Next Exhibition
BIG & small
April 14 – May 11, 2019
Exhibiting Members Show
For this exhibition, RAC encourages artists go BIG or go small! This is your chance to submit works that are BIG (between 40″ and 60”) or small (12” and under). Think outside the box or into it!
Receiving: Monday, April 8 (4 – 7pm) and Tuesday, April 9 (11am – 2pm)
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 14 (4 to 6pm)
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Spring Juried Show
May 19 – June 16, 2019
Open Juried Show
Online Submissions: February 25 – April 19
Receiving: Sunday, May 12 (11am – 2pm) and Monday, May 13 (4pm – 7pm)
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 19 (4 to 6pm)
There will be an Entry Thingy tutorial with tips on resizing images for artists needing assistance with the online submission process on Thursday, April 4 from 5:30 to 7 pm at the gallery !
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Open Sketch
Sunday afternoons twice a month
12:00pm – 3:00 pm
Fee $15
Sunday afternoons in the studio with live model, open to all artists (no need for RAC membership!)
Check website for dates…
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Friday, April 26
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Fee: $45
Chef Lisa from SproutChefs.com is back again with her artful culinary activities. She will tap into children’s creativity to design and make their own sweet-art. Each participant will have the chance to: assemble and decorate a panoramic sugar egg, design and decorate nature inspired cookies, plus decorate a 5” cake using bunny and chick Peeps, coconut and candy eggs. All creations will go home after class. Register here !
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Afternoon Creativi-TEA
Friday, May 3
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Fee: $45
Our Creativi-TEA will be a unique blend of painting in our newly renovated gallery and enjoying tea on our lovely deck overlooking the Five Mile River. Anne E. McCormick, our local paint and tea expert, will lead the participants through paintings of vibrant tea cups, coffee pots and flowers using a variety of water media. It will be a feast of creativity, tea and pastries. Art experience is not necessary.
Perfect for an early Mother’s day activity or to celebrate Spring! Festive hats are optional. For further information or any questions, please call 203-866-2744 ext. 2 or email education@rowaytonarts.org .
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RAC Opening: Photography, Sculpture & Fiber Art, March 9, 2019
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Sam Massey with his black and white photographs that won Best in Show, “NYA 2019.” Sam lives in L.A. but grew up in Rowayton. (He is the son of RAC Exhibiting Member Lynn Stephens Massey!)
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Judith Marchand (left) of Modern Fossils discussing her artwork “SOS” – 3rd Place, Sculpture – with Lisabeth Reddington (center) and Lisa Keuker (right).
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Charlotte Stone with “Romance in the City” – 2nd Place, Black & White Photography
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Board Member Kathleen Weinstock (left) with Chair Kirsti Holtan (right)
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Board President Steve Mernick and Executive Director Andrea Letters with her artwork – the photo at the top “Under Wraps” won 2nd Place, Color Photography.
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Tom Manning and Mari Gyorgyey with his sculpture “HARMONY” – 1st Place, Sculpture
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Scott Glaser with “Art by Accident David” – First Place, Fiber Art
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Chuck Jennes with one of his award-winning photos “Ursula Major” (at top) – 3rd Place, Color Photography. He also won 1st Place, Black & White Photography for “Pardonne-Moi.”
It was a cold and dreary day – thanks to all who came out to view the show!!!
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Winners for the following categories were announced at the opening:
Sam Massey for “NYA 2019” (Best in Show)
Scott Glaser for “Art by Accident David” (1 st Place, Fiber Art)
Kerry Long for “After” (1 st Place, Color Photography)
Andrea Letters for “Under Wraps” (2 nd Place, Color Photography)
Chuck Jennes for “Ursula Major #2” (3 rd Place, Color Photography) as well as “Pardonne-Moi” (1 st Place, Black & White Photography)
Charlotte Stone for “Romance in the City” (2 nd Place, Black & White Photography)
Rick Bannerot for “The Moment” (3 rd Place, Black & White Photography)
Tom Manning for “HARMONY” (1 st Place, Sculpture)
Chris Perry for “Ripples: glass of water”
Judith Manchard for “SOS” (3 rd Place, Sculpture)
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@RAC Artists Talk March 27, 2019
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It was an inspired evening of conversation with artists in the “Photography, Sculpture & Fiber Art” exhibition as moderated by Mindy Green to learn more about the creative process from four artists devoted to their work. (Clockwise from top left: Janine Brown, Rick Bannerot, Andrea Letters and Scott Glaser)
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In response to feedback about this year’s juried photography show, some thoughts from the RAC archives…
On Juried Shows
Why have juried shows? Juried shows are exciting. If you get in, you like them – if you don’t get in, you may not. Curated by an esteemed judge, and drawing work from the surrounding communities, juried shows tend to raise the level of work in the gallery. There are cash prizes, which encourage large numbers of entries and create increased revenue for RAC.
Under the aegis of a respected judge to select and discriminate, juried shows provide an opportunity for artists to measure themselves against their peers in the art community… for better or worse. “Worse,” means Rejection.
In her 70s (editorial comment: a very young 70s!), your writer is a veteran of both rejections and acceptances, and I feel I can speak authoritatively on the subject. Go into these shows with a spirit of adventure and learning. If you are rejected, so be it. As will many of your friends be rejected, and many other good artists. The judge is the Decider. One “esteemed” individual artist or critic temporarily holds your artistic fate in his or her hands – on person’s estimate of your work will determine whether your work hangs or gets picked up. One man’s or one woman’s opinion.
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As Constance Kiermaier opined: “If you are accepted, it means something. If you are not accepted, it doesn’t mean a thing.” Constance is a renowned artist from Westport who has taught at RAC and has a devoted following at the Darien Arts Council. I love her personal story of rejection: She tells of entering a painting in a juried show one year and having it summarily rejected. She submitted the same painting the next year to the same juried show, and it won “Best in Show!”
RAC mounts eleven shows each year, more than any other art society that I know of – giving out members many chances to display their work. Our juried shows give us the opportunity to measure our work against the larger art community of professionals and fine artists, and compete for the limited hanging space on RAC’s gallery walls. The judge of our Mavis Fenner Show, the eminent Anne Chernow, was heard to remark on the extraordinary quality of the work submitted to the show and she regretted that many fine works had to be turned away.
Remember: Van Gogh never sold a piece of his work – Rejection? Perhaps. Thomas Kincaid has a multi-million dollar art business and has sold thousands of his reproductions. But he has no paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rejection? Maybe, but I suspect he doesn’t care. Attitude is everything. Acceptance? Rejection? C’est la vie! Create art for the joy of it!
Joan Manning
RAC Exhibiting Member and former Board Member
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March 9 through June 2
“Coming Home” series by Heidi Lewis Coleman
Bruce Museum
1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830 (203) 869-0376
April 3 through May 16 **Opening April 7, 2 to 4 pm
“Paper 2019”
Work by Katherine Draper
Silvermine Galleries
1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 (203) 966-9700
April 11 through June 23
“Historic Grounds & Modern Gardens”
Work by Richard Koleszar
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum
295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06850 (203) 838-9799
Until May 10
“Migrating Colors” Exhibit
Some of the artists featured: Kirsti Holtan, Nancy Breakstone
Maritime Garage Gallery
11 North Water Street, Norwalk, CT 06854
Until April 25
Paintings by Veronica Hofstetter
Gallery at Pearl , Pearl at Longshore Restaurant and Bar
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Registration is open for the May/June class session,
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