An impressive group of the country’s most talented artists will have their paintings on view at the Bennington Center for the Arts from June 9 - July 14, 2012. Included in the exhibition are several prominent plein air painters, among them are Daniel F. Gerhartz, Stephen C. Datz, Charles Muench, Amery Bohling, Josh Elliott, and Rusty Jones.

Ray Roberts and Charles Muench, along with former tattoo artist Sergio Sanchez, received top awards in the California Art Club’s 101st Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition on view in Los Angeles until April 22, 2012. Renowned landscape painter Ray Roberts, whose Gold Medal painting is on the cover of the April/May issue of PleinAir magazine, and sculptor Lynn Christopher received Gold Medals for “Best of Show” honors on Saturday, March 31.

As part of Streamline Publishing’s exciting new DVD program, Erik Koeppel has just finished filming a program on the painting techniques he uses that are based on America’s first indigenous school of art, The Hudson River School. This informative new program will soon be released to accompany the program already available on artist Max Ginsburg (www.GinsburgVideo.com).

Audiences were spellbound by Eric Rhoad’s dynamic presentations in California last weekend. Rhoads, publisher of both PleinAir and Fine Art Connoisseur magazines, moderated panels during the California Art Club’s (CAC) Winter Symposium in San Francisco and the Los Angeles Art Show: Historic and Traditional convention. He will offer the same kinds of informative and motivating presentations during the 1st Annual PleinAir Convention & Expo in Las Vegas from April 12-15, 2012. 

PleinAir and Fine Art Connoisseur (FAC) magazines' parent company Streamline Publishing, is about to release its first information-packed DVD on a major American artist, Max Ginsburg. The Ginsburg DVD is available January 31st so you can save $30 by pre-ordering now at www.GinsburgVideo.com. You can also register to win a Ginsburg painting at www.WinGinsburg.com. To watch a short video trailer and pre-order the DVD set, visit www.GinsburgVideo.com.

One of the artists who will be traveling from outside the United States to participate in the 1st Annual PleinAir Convention & Expo from April 12-15, 2012 is Ulrich Gleiter, a German artist who studied at the Repin Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.