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Trepanier Film Up For Canadian Screen Film Award
2013/02/24 - Cory Trepanier's Into The Arctic II  film has been sharing the spectacular Canadian Arctic, through his unique artistic journeys, on televisions across...
Windows on Evolution, Science -Art -Nature 3rd Virtual Exhibit
2013/02/23 - The work of 40 artists allows viewers to peer into the process of evolution. Read the image captions, check the exhibit commentaries, see which of these examples...
Susan Lees Painting Raises $7000 for Wildlife Conservation
2013/01/15 - Susan Lees painting -Maximus- raises £5,200  for wildlife conservation projects.   She was commissioned at the end of 2012 to come up with...
Jammer Paintings for Ducks Unlimited 2013 National Sponsor Prints
2012/12/23 - Each year, DUC presents a National Sponsor Recognition package... a collection of exclusive products offered to DUC supporters to thank them for their generous...
Renso Tamse New Book - Wild in Europe
2012/12/23 - Dutch artist Renso Tamse is a young master of realistic style of watercolor. This book is a collection of paintings and sketches of wildlife encountered during...
Allaman Awarded in Tubac, AZ
2012/12/08 - In Vino Veritas I has earned the Award for Best Sculpture Done in a Realistic and Academic Manner at the 2012 American Women Artists National Juried Exhibit in...
Michael Dumas on Winning Streak
2012/12/08 -  In addition to Michael receiving an AFC Medal of Excellence 2012 for his painting 'Trust' which was presented to him at this year's festival event in...
Leo Osborne's Lost and Found Sculpture
2012/10/31 -  Living in Maine in the mid 80's, Leo Osborne was inspired to carve two merganser ducks after seeing them playing in the springtime ritual of a mating dance...
Richard Ellis Featured in New York Times in a special science article.
Richard Ellis Featured in New York Times.
2012/08/25 - Following is the text of an article on Richard Ellis published in the New York Times on Aug 20, 2012 . See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/science/guardian-of-...
Rusin Awarded in Lewiston, NY and Buffalo Niagara , NY
2012/08/23 - Len Rusin's plein air oil painting "Swamp Reflection" won its second award in less than a year winnning first place for painting in the 2012 Lewiston Arts...
AFC Artists, Andrew Denman and Guy Combes Open First Joint Exhibition in UK
Old World - New World | Wildlife Art Exhibition by Guy Combes and Andrew Denman2012/08/07 - Internationally recognized artists Andrew Denman and Guy Combes open their first joint exhibition, "Old World-New World; the Wildlife Art of Guy Combes &...
AFC's Gregory Wellman to lead Art Safaris in Tanzania
2012/05/31 - AFC's Gregory Wellman to lead Art Safaris in Tanzania AFC member Gregory Wellman from the UK is running art safaris to Northern Tanzania for wildlife artists....
Stanley Meltzoff: Oceans and Other Worlds Exhibition
Exhibition Opens June 6 in New York2012/05/31 - Universally acknowledged as the first and still finest artist ever to paint the world's apex game fish, Stanley Meltzoff was born in Brooklyn and went on to to...
Mark Hobson
Hobson Champions Protection of Canada’s West Coast Wilderness
2012/04/22 - AFC Signature Member, Mark Hobson from Tofino, Vancouver Island is the visionary and driving force behind a new project for fifty artists to portray Canada...
Pollyanna Pickering becomes Patron of Parrotaid
2012/03/14 -   Pollyanna and her daughter Anna-Louise are pleased to have accepted the roles of joint patrons of the organisation Parrotaid. Parrotaid is a non profit...
Dodge and Dumas Jointly Recognized in Leading Canadian Arts Magazine
2012/03/14 - Most people in fine art circles would recognize internationally known Michael Dumas’ name in relationship to his outstanding talent as a painter of the...
AFC Flag Expedition book by Ria Winters on Flora and Fauna of Mauritius
Book on Ria Winters' AFC Trip To Mauritius
AFC Flag Expedition 8: Ria Winters2012/02/10 - Two years after the  Ria Winters Flag Expedition to Mauritius a beautiful full colour book has been published about the extinct and endemic fauna of...
Seeking Refuge -- Four Seasons on Assateague Island
Sandra Blair Launches Fundraising Project2011/10/04 - Assateague Island, a tiny barrier island on the Atlantic Coast of Maryland and Virginia, is home to Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague National...
Ian Griffiths BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year
Animals in their Enviroment Category2011/08/14 - With two of Griffiths' paintings selected for the finals of the BBC wildlife artist of the year including these Spix Macaws and the other, a Kingfisher, was...
Pollyanna Pickering Foundation Helps Save Namibian Painted Dogs
2011/08/14 - The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation has funded the building of an enclosure for the rehabiliation of Painted Dogs at the N/a’an ku sê Wildlife...
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