Posts for June, 2025

Aug. 4th – 15th Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm

Charcoal into Grisaille (week 1), Form Painting Within the Figure (week 2)
 
Instructors: Stephen Early and Darren Kingsley (teaching alternate days)
 
Students can attend 1 or both weeks.

In the first week, students will start with fast, gestural figure sketches using a block-in approach to establish structure and anatomy, gradually refining their drawings before introducing paint. The process will emphasize loose, expressive marks and strong foundational elements, transitioning to grisaille block-ins that incorporate both gesture and structure. In the second week, students will focus on translating three-dimensional form onto canvas, prioritizing value control, proportion, anatomy, and paint handling—using either a limited color palette or traditional black and white grisaille to model form effectively.

For more information, please visit the following links: 
Charcoal into Grisaille
Form Painting Within the Figure

Featuring a variety of works spanning the seventeenth to the twentieth century, this installation touches on the theme of city and country. It includes recently acquired Netherlandish landscape drawings as well as British and Swedish landscapes from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Other sections highlight French Neoclassical drawings and works by French women artists of the same period, with a particular focus on the relationships between these artists, their materials and techniques, and their participation in the French Revolution. City and Country also features self-portraits across time, scenes of city dwellers and urban window-shoppers, and a selection of British propaganda posters and trade cards from World War II in commemoration of the eightieth anniversary of the war’s end.

The exhibition runs until September 2, 2025 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave. NY NY 10028.

To learn more, click here.

Please visit the ARC Calendar for more exhibitions.

The American Artists Professional League (AAPL) is pleased to announce the 97th Grand National Exhibition. 

The competition offers over $20,000 in cash awards, plus valuable merchandise & publication awards. The in-person Exhibition and virtual show honors the finest realist painting, drawing and sculpture. The in-person Exhibition will take place at the Salmagundi Club, NYC from Nov. 18 – Dec. 5, 2025.

Entries to the competition will be accepted until the deadline of August 13, 2025.

Apply online via ShowSubmit.com or learn more at AAPLinc.org.

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Due to a large number of requests for more time and individuals needing last minute technical assistance, the deadline for the 18th International ARC Salon Competition will be extended until the end of the day on July 2, 2025. Works submitted after the original deadline will be charged a $5 late fee per entry to acknowledge those artists who were able to finish and submit their works on time. If you have already entered the ARC Salon and would like to update your image files or submit additional works, you are welcome to do so up until the new deadline. There is no additional charge for updating an image for an entry that was submitted prior to the original June 12 deadline. We are very excited to see a lot of amazing new works being submitted to the competition.

To view the prospectus and to enter visit the ARC Salon entry pages.   

On Saturday, June 14, 2025, the state-recognized Academy of Fine Art Germany will open its doors in Bad Homburg. Interested parties will gain exclusive insights into an extraordinary training program that combines classic painting and sculpture techniques with contemporary career preparation.

Students, faculty, and the whole administration team is looking forward to welcoming you, chat and to answer any the questions you might have.

The Academy of Fine Art Germany Im Atzelnest 3, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany.

To learn more, visit  https://academy-of-fine-art.com/open-day-2025/.

For more events and exhibitions, visit the ARC Calendar.

Offering over $130,000 in cash awards and career changing opportunities through partnerships with prestigious magazines, museums, galleries and more.  Don’t miss your chance to enter the 18th International ARC Salon Competition!

Categories include: Figurative, Portraiture, Imaginative Realism, Drawing, Landscape, Still Life, Plein Air Painting, Fully From Life, Sculpture, Animals, and a special category for teens.

All entries must be submitted by June 12, 2025 11:59 PM (Pacific Standard Time). 

Click here to enter. 

Since its 1909 inauguration, the California Art Club has been dedicated to promoting and supporting contemporary-traditional fine art by championing paintings and sculptures featuring representational practices. The Gold Medal Exhibition showcase will spotlight more than 160 never-before-exhibited paintings and sculptures, selected by an esteemed panel of art scholars and artists, who reviewed more than 500 submissions from nationally renowned representational artists as well as rising stars.

During the run of the exhibition, educational programs will be presented to foster a greater understanding for traditional art. These activities will include demonstrations on classical art skills and the popular “Meet the Artists” series, in which Gold Medal artists will be in the exhibition galleries every Saturday to talk about their creative processes and answer questions about the works on view.

All artworks are available for acquisition and a portion of the proceeds benefit the California Art Club’s educational programming. For more information about the Gold Medal Exhibition, the featured artwork and related programs, visit californiaartclub.org/goldmedal.

The exhibition takes place at VEFA Gallery, 21825 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA, 90503 from June 11- August 9, 2025.

To learn more, click here.

Visit the ARC Calendar for more information.

The International Guild of Realism’s 19th Annual Juried Exhibition will be held at the Sugarman-Peterson Gallery in historic Santa Fe, New Mexico from June 6-30, 2025. The final jury has 99 realism paintings from 97 IGOR members. 

The Sugarman-Peterson Gallery is in the heart of the Santa Fe Art District, a Top 3 Art Market!  The gallery is centrally located among many quality art galleries, luxury shops and fine dining, attracting plenty of affluent visitors during the peak summer season.  

The gallery has posted the exhibition on their website so please enjoy viewing the entire show online showcasing the beautiful artwork of IGOR members from over 10 countries! All sale inquires should go directly to the gallery.

To learn more, please click here.  

For more events, please visit the ARC Calendar.

The Art Renewal Center’s International ARC Salon® is the largest Realist Art competition in the world. With over $130,000 in cash awards and international recognition through the ARC website which receives over 2,000,000 visitors annually, the ARC Salon also offers career changing opportunities through partnerships with prestigious magazines, museums, galleries and more. Don’t miss your chance to compete! Categories include: Figurative, Portraiture, Imaginative Realism, Drawing, Landscape, Still Life, Plein Air Painting, Fully From Life, Sculpture, Animals, and a special category for teens.

Entries to the 18th International ARC Salon® will be accepted from March 1 – June 12, 2025. To learn more click here.

Bucks County Classical Arts Center proudly announces its 2025 Student Work Show June 4th-June 14th. Artwork was created during the school year from September 2024-May 2025 and includes pencil drawings, charcoal drawings, and oil paintings in a classical realist tradition. Subjects include still life, portrait, and figurative artwork.

Opening reception is Saturday June 7th 11am-2pm. There will be a lecture and gallery talk Saturday June 14th, 11am-noon.

The exhibition is located at Bucks County Classical Arts Center, room 205 of the school building of St. Martin of Tours Church in New Hope.

Click here to learn more.  

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In 2020, a massive explosion in the port of Beirut devastated the city. Among the wreckage was a previously unknown painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, the most celebrated woman painter of 17th-century Italy. Depicting a scene from the Greek myth of Hercules, the severely damaged painting came to Getty for in-depth conservation treatment. In an installation focused on its repair, the restored painting is accompanied by four of Gentileschi’s other paintings, highlighting her special focus on donne forti (strong women) from the classical and biblical traditions.

The exhibition runs from June 10 – September 14, 2025 at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA 90049.

To learn more, click here. 

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