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22 October, 2019

Daniela Astone, Director of the Intermediate Program at the ARC Approved Florence Academy of Art, has organized an important exhibition of living figurative artists. Together with the curator, Carlo ...

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ARC Approved™Atelier Kewaunee Academy presents KAFA Artistic Director Craig Blietz on 4 consecutive Saturdays:“Portrait Painting” August 8, 15, 22, 29-9am-4pmFor workshop information and regist ...

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22 September, 2022

This exhibition, conceived in collaboration with the Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz” in Winterthur (Switzerland), is the first to explore the artistic beginnings of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1 ...

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The exhibition "Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment", features approximately 80 works of art plus photographs and natural history specimens from the artists ...

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30 November, 2022

The ARC Approved® Miami International Fine Arts (MIFA) is holding an exhibition including works by instructors and founders of the school and gallery. "Collectively, the artists participating in ...

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Between the late 16th century and the early 18th century, artists working in the Netherlands—then known as the Dutch Republic—produced an extraordinary number of landscape drawings. Many of these work ...

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ARC Associate Living Master Jane Jones works within the context of the seventeenth century Dutch school of painting, inspired by artists such as Maria van Oosterwyck (1630 – 1693), Maria Sibylla ...

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Four museum exhibitions will be closing on May 19th, 2013. The first is The Panoramic River: the Hudson and the Thames at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY which focuses on British late 18th cent ...

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DaVinci & Michelangelo: The Titans Experience announces its New York City debut at the Triad Theater. Mark Rodgers, Curator of the DaVinci Machines and Michelangelo Exhibitions for North America, ...

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"It's no secret that art instruction in public schools is hurting-not only for funding, but for applicable skills.The problem often starts at the top. Students may have the desire to learn to draw, ...

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The Da Vinci Initiative is celebrating the opening of their new studio space. The event will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 6 PM – 8 PM at 930 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07306-6301. For mo ...

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Join the Da Vinci Initiative's first ever open house in their new teaching studio! Gather with artists, educators, and supporters in celebrating the formation of  The Da Vinci Initiative Atelie ...

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A painting by Leonardo da Vinci that was lost for centuries has been authenticated by distinguished scholars and conservators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ...

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The Dacia Gallery is holding a 10 year anniversary exhibition. This exhibition embodies an eclectic mix of contemporary artists that focus on representational art through painting and drawing. Among ...

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Encountering the Orient: Masterworks from the Dahesh Museum of Art will run from March 27 to April 15, 2013. This exhibition re-examines 19th-century European Orientalism to give a fuller understandi ...

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The Dahesh Museum purchased Frederick Lord Leighton's Star of Bethlehem on Friday, November 8, 2013, at the Sotheby's auction of 19th-Century European art. The Museum owns three other paintings by t ...

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The Art Renewal Center® has some extremely sad news to report. Damien Bartoli, the Bouguereau biographer, who worked with ARC Chairman, Fred Ross M.A. and Dr. Vern Swanson to produce the first c ...

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Damien Bartoli (1947 – 2009)The Art Renewal Center® has some extremely sad news to report. Damien Bartoli, the Bouguereau biographer, who worked with ARC Chairman, Fred Ross M.A. and Dr. Ve ...

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Dan Thompson, color theorist, will give a live portrait demonstration on American Artist On-Line Magazine, Wednesday, June 13 at 3pm PST/ 12pm ESTPlease register prior to the chat at www.myamericanart ...

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Dan Thompson, artist, teacher and co-founder of Grand Central Academy of Art has been approved as an ARC Master.Look for Dan's ARC Masters Gallery in the upcoming weeks.Dan will be teaching a 10-day w ...

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by Dan ThompsonARC Approved™ Southern Atelier in Sarasota, Florida, presents ARC Living Master™ Dan ThompsonJanuary 14-17, 2011 - 9:30-4PMThis workshop is designed for drawing or painting ...

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ARC Living Master Dan Thompson has recently been interviewed by the Portrait Society of America, New Jersey Chapter. He discusses his experiences as a painter and instructor, including meeting Nelso ...

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Dana Levin, Director of the ARC Approved Atelier: The New School of Classical Realism, has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™Visit the Dana Levin GalleryHydrangea and Winterberriesby Dana Le ...

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20 February, 2008

ARC Living Master, Daniel E. Green will be teaching at the Bravura Academy in southern Spain Nov 9-15, 2008 Click here for more info.Mr. Green is the first place winner in the Landscape category of t ...

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ARC Living Master tm Daniel Gerhartz is holding an exhibition of thirty-one paintings. It is the artist's first major retrospective. It includes many new, never before seen works. "H ...

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Daniel Graves and the Florence Academy of Art, an ARC Approved™ Atelier, has received the Excellence in Art Education Award 2008 from the Portrait Society of America. The Excellence in Art Educatio ...

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Daniel Graves, founder and director of the Florence Academy of Art will have his first one-man exhibition at Eleanor Ettinger Gallery March 8, 2007 - April 1, 2007. ...

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14 December, 2020

Emilio Longo, founder and director of Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers has recently interviewed ARC Living Master and director of the Florence Academy of A ...

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ARC Allied Organization™, Suggested Donation, conducted an interview with ARC Living Master™ and head of the ARC Approved™ Florence Academy of Art, Daniel Graves. To listen to the podcast, please cli ...

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Portrait of Jessie by Daniel GreeneCongratulations to ARC Living Masters™ Daniel Greene and Nelson Shanks for having their work featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal. The article titl ...

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GAMESA showing of works by ARC Master Daniel GreeneGallery Henoch555 West 25th StreetNYC, NY 10001917-305-0003October 11- November 3, 2007 ...

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ARC Living Master™ Daniel Greene will be having solo exhibition of new paintings entitled “At the Auction” from April 2 - 25, 2015. The paintings depict the moments of drama that occur in the high- ...

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ARC Living Master™ Daniel Greene will discuss his creative journey in art in addition to his evolution over a career that spans 65 years. Daniel Greene is one of America’s leading figure, portra ...

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30 September, 2016

Congratulations to ARC Living Master™ Daniel Greene for winning the Founder's Award in the 2016 Pastel Society of America's competition for his painting "Wool Spindles, Silk and Moire". This is the ...

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Organized by The Butler Institute of American Art, this retrospective showcases the realist art of ARC Living Master™ Daniel Greene. It will include a range of work from paintings created in the 197 ...

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Dear Mr. Ross,My husband hasn't start complaining yet... But if he does, you will be guilty as charged! For since I discovered your wesite, less than a week ago, I've been spending hours and hou ...

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14 August, 2024

In the 1700 and 1800's, artists explored the idea of the Sublime, the flip side of the Age of Enlightenment, in which Romantics opened themselves to the sensation of forces beyond human comprehen ...

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ARC Living Master™ David Bowers has recently had an article published in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine."I am often inspired by an image that I see and my painting materializes from that image. It will ...

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18 November, 2014

Congratulations to ARC Living Master™ David Bowers for winning Best in Show for his painting, “After the Bath” at the 9th Annual International Guild of Realism (IGOR) exhibition.The IGOR exhib ...

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David Bowers is now an ARC Living Master™. ...Bowers' paintings incorporate modern themes and ideas. There is always a message in his work. For him the idea is the most challenging and rewarding ...

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Finding the Gold by David BowersARC Living Master™ David Bowers is being featured in a solo show that opens April 11, 2014Palm Avenue Fine Art - 10 South Palm Avenue, Sarasota, Florida 34236To view ...

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The Fat of the Land, by David Cheifetz, which won an honorable mention in the landscape category in the 2014/2015 ARC Salon Competition has now sold. The painting is a part of the first live exhibiti ...

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David Jermann has been approved as an ARC Living Artist™.Visit the David Jermann GalleryCompote with Fruitby David Jermann ...

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3 February, 2025

This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, James McNeill Whistler, ...

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14 December, 2022

ARC Living Master℠ Joke Frima will be among the artists exhibiting in "De Figuratieven 2022". The exhibit shows works that all have a basis in realism, but are executed in various styles, from classic ...

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28 February, 2017

ARC Living Artist™ Debra Keirce is exhibiting her painting "Victory" in the show "Map Your World". The exhibition takes place on February 17 - March 12, 2017 at the Franklin Park Arts Center - 36441 B ...

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ARC Living Artist™ Debra Keirce's painting "Red  White and Blue" has recently been acquired by the Customs House Museum located on 200 S 2nd St, Clarksville, TN 37040. The wor ...

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2 August, 2022

ARC Associate Living Master℠ Debra Keirce won Best in Show for her painting "Nurdles and Ghost Nets and Flotsam" (Clean Up in Hawaii) in the U.S. Coast Guard Art Program. Thirty-eight works by 27 arti ...

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First Place WinnerSulphur Springs Minature ShowGuinness by Debra KeirceARC Living Artist™ Debra Keirce has recently been accepted as a member of the prestigious Copley Society of Art, which is the old ...

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This exhibition is the first to explore Impressionist artist Edgar Degas’s representations of Parisian laundresses. The industry fascinated Degas throughout his long career and he created about 30 dep ...

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The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. is offering a virtual tour of the exhibition "Degas at the Opera". It is the first show dedicated to Edgar Degas’s fascination with the Pa ...

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18 April, 2022

Visit Delacroix’s last apartment and studio for a discovery of the artist's ties to nature. Within the intimate setting of the museum and garden, the exhibition features rare landscapes painted by Del ...

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"WILMINGTON, Del. --The Delaware Art Museum lost its accreditation and its ability to receive loaned works from many museums Wednesday, one day after the museum sold one of its most famous Pre-Rapha ...

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In the 15th century, Luca della Robbia invented a glazing technique for sculpture characterized by brilliant opaque whites and deep cerulean blues. The exhibition features about 50 objects, some never ...

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19 March, 2021

In this workshop at ARC Approved MIFA, the artist Brett Harvey - @brett_f_harvey will explain how to design dynamic and expressive portraits using theories of structural anatomy. Over the course of ...

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Detroit Realists of Art has been hard at work in the studio for the last year.  Students have been tackling drawings with sharp charcoal and a determination to get better, while the instructors h ...

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This selection of paintings and prints from a major private Charleston collection of Northern Renaissance art introduces a world of intensely, and sometimes disturbingly, vivid imagery. Created in t ...

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29 August, 2018

Renowned as a giant of French Romantic painting, Eugène Delacroix was equally a dedicated and an innovative draftsman. Through a selection of more than one hundred works on paper—from finished water ...

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Diana Scultori (1547–1612), also known as Diana Mantuana, was the first documented woman in Europe to have a professional career as a printmaker. Born in the Italian city of Mantua, Diana came from a ...

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"Although Social Realist painters emerged in countries throughout America and Europe at the time, each with their own distinguishing factors, in England, Frank Holl was very prominent for this type ...

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ARC Living Master™ John Seibels Walker will be exhibiting his work at the annual spring open house at Dilworth Artisan Station 118 E. Kingstom Ave, Southend, Charlotte NC.      ...

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Is open now through February 9, 2014 at The Arkell Museum - 2 Erie Boulevard, Canajoharie, New York 13317 Dinosaur Parade by James Gurney"Inspired by a deep and abiding interest in archaeology, lo ...

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This show, which was organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, will run from Feb. 20 through Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2013 at the New Hampshire Institute of the Arts . This exh ...

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Fall Intake - September 30, 2024 – June 6, 2025 The ARC Approved Florence Classical Arts Academy offers a One-Year Course, which can be extended then into the full Three-Year Course https://www.artac. ...

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Three-Year Diploma Program Painting and Drawing ​FALL INTAKE - September 29, 2025 - June 5, 2026 HYBRID PROGRAM** - January 5 – July 31, 2026 WINTER INTENSIVE INTAKE* - February 2, 2026  - July 3 ...

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This exhibition examines the varying landscape of the Northeast over the last hundred or so years. Drawn largely from the Lyman Allyn’s permanent collection, this exhibition includes watercolors of ...

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   A GoodArt post by Fred Ross:I do not dismiss Impressionism.Impressionism is a valid technique for making works of art. But it is only one of a number of possible techniques.Depending ...

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Distilled Beauty is a group exhibition exploring the revival of realism by American and international artists, selected from 14th International Art Renewal Center Salon finalists. There will also b ...

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A group exhibition being held at American Legacy Fine Arts exploring the revival of Realism by American and international artists, selected from the Art Renewal Center 14th Salon fina ...

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A group exhibition being held at American Legacy Fine Arts exploring the revival of Realism by American and international artists, selected from the Art Renewal Center 14th Salon finali ...

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On April 1st and 2nd, The Da Vinci Initiative (DVI) hosted its first district wide workshop at the Florence Academy of Art, Jersey City. DVI President, Mandy Hallenius, worked with Florence Academy In ...

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9 June, 2016

Motor Scooter by Jeffrey LarsonARC Living Master™ Jeffrey Larson is holding an exhibition featuring oil paintings of exquisitely rendered domestic views, figures, and objects. This is the firs ...

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The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Musei del Bargello will be hosting "Donatello, The Renaissance". This historic, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition sets out to reconstruct the outstanding career of o ...

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The first major UK exhibition to explore the exceptional talents of the Renaissance master Donatello, arguably the greatest sculptor of all time. Experience a fresh vision of the artist and his influe ...

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ARC Living MasterTM Donato Giancola will be holding an open studio on Saturday, May 19, 2018 10 am - 6 pm at Donato Arts located on 397 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Scores of works, new and ...

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26 October, 2016

ARC Associate Living Master™ Doug Zider will be holding a solo show of paintings and prints called "My Long Island" at the Kaiser Gallery, Molloy College - 1000 Hempstead Avenue, Rockville Centre, New ...

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ARC Living Artist™ Dr. Sivananda Nyayapathi is an accomplished artist who has exhibited in national and international juried competitions. This exhibition will showcase his portraits, still lives and ...

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In this five-day workshop with Paris-based artist and Grand Central Atelier alumnus Patrick Byrnes, participants will create a self-portrait drawing from direct observation using one or two mirrors an ...

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The Angel Academy of Art, Florence, offers the opportunity to learn drawing and painting as the Old Masters did. Whether you are a beginner looking to explore Realism in Florence or an experienced sch ...

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The Angel Academy of Art, Florence, offers the opportunity to learn drawing and painting as the Old Masters did. Whether you are a beginner looking to explore Realism in Florence or an experienced sch ...

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For more than a decade, Studio Incamminati, School for Contemporary Realist Art, has been a leader in the growing contemporary realist art movement. Founded by the late Nelson Shanks and his wife Leon ...

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Although appropriate for anyone wanting to increase their technical drawing skills, this weekend workshop is geared for art teachers. Participants will be introduced to a 19th century drawing curricul ...

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26 April, 2023

Selected entirely from the National Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition of approximately 80 recently acquired drawings and watercolors provides an overview of two centuries of British art. ...

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The Florence Academy of Art announces “Drawing on the Masters", an art auction fundraiser to benefit The Florence Academy of Art education programs.   Drawing on the Masters takes pla ...

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26 May, 2015

Curated by artist Colleen Barry, NUDE convenes twenty-five leaders of contemporary realism for a drawing show that celebrates the human form. Exhibited works will display a cross-section of styles, re ...

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More than 90 drawings and 27 paintings by such renowned Golden Age masters as Aelbert Cuyp, Pieter Jansz Saenredam, and Rembrandt van Rijn reveal the many ways Dutch artists used preliminary drawings ...

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ARC Living Master™ Gordon Hanley is holding an exhibition of 37 drawings in 24ct. gold and silver on paper at the Richard Randall Gallery - Mt. Coot-tha Botanic Gardens Brisbane, Australia from Augus ...

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15 September, 2016

ARC Living Master™ Julio Reyes will be among the artists exhibiting drawings in the show "Drawn To Greatness", which runs from September 17 - September 29, 2016.The opening reception takes place on Se ...

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This exhibition highlights more than 150 master drawings from the Thaw Collection, one of the world’s finest private collections containing over 400 works on paper. Assembled over the last ...

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This is the first major UK exhibition of German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer in nearly 20 years. Through paintings, drawings, prints, and letters, this exhibition follows Dürer’s travels acros ...

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Running through September 21st, Dürer's Women features over fifty of works from the Cleveland Museum of Art's distinguished collection of Dürer's prints and considers the artist's multivalent depict ...

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Observers in the seventeenth century described the Netherlands as the world’s marketplace. The Dutch East India Company, the world’s first multinational corporation, was founded in 1602 to dominate tr ...

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This exhibition highlights the extensive artistic and aesthetic exchanges between Dutch and French painters from the reign of Napoleon to the beginning of the twentieth century. Starting in the Firs ...

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This exhibition of Dutch drawings includes figure studies by Rembrandt van Rijn and Ferdinand Bol, rare landscapes by Cornelis Vroom and Jacques de Gheyn II, and botanicals by Maria Sibylla Merian and ...

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In this four-day course artists will explore the perspectives and methods of classical Dutch painters through a modern lens – from the ground/surface and brushes (check your supply list) to applicatio ...

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The Da Vinci Initiative, an ARC Allied Organization™, focusing on K-12 art education, was honored to have co-founder Mandy Hallenius invited as the the keynote speaker at the Idaho Art Education A ...

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2 April, 2015

The Da Vinci Initiative recently partnered with The Washington Art Education Association to send Mandy Hallenius, DVI President, to Washington D.C. to lobby for art education funding as part of Arts ...

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3 January, 2020

"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 ...

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February 22-23, 2015 at the Ani Art Academy WaichulisBear Creek Twp., PA This two-day workshop will explore several aspects of visual perception and language development to uncover an incredibly eff ...

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Register now for DVI workshops this winter. Each workshop is geared towards art educators and will be held at Gage Academy, home of the Juliette Aristides Atelier, in Seattle, Washington. The first ...

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