What Is Art School Live?

Art School Live, launched during the start of pandemic lockdowns in 2020, features a different artist each day who teaches art principles through demonstration. The show streamed seven days a week for its first seven months and has been five days a week on YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms since then. The show has had several million views total, with the highest single-show viewing at 250,000 after replays. Art School Live has 136,000+ YouTube subscribers and a worldwide audience in over 60 countries. Live views of the show, streamed at 12pm Eastern, range from 100-300 people; most viewing takes place on replays posted on social media.

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Get to Know the Host of Art School Live

Eric Rhoads is the publisher of Fine Art Connoisseur, a print magazine for art collectors and artists, and PleinAir, a print magazine about the outdoor painting movement. He is chairman of Streamline Publishing, Inc., which also publishes free newsletters like Plein Air Today, Fine Art Today, Inside Art, American Watercolor, Realism Today, and Pastel Today.

Eric hosts the annual Plein Air Convention & Expo as well as the Figurative Art Convention & Expo, last held pre-Covid. He has produced over 600 full-length art instruction videos with the world’s leading artists that stream on the company’s PaintTube.TV app on Roku, AppleTV, Samsung, and Amazon Fire. He also hosts five four-day virtual conferences — Watercolor Live, PleinAir Live, Realism Live, Pastel Live, and Acrylic Live — featuring the world’s master artists and attended by thousands worldwide.

Eric hosts the PleinAir Podcast and the Art Marketing Podcast, and he is also an artist with artwork in multiple galleries.

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