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ARC Salon Winners Announced Published on 13 January, 2021

The Art Renewal Center is pleased to present the winners and finalists of the 15th International ARC Salon Competition! This year the ARC received 4,941 entries from 83 countries. For the first time we introduced a semi-finalist round and are presenting both finalists and semi-finalists in these competition results, as we are proud to host the images of all these works for public view. 40% of entries, which translates as 1,977 works, qualified as semi-finalists, which is in and of itself a great accomplishment, as there were a large number of very fine works that did not qualify as semi-finalists. Our ARC Salon Finalists comprise of a select group of the very top-rated entries, 1,155 works in all, or 23% of entries. ARC has acquired 11 new works for the ARC collection, valued at over $140,000. Our highest award, Best in Show, which is a $25,000 prize, has gone to Robert Liberace (USA) for his entry of "Spartan". "Spartan" has also won an ARC Purchase Award with an additional prize amount. 208 awards and honorable mentions have been given out.

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ARC Salon Results January 13, 2021 Published on 8 January, 2021

The winners, finalists and semi-finalists of the 15th ARC Salon will be published on the Art Renewal Center website, www.artrenewal.org, on January 13th. Only five days away! The ARC Salon Competition is the largest competition in the world for representational art including painting, drawing and sculpting.

Nearly 5,000 entries were received from 83 countries. We are thrilled and excited to share with the world the tremendous talent and astounding winners of this year’s competition.

For the first seven days the results are live on the ARC website, January 13 – January 19th, we will be holding an election for our People's Choice Award! Visitors to the ARC website are able to vote for up to 10 of their favorite finalist or winning works. The winner will receive $1,000 cash and a full page in the 15th edition of the ARC Salon Book, International Realism, to be published by ACC Art Books, a division of a global publisher. Visit the People's Choice Award section on the ARC Salon results pages, www.arcsalon.org, and click on the vote button below the works of your choice to cast your votes. Visitors will be prompted to login or create a free account so that we can track votes and prevent users from voting more than once. The winner of this final award will be revealed on January 22nd, 2021.

New ARC Approved Atelier Published on 8 January, 2021

ARC is pleased to welcome the Academy of Realist Art Mexico as a new ARC Approved Atelier!

The Academy of Realist Art Mexico (ARAM) opened its doors in the city of Querétaro in January 2020, with the aim of bringing to Mexico a professional teaching of classical-realist art focused on drawing, painting and sculpture.

ARAM seeks to offer its students the highest level of knowledge by developing a strong technique based on methodologies used in the 19th Century European Academies. ARAM carefully designed a program that teaches students through observation, analysis, and practice to achieve skilled-eyed artists capable of expressing creativity.

To learn more, please click here. 

Svetlana Cameron interview in Colored Pencil Magazine Published on 7 January, 2021

ARC Associate Living Master Svetlana Cameron is featured in the Colored Pencil Magazine, with her drawing ‘Iona and Cocoa’ selected for the cover of January 2021 Issue. Inside there is a 6-page article about Svetlana and her original portrait drawing technique which combines the Renaissance ‘trois crayons’ approach with the use of pastel.

For more info and to purchase please go to www.coloredpencilmag.com.

Mary Pettis Interview with Eric Rhoads Published on 7 January, 2021

ARC Living Master Mary Pettis will be holding a live interview and demonstration on Friday, January 8th with publisher Eric Rhoads. We will be talking about the value of memory training in landscape painting, followed by a brief demonstration.

The interview will begin on Friday, January 8, 2020 at 11am CST / 12pm EST.

To access the video, please visit YouTube @Streamline Art Video  or Facebook @Eric Rhoads, Publisher.