Newsletter – April 2022

Visit the gallery until Saturday, April 9

Exhibiting Members Show

Tuesday through Friday, 12-5pm and Saturday from 10am-1pm.

More info and link to online gallery here!

Artists – reminder that pick up days are

Monday, April 11 (4-7pm) and Tuesday, April 12 (11am-2pm).

April 19 through May 14, 2022

All Media Juried Show, open to all artists

Receiving: Monday, April 11 (4-7pm) and Tuesday, April 12 (11am-2pm)

Opening Reception: Sunday, April 24 (4-6pm) ***delayed by one week for Easter

Cash Award: $250 Cash Award for Best in Show

Chair: Ronnie Gold    Co-chair: Barbara Hamill

Judge: Greg Shea

Greg Shea is an award-winning artist and craftsman with diverse creative interests including drawing and painting, portraiture, illustration, photography, relief printmaking, sculpture, calligraphy and illumination, woodworking plus more. For over twenty years, Greg has worked at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT, where he is the Senior Museum Preparator.

Questions? Email exhibitions@rowaytonarts.org

Spring 1 Classes Continue

There are a wide variety of in studio, online and hybrid classes plus workshops for adults of all levels in all mediums continuing through the end of April (Seen here is Mari Gyorgyey teaching a recent workshop “Working with Pen & Ink” in the studio.) The May/June session will be posted on the website next week. Review the entire schedule at rowaytonarts.org/education.

Three youth classes are being held in the studio until the end of May: “Creations” for ages 6 to 9, “Creative Explorations for 7 to 10 year olds” and “ClayPlay@RAC.” Summer Workshop registration is open for children ages 6-12 and focus on developing skills as well as individual expression. For more info on these classes, visit rowaytonarts.org/youth-classes-and-workshops.

RAC will also arrange private art classes and parties for all ages in small groups. Schedule a private weekly art class, a Paint and Sip party or Open Sketch session by contacting RAC Education Director Suzy Aubrey at education@rowaytonarts.org or call 203-866-2744 (x-2).

Print and Sip

Thursday, April 14

6:30-8:30pm

RAC Instructor Lisa Thoren will use gelli plate printmaking as an art in itself or to augment larger ideas. Gelli plates are easy to use and offer a myriad of ways to create designs and patterns.

Fee: $55 includes all supplies, wine and a gelli plate printmaking kit. More info and register online here.

Online Sketching with Watercolor

Thursday, April 21

4:30-6:00pm

RAC Instructor Sharon Schmiedel will show how watercolor is a great medium for on-the-go sketching. In this workshop, participants will combine watercolor and pencil to do small studies and then a small painting.

Fee: $30 (see website for a listing of suggested supplies). More info and register online here.

Painting Creatively from Photographs

Sunday, May 15

11:00am-3:00pm

In this workshop with Souby Boski, students learn to paint in a creative, personal, and expressive way using reference photos as inspiration. Color, value and composition will be the focus.

Fee: $115 (see website for a listing of suggested supplies). More info and register online here.

Online Photography Classes for Adults and Teens

Starting next week, Thom Williams will offer online classes open to all camera types: Intro to Lightroom (beginning April 6 from 4-5:30pm), Beginner 1 Photography (beginning April 6 from 6-7:30pm), Seeing and Shaping Light (beginning April 7 from 4-5:30pm) and Advanced Photography (beginning April 7 from 6-7:30pm). Review the entire schedule and register online via the RAC website at rowaytonarts.org/photography-classes.

Abstraction Reception

Sunday, March 27

This all media exhibition features almost one hundred pieces of artwork by RAC Exhibiting Members with a larger degree of independence from visual references. Pictured here (left to Right): Marcia Powell, widow of Hu Lindsay, chats with Robert Sachs, Brenda and Rick Pank, and her stepson David Lindsay.

Winners were chosen by the judge, Paul Efstathiou, Director of Contemporary Art at Hollis Taggart in Chelsea, NYC and Southport, CT: Hu Lindsay Award for Best in Mixed Media: Bevi Bullwinkel of Fairfield for “Composition 3,” 1st Place: Susan McHale of Greenwich for “Universe” (Collage), 2nd Place: Lisa Berger of Newtown for “Holding On” (Mixed Media), 3rd Place: Lauren Hunt of Norwalk for “Magenta” (Mixed Media) and Honorable Mention: Robert Sachs of Norwalk, “Waiting on Washington Street, Norwalk” (Photography).

RAC Executive Director Andrea Letters (left) with Exhibiting Member Maria Friscia

Show Co-Chair David Lindsay (left) with Chair Michael Brennecke (right)

RAC Exhibiting Members Dana Laird (left) with Gregg Welz (right)

Thanks to our bartenders – Exhibiting Members Carolyn Lyngholm and Richard Tedeshi

Chantey Sing

with Sean and Deirdre Murtha

Sunday, April 10

4 to 7pm

Lead, sing along and/or listen to chanteys, works songs, and other maritime songs. Bring your voices, instruments, friends and enthusiasm for sea music!

Fee: $5 (suggested donation). For more info, email sdmurtha@sbcglobal.net.

RAC Outreach with Horizons @ NCC

RAC will be a drop off location for Turning Pages & Horizons NCC Book Drive – donate your new or gently read pre-K to 8th grade books and give the gift or reading to a Norwalk child! Stop by during gallery hours until May 12.

Horizons NCC is also seeking volunteer mentors for a new high school program to work with rising 9th graders. Mentors are needed starting Late September/Early October with weekly or bi-weekly visits (virtual optional) for a minimum of four hours per month. Mentor training and support is provided throughout match. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to make a difference in a child’s life by motivating, guiding and inspiring a student in the Greater Norwalk Area! For more information, contact Karen Marin, Program Coordinator at kmarin@horizonsncc.org or (203) 929-7152.

Welcome to RAC – Marcia Brandwein, Ben Crowther, Lauren Hunt, Susan Magaziner, Lisa Silberman, and Christina Tugeau!