at the Hope University in Liverpool, UK. Juliette Aristides’ course runs from July 27 – 31, 2015 and Michael John Angel’s from August 3 – 14, 2015.

Liverpool also has two of the greatest 19th-century galleries in Britain: the Lady Lever Art Gallery and the Walker Art Gallery.

For further information, please visit www.angel-studios.co.uk.

Posted March 4th, 2015

New ARC Living Artist™
ARC is pleased to welcome Jennie Smallenbroek as an ARC Living Artist™.

Jennie Smallenbroek is a fulltime professional artist residing in her native country, the Netherlands, but travels extensively to paint and further her education as an artist. She paints a wide range of subject matter including figurative, still life and religious themes.

To view Jennie Smallenbroek’s gallery on ARC, please click here.
Portrait of a Lady by Jennie Smallenbroek

Posted March 3rd, 2015

ARCALM™ Sergio Roffo Exhibition

Sunrise on Orr’s Island, Brunswick, ME
by Sergio Roffo		 ARCALM™ Sergio Roffo will be exhibiting in a two person show titled Coastal Light. The show runs from March 6 – 31, 2015 at the Principle Gallery, 125 Meeting Street Charleston, SC 29401.

The opening reception is Friday, March 6th, 2015 from 5 pm to 8 pm.

For more information, please click here.

Posted March 2nd, 2015

Masterworks From the Corcoran
Running until May 3, 2015, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC will display a selection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s renowned collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and photographs. A number of celebrated works by great American artists such as Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Samuel F. B. Morse, and Hiram Powers will be exhibited.

To learn more about this and other exhibitions, please click here.

Posted February 27th, 2015

IGOR Competition

Girl with Pearl Earrings by Vala Ola		 The International Guild of Realism (IGOR), an ARC Allied Organization, is accepting entries from its members for its Masterworks Museum Exhibition, the tour of which is being promoted by David J. Wagner, L.L.C. The exhibition is scheduled from May 19 – July 26, 2015 at the prestigious R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, Louisiana. This will be an IGOR members-only exhibition with an emphasis on museum-quality artwork.

Exhibition Premiere: May 19 – July 26, 2015 at the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, LA

For more information, please click here.

Posted February 26th, 2015

New ARC Living Artist™
ARC is pleased to welcome John Joseph Hunn as an ARC Living Artist™.

John Joseph Hunn is a Midwest artist predominately working with the human figure. Graduate of Fontbonne University in 2000, he lives and works in Saint Louis MO.

To view his gallery on ARC, please click here.


Delivery by John Joseph Hunn

Posted February 25th, 2015

Rediscovering George Elgar Hicks
Kara Lysandra Ross, ARC Chief Operating Officer, has written “Rediscovering Victorian Painter George Elgar Hicks”, a new article published in The Epoch Times.

A Cloud With a Silver Lining
by George Elgar Hicks		 “In the 1870s with the decline of interest in bustling contemporary genre paintings illustrating scenes of Victorian life, Hicks moved on to portraiture commissions and a different type of genre painting, many of which are beautifully esthetic psychological studies of individuals or small groups. Although he has been most noted for his historic crowd scenes, it is most likely his later scenes of beauty and childhood that will become increasingly appreciated, as these are the ones that more closely resemble the works of his most sought after contemporaries.”

To read the full article, please click here.

Posted February 24th, 2015

Leonardo da Vinci and the Idea of Beauty
Organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art, 603 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, VA 23185 this unprecedented selection of more than twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo from Italian museums is the first exhibition to explore Leonardo’s philosophy of beauty as contrasted with his rival Michelangelo. Also featured will be Leonardo’s renowned Codex on the Flight of Birds, containing a hidden self-portrait at age fifty-three, which has never previously been exhibited.
The exhibit runs from February 21 – April 5, 2015.

To see more about this and other exhibits, please click here.

Posted February 23rd, 2015

Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence
February 1, 2015 – May 3, 2015

National Gallery of Art – 6th St. and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC

The first major retrospective exhibition ever presented on the imaginative Italian Renaissance master Piero di Cosimo’s paintings will premiere at the Gallery. 40 of the artist’s most compelling paintings will be on view, including beguiling mythologies and religious works (some on loan from churches in Italy), as well as one of his greatest works, the Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth of Hungary, Catherine of Alexandria, Peter, and John the Evangelist with Angels from the Museo degli Innocenti, Florence.

For more information, please click here.

Posted February 20th, 2015

Sculpture in the Age of Donatello
Twenty-three masterpieces of early Florentine Renaissance sculpture, most never seen outside Italy, will be exhibited at the Museum of Biblical Art. MOBIA will be the sole world-wide venue for this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition. Works by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Nanni di Banco, Luca della Robbia and others will be on display.

The show opens Friday and runs through June 14, 2015 at MOBIA – 1865 Broadway at 61st Street, New York, NY 10023.

For more information about this exhibit, please click here.

Posted February 19th, 2015

Six Philadelphia Artists Show

Three instructors from Studio Incamminati will be exhibiting work in this show at the Haynes Galleries – 1600 Division Street, Suite 140, Nashville, Tennessee 37203.

The exhibition runs until February 28th and is free and open to the public.

For more information, please click here.

Posted February 18th, 2015

New Letter to ARC
“I’ve studied Art History at university and I’ve always felt fascinated by Humanist or Traditional Art. For this reason I was very surprised when, in 19th Century Art classes, my teacher never said a word about geniuses like Bouguereau or Gérôme. Well, the only thing he said once was that they were labeled as “Pompier” and that they didn’t add anything important nor interesting to Western Art History…”

To read the whole letter, please click here.

To view the ARChives, please click here.

Posted February 17th, 2015

The Florence Academy of Art US Show
The Florence Academy of Art US opens this month and will be showing a two-person exhibition of still life, figurative, and cityscape paintings by FAA graduates, Carolyn Pyfrom and Peter van Dyck. The exhibition will remain on view through March 28 at the academy’s new school located at Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ. Opening hours 9:00 am – 4:00 pm or by appointment.

For more information, please contact Alexa Marino, tel. Tel: 201 685 7080, or visit the FAA US Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/faausbranch?fref=photo.


Carolyn Pyfrom, Self-Portrait at 43
24″ x 16″, Oil on linen, 2014

Posted February 16th, 2015

James Gurney Exhibit

Song in the Garden by James Gurney

ARC Living Master™ James Gurney will be exhibiting original oil paintings from Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time, Dinotopia: The World Beneath, and Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. The fantastical art in the Dinotopia series was inspired by Gurney’s childhood fascination with archaeology, dinosaurs, lost civilizations, and art. He went on to work with scientists and historians at National Geographic magazine to create images of ancient worlds; a project that inspired the conceptual framework for Dinotopia.
The exhibit will run from February 14 – May 25, 2015 at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center – 39 Scofieldtown Road, Stamford, CT 06903.

For more information, please click here to visit our events page.

Posted February 13th, 2015

New ARC Approved Atelier™
Located in Miami, Florida, Chiaroscuro Studio of Art offers top level instruction in realistic painting and drawing. Their curriculum is based on the teaching method used by the famous classical-realist 19th century academies. Chiaroscuro believes in the solid artistic basis this kind of training gives to the students, allowing them to achieve high standards of craftsmanship and technical skills. Their teaching methods and techniques provide the tools that students can use to create their own contemporary work and develop a personal artistic language.

To learn more about Chiaroscuro Studio of Art, please click here.
Ipazia – Studying Perfection
by Instructor Milixa Morón

Posted February 12th, 2015

The Language of Art: New Approaches for Teaching Visual Literacy

The Polisher by Anthony Waichulis		 February 21-22, 2015, 9:30am-3pm at the
Ani Art Academy Waichulis
1100 Pittston Blvd. Bear Creek Twp., PA 18702
Tel: 570-822-4111

This two-day workshop, presented in partnership with The Da Vinci Initiative, will explore several aspects of visual perception and language development to uncover an incredibly efficient method for introducing meaningful visual literacy development into the classroom.
This comprehensive clinic also introduces a fun and challenging hands-on component with a new series of K-12 visual arts exercises adapted from Anthony Waichulis’ celebrated curriculum: The Language of Drawing and The Language of Painting developed for the International Ani Art Academies.

For more information and to register, please click here.

Posted February 11th, 2015

Bouguereau’s ‘Fancies’: Allegorical and Mythological Works by the French Master
The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, FL is currently exhibiting nineteen mythological and allegorical paintings and drawings by William Bouguereau. The works span the artist’s entire career, and the exhibit will be supplemented by period reproductions of his works in print, porcelain, marble, and bronze.

The exhibit ends April 19, 2015.

For more information about this and other events, please click here.

To read an article on the exhibition by Kara Lysandra Ross, click here.

Posted February 10th, 2015

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