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The 2001 Portrait Arts Festival in New York City…
FOUR UNFORGETABLE DAYS
- Four exciting, jam-packed days in fabulous New York-art capital of the world-studying portrait painting with some of the nation's leading professional portrait artists. Our principle venue will be The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, located conveniently on beautiful Fifth Avenue.
- Observe Five portrait Demonstrations as leading artists, including world renowned Richard Schmid, paint for you, describing their methods as they work. The complete Festival Agenda is on page 6-7.
- Enjoy special presentations on the art of foremost contemporary American Artists Andrew Wyeth and his son Jamie Wyeth; each a recipient of the Society's highest award, the John Singer Sargent Medal. More on the Sargent Medal on the facing page.
- Interact with representatives of the leading portrait agencies. See box at the right on this page.
- Enter your work in the International Portrait Competition, which this year will award $15000 in cash prizes. More details on page 8.
- Receive a personal, professional critique of your work by one of the Festival leaders.
- Enjoy the gala Awards Dinner at the elegant New York Athletic Club on Central Park South.
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MASTER OF CEREMONIES
John Howard Sanden
DEMONSTRATION
Richard Schmid
David A. Leffel
John Howard Sanden
Martha Orozco
Michele Mitchell
LECTURES AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Peter Adams, President, The California Art Club
Marc Pachter, Director, The National Portrait Gallery,
The Smithsonian Institution
M. Stephen Doherty, Editor-in-Chief, American Artist
Fred Ross, Art Historian and Collector
John Howard Sanden
Richard Whitney
AGENCIES AND GALLERIES REPRESENTED
Portrait Brokers of America
Portraits South
The Portrait Source
The Portrait Group
A Stroke of Genius
Leon Loard Portraits, Inc.
MUSEUM AND GALLERY VISITS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art Students League of New York
The Frick Collection
The National Academy of Design Museum
The Hispanic Society of America
OTHER DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
Elaine Adams, Artist
Sandra Carpenter, Editor, The Artist's Magazine
Schuyler Chapin, Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York
Nancy Guzik, Artist
Arnold McRae, President, ASOPA Foundation
Kristen Thies, Art Publicist
Kimberly Till, Attorney and Copyright Expert
Jennifer F. Williams, Vice President and Director, ASOPA
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The American Society of Portrait Artists Foundation
A not-for-profit foundation dedicated to the furthering the fine art of portraiture.
Founded in 1987 by Alabama portraitist Leon Loard, The American Society of Portrait Artists now has members in 50 states in 26 nations, and is by far the largest association in the world representing the portrait profession. The Society publishes a quarterly journal, The Portrait Signature, and maintains an active internet website through which members are able to communicate with the Society and each other. In 1999, the society established the American Society of Portrait
Arnold McRae
President
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Jennifer F. Williams
Vice President & Director
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Artists Foundation, a not-for-profit 501 ( c ) (3) organization. Directed by a board of artist members, the Foundation organizes and presents a year-round program of seminars and workshops conducted in association with some of the nation's leading art schools and academies, presents scholarships to qualified art students at these schools, and offers the Portrait Arts Festival, the portrait profession's premier national study conference.
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THE ADVISORY BOARD
CHAIRMAN
Richard Whitney
VICE CHAIRMAN
Allan R. Banks
Elaine Adams
Peter Adams
Steve Childs
M. Stephen Doherty
Frank Mason
John Franklin Naylor
Martha Orozco
Carl Samson
John Howard Sanden
Margaret Holland Sargent
EMERITUS
Michael Del Priore
Darwin Musselman
Frank Tauriello
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| Festival brochure pages: front cover | 1 & 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 & 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | back cover |
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