Supporting EXCEPTIONAL contemporary artists

The MacAvoy Foundation supports artists producing timeless, meaningful art using masterful techniques.

Since 2023, we have been working with the Art Renewal Center to advance its goal of rewarding and promoting exceptional contemporary realist artists. In 2024, our donation of $25,000 for Best in Show for the 17th International ARC Salon was awarded to artist Pavel Sokov for his oil painting Watching the Dance.

Our additional donation of $20,000 enabled the ARC to acquire three other exceptional works submitted to the same salon: Sinisha Kashawelski’s Magna Mater, which received an honorable mention in the Imaginative Realism category; Olivera Pudar’s The Black Nocturne, and Blair Atherholt’s Lest Ye Become, which won an honorable mention in the Still Life category.

To read more about our partnership with ARC, click here.