Posts for January, 2020

Teaching Artists Exhibition

ARC Living Artist Robert Dale Williams will have two paintings, "Maternity" and "Recordare" in the "Teaching Artists" exhibition at the York Art Association, 220 S Marshall St, York, Pennsylvania 17402. The exhibition runs from January 12 - February 9, 2020.

For more information, please click here.

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

In this five-day workshop at the ARC Approved Edinburgh Atelier of Fine Art, artists will learn to create alla prima portraits that evince the beauty and humanity of the model with freshness, sensitivity and lively detail. Using a lucid step-by-step approach, participants will paint five portrait sketches of five different live models. Patrick will guide artists with daily demonstrations and in-depth personal critiques through each stage of the process – from creating a strong likeness with accurate drawing, to color mixing, modeling form and finishing details. Cranial anatomy, materials, paint handling, and the physics of light will also be discussed throughout each session. While this workshop is mainly geared towards painters with some previous experience in oils, artists who prefer to create portrait drawings in graphite or charcoal are also encouraged to participate. Each day brings a new portrait model. Workshop instruction combines guided group demonstrations with personalized one-on-one critiques.

Participants will learn how to create convincing, sensitive portraits through a coherent, rigorous development of their technical skills in drawing and painting.

Spaces are limited so book early.

For more information, click here. 

Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club 123rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition is being held at the National Arts Club, 15 Grammercy Park South, New York, NY, 10003 from January 7 - 31, 2020.

The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, founded in 1896, is a national organization to promote and advance the work of professional women artists. An awards dinner will be held on Friday January 31st from 6-9pm.

ARC Living Artist Gayle Madeira will be among the exhibiting artists.

For more information, please visit https://www.clwac.org/.

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

Due to the high volume of visitors attending the show at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), the ARC Salon Exhibition has been extended from the original Feb 2nd ending date! The show will now remain on view through February 16th, and will continue to hang alongside the MEAM's representational painting and sculpture competition, Figurativas. 

For more information visit the 14th ARC Salon Exhibition Page.

Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers has recently republished a panel discussion titled: On the Cutting Edge of Post Modern Art which took place in November, 1989. It is the first panel discussion which was held by The American Society of Classical Realism and includes; Gary Christensen, Lisa Bormann, Richard Lack, Dr. Barbara Long and Stephen Gjertson. The subject of the discussion centres on discerning Classical Realism as an art form from other forms of realism which prevailed in the Post Modern era.

To watch the panel discussion, please visit http://skillbasedart.weebly.com/video2.html

The American Society of Marine Artists is presenting their 3rd National Marine Art Conference from March 4- 8, 2020 in Williamsburg and Jamestown, Virginia.

A highlight of the Conference will be the opening reception for ASMA’s 18th National Exhibition at Jamestown Settlement Museum. This is the first of five museums the exhibition will visit over 18 months.

To learn more about the conference, please visit https://americansocietyofmarineartists.com/3rd-National-Marine-Art-Conference.

The Princeton Academy of Art is offering a course that will introduce students to the Academic method of conceptualizing and sculpting the human figure, which relies heavily on composition, construction, and the anatomical underpinnings of idealized classicist form from antiquity. This approach is part of a living tradition that has passed down through an unbroken chain of generations since the Russian Academy's inception over 250 years ago.

Working from models and the school's extensive cast collection, students will be guided to see the form through clear demarcation of planes that integrate the weight and proportion of casts as well as the gesture and likeness of the model. They are pushed past simple silhouettes to think three dimensionally to feel how the various anatomical planes flow together and bind a complex set of distinct anatomical structures into the totality that is sculpture.

Classes run from February 7 - June 26, 2020 on Fridays from 10:30 am - 4:00 pm.

For more information, please visit https://www.princetonacademyofart.com/courses/.

Living Master Golucho is teaching at MEAM, Barcelona, from April 6th to 10th.  

As a member of ARC community, enjoy a 20% discount for Instinct & Intuition, a five-day Painting Workshops held by one of the main representatives of the New Realism, known for exploring and portraying the observed subjects through experimentation, sometimes partially destructive, in the physical media and pictorial design, in order to generate depictions of reality containing psychological meaning. 

Use the discount code GOLUCHO2020_ARC when you checkout on TIAC Academy website: https://tiacacademy.com/master-level-workshops/golucho-barcelona-2020.  Discount valid until February 15th. 
 
For further information please check the workshop details on the link above or write to TIAC Academy to masterworkshops@tiacg.com.

To know more about Golucho go to www.golucho.com.

Don't miss this opportunity to further develop your artistic practice with a living master! 

Patreon is a subscription website, and the Florence Academy is excited to use this platform for educating and inspiring artists about the craft of painting and sculpture. "The Florence Academy of Art Collective" is a new source for thoughtful, artistic and educational videos, filmed inside the school or artist's studio, that feature FAA Founder, Daniel Graves, and Florence Academy Faculty and Alumni, Art History Lectures from the Florence campus, and behind the scenes photography. These videos will bring to you the Florence Academy's community and take a deep dive into the philosophies and practices of its professional artists. At the same time, The FAA Collective on Patreon provides a new way to help fund scholarships, artist residencies, and more. There are five tiers, each representing a tax-deductible monthly subscription, with unique gifts tied to each.

For more details, trailers or to join The FAA Collective, visit https://www.patreon.com/thefaacollective.

The Festival Forma Vera will be bringing together the great traditions of the Atelier and Christian, classical education.

Participants will engage with the history and philosophy of atelier training relating to and supporting holistic, classical education. Participants will receive classical drawing training in a workshop with Juliette Aristides. Participants will learn how to implement or advance an atelier-style visual art program within their own school or homeschool.

On Friday, March 13th at 6:30 p.m. there will be a dinner, live music, and student art display. ARC Living Master Juliette Aristides will be the keynote speaker.

Beginning Saturday, March 14th at 9:00 a.m., there will be a drawing workshop with Juliette Aristides and a signed copy of her book "Beginning Drawing Atelier" is included with registration.

After the Fellowship lunch at 12:30, there will be a presentation on atelier training in the context of Christian, classical education by SCA Dean of Visual Arts Holly Davis and SCA Founder and Director Sandra Lawson.

The closing ceremony and reception takes place at 3:30.

This event is for ages 12 and up.

For more information please contact atelier@sayersclassicalacademy.org or to register visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sca-festival-forma-vera-fine-art-event-tickets-80341677119.

ARC Approved MIFA is hosting a five day portrait painting workshop with Jesus E Villarreal which explores techniques and methods used during the 19th century academies.

Concentrating for the whole course on one pose, students will choose to either draw the live model in charcoal or paint in oils. Students will be guided in a step by step process through each stage of the painting or drawing.

To learn more about this workshop, please visit https://mifamiami.com/upcoming-workshops.

LARA, an ARC Approved Atelier, is holding a Scholarship Competition which will offer two young people the chance to learn a new skill, discover the world of atelier training, and boost their art portfolios.

LARA will host one first prize winner for the full two weeks of Easter School/Drawing and Painting Bootcamp. In addition, one runner up will be hosted for one week of the Easter School.

For full details about the scholarship, please visit https://www.drawpaintsculpt.com/easter-scholarship-competition/.

This 5 day workshop with artist Brett F Harvey is ideal for any skill level and focuses on foundational ideas about sculpting the human figure. Students will work from live models to create a series of studies in water based clay that explore architectural concepts about anatomy.

Materials are included in the workshop costs.

The workshop runs from January 27 -30, 2020 at MIFA, 5900 NW 74th Ave, Miami, FL 33166.

For more information click here. 

The California Art Club spotlights quintessential images of the distinct land and lifestyle of California with the exhibition The Golden State, on view from January 14 to May 17 at its gallery at the historical landmark The Old Mill, 1120 Old Mill Rd, San Marino, CA 91108.

A reception with the exhibiting artists will be held on Thursday, January 16, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

During the exhibition, the California Art Club will present as part of its ongoing educational programming a Paint/Sculpt-Out in the garden of The Old Mill on Saturday, January 25, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be no charge to watch the artists at work during this family-friendly event, and children may create their own paintings. Attendees may also peruse the offerings at the Artist Flea Market that will also be taking place, at which Club artists will sell surplus items from their studios, ranging from new and slightly used art materials to frames, easels, art books and more.

To learn more, click here. 

For more events, visit the ARC Calendar.

Neill Slaughter will be presenting a lecture at the Salmagundi Club on John Singer Sargent, Joaquín Sorolla, and Anders Zorn.

These artists became internationally renowned during their lifetimes as portrait painters. Ironically, all three eventually grew weary of the demands of commissioned portraiture, and of having to deal with pompous and prickly personalities, preferring instead to paint landscapes
or seascapes often populated with peasants, family, and friends. All three of these internationally famous artists fell into obscurity after their deaths with a revival of interest in their work occurring only in the last three decades.

The lecture takes places on Wednesday, January 8, 2020 at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 and admission is $10.

For more information, please visit www.salmagundi.org.

The ARC Approved TIAC Academy is organizing a Painting Master Workshop with Golucho, one of the main representatives of New Realism. The workshop will take place at the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) Barra de Ferro 5, in Barcelona, Spain, from April 6th to April 10th, 2020.

TIAC Academy is offering a special Early Bird discount of 20% off the original price valid up until January 15th. In order to register with the discount visit
https://tiacacademy.com/master-level-workshops/golucho-barcelona-2020.

For further information please check the workshop details on the link above or write to TIAC Academy masterworkshops@tiacg.com writing "Golucho Master Workshop" in the subject of your email.

"I have worked with Mandy Theis for the last five years in the development and founding of the Da Vinci Initiative which focuses on training K – 12 art teachers in public and private schools in the atelier methods. The 3,000 plus art teachers we have worked with so far are enthusiastic about bringing traditional skills in the visual arts into their classrooms. Each teacher will touch thousands of children’s lives throughout their teaching career so we are very optimistic that the future generation will have the deep respect of traditional methods that we here hold so dear. The Da Vinci Initiative program has been thriving so well that starting January 1, 2020 it will be standing as an independent organization separately from myself and ARC’s direct involvement. I am proud to call Mandy a friend and ally and am honored to have had the opportunity to help found a budding atelier movement within the art teacher community. We at ARC wish Mandy well as she continues the DVI mission. ARC will be continuing the teens category in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition as there are many talented students between the ages of 13 – 19 studying traditional training methods and techniques. " - Kara Lysandra Ross