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• Mary Pettis

• Fred Ross

• Jean Stern

• Eric Rhoads

ARC Jurors

Fred Ross ARC Chairman

Founder and Chairman of the Art Renewal Center, Ross is the leading authorization on William Bouguereau and co-author of the published Catalogue Raisonné William Bouguereau: His Life and Works. Ross received his MA in art didactics from Columbia Academy. His speeches and essays are read by over 300,000 art professionals, educators, students and fans each yr; and have become required reading in countless classrooms. He has given lectures and speeches at prominent venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby'south NY, The Dahesh Museum, NY, the Berkshire Museum, MA, The Wadsworth Athenaeum, CT, the MEAM Museum, Barcelona, too equally university campuses among other venues. Ross is as well a well-known collector of 19th Century European painting and of Gimmicky Realism, being published in numerous magazine and newspaper manufactures including Forbes Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur among others. Ross has also been a frequent Juror in numerous competitions and is an ARC Salon and ARC Scholarship gauge.

Kara Lysandra Ross ARC Co-Chair and Chief Operating Officeholder

Kara Lysandra Ross is the Co-Chair and Master Operating Officer for the world-renowned Art Renewal Center (ARC). She holds a BA in Fine art History from Drew Academy. Every bit an art educator she has been a contributing writer for Collections Magazine, and Fine Art Connoisseur, and has been published frequently in other magazines and newspapers. She was the co-editor of the William Bouguereau Catalogue Raisonné and author of affiliate 28 in the published 2nd edition. In her role at the ARC she spearheaded the introduction of the live exhibition associated to the ARC Salon Competition which has traveled to prestigious venues such equally Sotheby'south NY, Sotheby's LA, The European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) and the Salmagundi Club, serving as primary organizer and curator. She is an ARC Salon Juror, and has served equally juror in other competitions for organizations such equally the 2nd Velázquez Painting & Sculpture competition, China, the South African Portrait Guild, International Guild of Realism, Ix Arts, and the Ani Academy. She is besides an adept on 19th century Academic French and English painting, co-authoring William Bouguereau: The Essential Works and is currently researching and writing the catalogue raisonné on Edmund Blair Leighton, for which she is accepted every bit the world authorization, authenticating works past this artist for Sotheby's, Christie's, and Bonham's amongst others.

Dr. Vern Swanson

Swanson has his PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England and was the Manager of the Springville Museum of Art, Utah, where he has served for over thirty years. He is a lecturer/scholar/writer and expert on 19^th Century European Art and Russian Fine art through the 20^th Century. Swanson is the leading potency on Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema and John William Godward and author of the Catalogue Raisonnés for both artists. In total, the number of books Swanson has published is well into the teens.

Michael John Affections

Michael John Angel is an ARC Living Main™ and regarded equally one of the foremost figurative painters alive today; with his paintings hanging in both public and private collections on both sides of the Atlantic. From 1982 to 1988 he was the Director of the National Portrait Academy in Toronto, Canada, and from 1992-1995 the Assistant Manager of the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. In 1997, his school, the Affections Academy was founded with the assist of Lynne Barton. Angel Academy is now one of the most successful Atelier Schools in the world, requiring of its students the highest standards of traditional techniques.

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Juliette Aristides

Juliette Aristides is an ARC Living Master™ and founding member of the H2o Street Atelier with Jacob Collins, Aristides is a recipient of the Elisabeth Greenshields Grant; and founded the Classical Atelier at Cuff University of Fine Art in Seattle, Washington. She has authored three books, Classical Cartoon Atelier, Classical Painting Atelier, and Lessons in Classical Drawing, which includes an instructional DVD and quickly became a best seller. Her books have go well received guidelines for cartoon and painting.

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Daniel Graves

Daniel Graves is an ARC Living Master™. He was a student of Richard Serrin at the Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Fine art, and studied under Nerina Simi, daughter of the Florentine painter, Filadelfo Simi, a student of Gérôme. Daniel Graves went on to found The Florence Academy of Fine art in 1991, where he notwithstanding serves as the Academic Director. In April 2008 Daniel Graves and The Florence Academy of Art received the Excellence in Art Education Honour from the Portrait Club of America. The university'southward programs in Florence, Sweden and the U.S. are accredited by the National Association of Schools of Fine art and Design.

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Anthony Waichulis

Anthony Waichulis is an ARC Living Principal™ and is regarded as the premiere trompe l'oeil painter living today. Historic past critics and collectors alike, Waichulis' works take been published in virtually every major art publication worldwide including simply not express to: The Creative person'southward Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Creative person, American Art Review, American Fine art Collector, Art News and Art-Talk. Anthony has exhibited in a salvo of fundamental venues across the country including the Smithsonian Constitute, National Arts Social club, Orlando Museum of Art, Butler Institute, Washington Museum of Fine Arts, The World Arts Museum in Beijing besides as many others. He is also the founder of the highly successful Waichulis Studio and co-founder and master curriculum designer of the International Ani Art Academies project. In 2011 The Waichulis Studio merged with the Ani Art Academies project to course the domestic flagship of the Ani project, The Ani Fine art Academy Waichulis in Wilkes Barre, PA. Since then the Ani Art Academies project has seen the launch of two international Academies, Ani Fine art University Anguilla and Dominicana. Boosted Academies using Waichulis' at present celebrated curriculum are also scheduled to open in Thailand and Sri Lanka in 2015.

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Patrick Wilshire

Patrick Wilshire is the Director of the Association of Fantastic Art, dedicated to the promotion, recognition and elevation of the art of imaginative realism. This genre includes works that were heavily influenced by the storytelling paintings of the 19^th century; artists such equally Burne-Jones and John William Waterhouse. It is the organisation behind the groundbreaking IlluXCon symposium started in 2008, and the Illustration Exchange, the online nexus for collectors of original paintings, drawings and sculpture from this mode of realist fine art. In add-on he is the author of Visions of Never: The Collection of Fantastic Art, (2009), The Fine art of the Dragon: The Definitive Drove of Contemporary Dragon Paintings (2012), and the History of Imaginative Realism. He was too honored to exist the guest curator of AT THE Edge: Art of the Fantastic, mounted at the Allentown Fine art Museum, PA, in June of 2012.

Peter Trippi

Former Manager of the Dahesh Museum of Art, Trippi is now the Editor of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, which provides art collectors and enthusiasts with in-depth editorial coverage of historical and contemporary representational fine art authored by well-known experts. Mr. Trippi is besides the leading authorization on John William Waterhouse,(1849-1917) and the author of J. W. Waterhouse, which was published past Phaidon Press in 2002.

B. Eric Rhoads

B. Eric Rhoads is the Founder and Chairman of Streamline Publishing, Inc., publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur Mag, which provides art collectors and enthusiasts with in-depth editorial coverage of historical and contemporary representational art authored past well-known experts. Rhoads also publishes PleinAir, a magazine focused on representational landscape painting with in-depth coverage of historical and contemporary artworks painted en' plein air and in studio and the Plein Air Convention. The company also produces creative person videos with many masters including ARC Living Master™ Max Ginsburg. Rhoads, an entrepreneur, founded the company in 1986 and produces other magazines and conferences. He is a well known author and blogger on art marketing, has released a DVD series for artists on art marketing, and is as well a landscape and figurative painter.

Guest Jurors

Mary Pettis

Drawing upon her classical, alla prima, and plein air preparation, Mary Pettis' work stands on the cut edge of the International Contemporary Realism movement. Mary has won awards in national and international painting events and exhibitions from New York City to Scottsdale and Maui to Barcelona. In 2017, Mary became the 9th American adult female painter to receive the designation ARC Living Master (ARCLM) by the Art Renewal Center. She is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Club (AIS), the American Gild of Marine Artists (ASMA), and the Oil Painters of America (OPA). Her fine art has taken her to the far corners of the world: China, Russia, and much of Europe. She has exhibited widely, including the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and collectors of her work reach across the earth. Mary divides her time every bit between the studio and outdoors. Her decades of training and the experiences from hundreds of plein air paintings are a catalyst for a symbolic visual language of expression that celebrates the beauty, dignity and worth of this earth and its inhabitants. Mary and her husband Randy live along the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway in Minnesota. Her piece of work, along with information on galleries, exhibitions, and workshops can be found on her website at www.marypettis.com.

Didi Menendez

Didi (Dulce) Menendez is a Cuban-born American publisher and digital artist. She is the Marketing Director and Curator at 33 Contemporary in Chicago. Besides 33 Contemporary, she has curated group shows at Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, NY, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, the MEAM in Barcelona, Sirona Fine Fine art Gallery in Florida, Flinders Lane Gallery in Australia, RJD Gallery in New York, and at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago. She is considered a pioneer of the online poetry publishing arena since the terminal century. Her publications have been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize Best of the Pocket-size Presses, and All-time American Poetry series. She runs a very active figurative art community at PoetsArtists. A selection of her publications are archived at the U.s.a. Library of Congress and with the Peregrine Collection a payload scheduled to exist archived on the moon by Dr. Samuel Peralta.

D. Eleinne Basa

Born in Manila, Philippines, 1967, D. Eleinne Basa now calls the Eastward Coast dwelling, having immigrated in 1994 to the U.s.a.. Eleinne'southward evocative landscapes take been shown in important invitational and juried shows throughout the country, such as "The Collectors Reserve" at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa , OK , the California Art Social club'south "Gold Medal Exhibition and Auction" at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, CA, the "On Location in Malibu Landscapes" evidence at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum in Malibu, CA, the "Settlers W Great American West" show in Tucson AZ, the "National Cowboy Museum Miniature" prove in Oklahoma City, OK, the CM Russell Museum in Bang-up Falls, MT, and the Brinton Museum in Sheridan, WY. In 2016, and 2018 she was invited to be part of the "American Masters Exhibition" at the Salmagundi guild in NY, NY. She also has won multiple awards for her work, most notable is the $fifteen,000 Thou Prize in the offset Plein Air Salon hosted past "Plein Air Magazine" and the Artists Pick award and Best in Show in the 2018 American Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi Social club. Her work has also been recognized as a finalist in the 2014/2015, 2017/2018, 2019/2020, and 2020/2021 ARC Salon Competitions. In the 15th ARC Salon, she garnered two awards, the Artist's Library Award, for "Hope of a Rainbow," and 3rd Place Mural Award for her piece of work of "Snow Moon." Both of these works participated in the 15th ARC Salon Exhibition at Sotheby'southward NY, July 2021, with "Promise of a Rainbow" selling at auction in the sale "Contemporary Realism: Of import 21st Century Works". She was as well awarded an Art of the West award of Excellence in the 2012 California Fine art club Gold Medal Show at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, CA and People's Choice Honour at the 2018 "Inaugural American Tonalist Guild Show" at the Salmagundi Club, NYC.

Her works accept been featured in numerous mag publications including "Fine Fine art Connoisseur," "Plein Air Magazine," where she has been on the encompass in 2012, "Art of the W," "Southwest Art," "American Art Collector," "Western Art Collector," and "Western Art and Architecture." Eleinne Basa finds inspiration in the work of 19th-century American painters such as tonalist George Inness also as in the delicate, muted landscapes by Spanish artist Emilio Sánchez-Perrier. Amidst her favorite Landscape painters are American artists, Thomas Moran, Emile Carlsen, George Inness and Hugh Bolton Jones.

Judith Kudlow

Judith Kudlow is the President and Director of the ARC Approved™ NYK Academy, opened originally in 2002 with Andrea Smith, a Florence University graduate. Her working method is based on the nineteenth century bookish tradition which emphasizes working from life to produce paintings based on precise drawing, careful modeling to produce the three-dimensional illusion, harmonious and accurate colors and values, and compositions based on time-honored rules. As an artist herself, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1993. She is represented by Anderson Fine Art Gallery, GA, Somerville Manning, DE and Principle Gallery, VA. Her works accept been published in prominent publications including American Artist Mag, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Sun among others.

Li Xiangqun

Li Xiangqun, born in 1961, is president of the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Vice-Director of China Artists Clan, Professor & PhD Supervisor, Tsinghua Academy Academy of Art and Design, Fellow member of the Exhibition Review Commission of the National Museum of China, Deputy Director of the National Major Theme Art Creation Commission, and Vice Chairman of the Steering Committee of Art Education in colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education in Red china. In add-on, Li Xiangqun is a famous contemporary Chinese sculptor and educator with more than than xl years of teaching practice, and his sculptures accept won many national and international honors.

Joseph McGurl

Joseph McGurl was built-in in Massachusetts in 1958. He grew upwardly working with his begetter, James McGurl, who was a muralist and his most influential teacher. He graduated from Massachusetts College of Fine art with a dual major in painting and pedagogy, continuing his studies in England and Italy. In search of a more solid training in drawing, he sought out Robert Cormier, a devotee of the French Academy methods, with whom he studied figure cartoon. McGurl's paintings have been included in several museum exhibitions in Massachusetts, New York, California, and Rhode Isle as well as being exhibited in several group museum exhibitions which travelled throughout the state. He had retrospective solo shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, The Cahoon Museum of American Fine art, and the Saint Botolph Club of Boston. He was a participant in the Sea to Shining Sea Exhibition which traveled to twelve museums over a four-yr menses. Representing Representation, included his work in their show at the Arnot Art Museum, and he simultaneously exhibited at the concurrent Representing Representation West which showcased at the Rockwell Museum of Western Fine art. He also exhibited at the Salmagundi Guild, NYC, Sotheby's Los Angeles and the European Museum of Mod Fine art, (MEAM) in the 13th ARC Salon Exhibition. McGurl has been elected to the Guild of Boston Artists and is a former Copley Principal with the Copley Lodge of Boston as well equally a current ARC Living Master. He has won superlative awards from all 3 organizations including the John Singleton Copley Laurels for Artistic Accomplishment, 1st Place Landscape in the 9th and 13th International ARC Salon Competition, and an ARC Buy Award for his work of Creation in Time and Space in 2013. He is also a one-time elected Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists.

Renée Bemis

Renée Bemis has served on the lath of the Society of Animal Artists (SAA) for over 25 years with the last five years serving equally the President. She is currently​ a boyfriend fellow member of the American Artists Professional person League, and a distinguished member of the American Gild of Marine Artists, and Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club. Renee has been a professional artist for 35 years. In 1994 Renée won her first awe-inspiring public commission "Returning on the Wings of Peace" a 16' foot sculpture depicting a Veteran with his kid on his shoulders that was installed at the entrance of a Veteran'due south Hospital. In the ensuing years, Renée has created public monuments for Universities, Hospitals, Libraries, Parks, with ane of her latest pieces existence a memorial to the 9/11 Emergency Responders where Renée had steel from the Northward Tower as part of her pattern. She has won numerous awards including multiple "All-time in Show", " Medal of Honour" and "President's Awards" ​Renée'south sculptures accept been acquired past museums for their permanent collection and are institute in private collections effectually the world.

Arantzazu Martinez

Arantzazu Martinez is a figurative oil painter and an ARC Living Master. Later graduating Fine Arts in Spain she studied at the New York University of Art and the H2o Street Atelier. She has since painted for Lucasfilm as part of the Star Wars Visions project, represented Spain in the Images of Russia project, and won Best in Prove ARC 2015.

She is the co-founder and a principle instructor of Atelier Madrid. Motivated past feel, the Atelier Madrid has provided a space dedicated to didactics the classical process of drawing and painting in the traditional mode.

Her paintings are in the permanent collection of the European Museum of Modern Fine art and a number of pinnacle collections, including the Ibex Collection. She is an Ibex Master and will be exhibiting her personal masterpiece, after two and a half years of work on it, together with xv of the finest global contemporary figurative super-realist artists, at the Ibex Masters exhibition in New York in September 2019. Arantzazu is a passionate advocate for women in art and is a regular speaker on the problems faced by women seeking to build a career equally a professional creative person.

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Jean Stern

A recognized potency on California Impressionism, Art Historian Jean Stern has extensive experience in the field as an writer, curator, lecturer, and teacher. He is the executive director of the Irvine Museum Collection at the Academy of California, Irvine. In over xx-five years at the museum, he has established a national presence for the Irvine Museum in the fields of California Fine art and History through a noteworthy international serial of books, exhibitions, lectures, manufactures and video documentaries. In his career, he has presented over 250 lectures and judged and juried virtually 100 art competitions. Mr. Stern has written essays for over 25 books and museum exhibition catalogues, such equally all iii PLEIN AIR PAINTERS OF CALIFORNIA series. He has presented tours and lectures on California Art in numerous museums including the International Cultural Centre, Krakow, Poland; Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris, France; National University Museum in New York likewise as many others. He was a consultant to and appears in IMPRESSIONS OF CALIFORNIA, a PBS documentary video series on fine art in California, and on PLEIN AIR: PAINTING THE AMERICAN Mural, (PBS 2007). Since 1992, the Irvine Museum, with Jean Stern as director, has produced a number of traveling exhibitions, including SELECTIONS FROM THE IRVINE MUSEUM (1993 and 2010); ROMANCE OF THE BELLS, The California Missions in Art (1995); GUY ROSE, and more. In 2017, Mr. Stern received the prestigious CHEVALIER OF THE Order OF ARTS AND LETTERS past the French Ministry of Civilization. He has likewise been presented with iii LIFETIME Accomplishment AWARDS: by the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association in 2013; past the Plein Air Painters of America in 2014; and by PLEIN AIR Mag, at the Third Annual Plein Air Convention in Monterey, CA, in 2014.

Dan Thompson

Dan Thompson, an ARC Living Master™, has won numerous awards including M Prize for Best of Show in the American Guild of Portrait Creative person's International Portrait Contest at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Erlebacher Award from the New York Academy of Art, ii Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Awards for Excellence in Painting from the Corcoran Schoolhouse of Fine art, and ii Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants.

He co-founded ii schools of Art in New York City: The Grand Central Academy of Art and the Janus Collaborative School of Art. Thompson has served on the MFA kinesthesia of the New York Academy of Fine art for 15 years, the Art Students League of New York and is a senior faculty member of Studio Incamminati, Schoolhouse for Gimmicky Realist Art in Philadelphia.

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Xu Mangyao

Xu Mangyao is a leading figure in contemporary Chinese realistic painting and is ane of the few teachers who actively advocates study and inherit excellence in classical paintings in modernistic China. He has promoted the evolution of realistic fine art worldwide, past hosting a series of Classical Painting Seminars with European classical painting masters such as Antonio Lopez-Garcia, Golucho, and Odd Nerdrum in Espana, Italy and China. Xu Mangyao, was born in 1945 and is a famous contemporary Chinese painter. In 1980, he received his MFA in painting from the China University of Art, and afterwards became an instructor at the CAA painting department. In 1984, Xu Mangyao continued to accelerate his studies at the Acaddémie des Beaux-Arts, Paris France, with Professor Pierre Carron. From November 1991 to January 1993, he returned to France equally a visiting scholar for bookish exchange at the National Academy of Decorative Arts in Paris (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs). In 1998, he began instruction at the Fine Arts College of Shanghai Normal University, and later became professor and dean of the Fine Arts College of Shanghai Normal University. Xu Mangyao holds the positions of Distinguished Professor and Ph. D. Tutor in the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts. He has held individual exhibitions and joint exhibitions in Cathay, Hong Kong, Macao, France, America, Britain, and Belgium. His works accept been aquired by museums and collectors alike.

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