Now through July 25
Exhibiting Member Show
Visit Tuesday through Friday 12-5pm or
Saturday and Sunday from 10am-1pm.
More info and a list of award recipients plus award recipients here!
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August 1 – 29, 2021
Juried Show Open to All Artists, Photography and Sculpture ONLY
Deadline for submissions: Friday, July 9 ***DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!
Accepted Artists Notified: Friday, July 16
Receiving: Monday, July 26 (4-7pm) and Tuesday, July 27 (11am-2pm)
Opening Reception: Sunday, August 1 (4-6pm)
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RAC Classes and Workshops
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ONLINE “Visual Experiments with Collage and Crayons”
Thursday, July 8
4:30-6:30pm
RAC Instructor Lenny Moskowitz will show students how to transform a seemingly bland photographic image into a brilliantly composed collage (his artwork here). Open to all levels. Fee $30.
More info and register online here.
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“Abstract Flowers”
Saturday, July 17
10:30am-4pm
This one-day workshop is about exploring drawing, painting and collaging flowers. Lenny Moskowitz (his painting here) will cover the basics of value, color and composition while using an assortment of mixed media. Fee: $85 includes many of RAC’s supplies.
More info and register online here.
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“Paint & Sip”
Thursday, July 22
6:30-8:30pm
Paint & Sips are back in studio! Join RAC Instructor Mari Gyorgyey as she leads participants through a Matisse-inspired painting (seen here). Students are welcome to follow along or paint something of their own.
Fee: $45 (includes all equipment, materials and wine!) More info and register online here.
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Summer Session July/August
RAC’s Summer Session begins next week with classes for adults and children both online and in studio. (Here’s RAC Instructor Judy Orseck Katz with her students on our back porch!) There is a new “Play with Clay” youth class as well as our popular 3-Day Art Workshops for Kids. To review the entire schedule, visit rowaytonarts.org/education. RAC will also arrange private art classes and parties for groups of six or less. Whether it be a private weekly art class, a Paint and Sip party or Open Sketch session, contact Education Director Suzy Aubrey at education@rowaytonarts.org or call 203-866-2744 (x-2).
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Community Sponsored Awards 2021 Opening
Sunday, June 27
This annual exhibition features over 60 pieces of artwork by RAC Exhibiting Members representing their best work of the year. The Chair for the exhibition is Heide Follin and the Co-chair is Yuko Ike.
A special thank you to companies and individuals in the area who contributed to the cash awards: Pat Atkin, The Bait Shop, Classic Prep, Darien Rowayton Bank, Fairfield County Bank, The Gatt Group, House of Needlepoint, Ana and Steve Mernick, Barbara Murphy, RBC Capital Markets, Rowayton Fuel, SAILS American Grill and William Raveis Real Estate Darien/Rowayton.
Winners for the following categories were announced buy the judge Jahmane West – Best in Show: Bruce Horan of Stamford for “Avenue” (Oils and Acrylics),1st Place: Erin Nazzaro of Redding for “A Timid Review” (Oils and Acrylics), 2nd Place: Wendy Moore of Pound Ridge for “The Future” (Oils and Acrylics), 3rd Place: Joel Flora of Rowayton for “The Hosta Hideout” (Oils and Acrylics), Honorable Mention: Kat Evans of Fairfield for “Afterglow III” (Oils and Acrylics), 1st Place: Amy Schott of Wilton for “Micro metropolis” (Watercolors, Prints, Pastels, Drawings and Mixed Media), 2nd Place: Gregg Welz of Norwalk for “Openings,” (Watercolors, Prints, Pastels, Drawings and Mixed Media), 3rd Place: Elena Abrahams of Old Greenwich for “Urban Sports,” (Watercolors, Prints, Pastels, Drawings and Mixed Media), Honorable Mention: Judy Orseck Katz of Westport for “Still Life” (Watercolors, Prints, Pastels, Drawings and Mixed Media), 1st Place: Richard Ventre of Norwalk for “Kat/Defiance 2” (Photography and Sculpture), 2nd Place: Barbara Murphy of Norwalk for “Follow to the Right” (Photography and Sculpture), 3rd Place: Barbara O’Shea of New Canaan for “Light from Above/St. Pauls” (Photography and Sculpture), Honorable Mention: Jay Wilson of Cos Cob for “Interstate 10, West Texas”(Photography and Sculpture).
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RAC Executive Director Andrea Letters (left) with show Co-chair Yuko Ike (center) and Chair Heide Follin (right)
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Best in Show winner Bruce Horan (left) with Judge artist Jahmane West
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RAC Exhibition Chairs Eunice Roy (left) and Kathleen Weinstock (right)
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Elena Abrahams receives her Honorable Mention ribbon from Yuko Ike
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3rd Place Acrylics and Oils: Joel Flora, “The Hosta Hideout” (at top)
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3rd Place Photography and Sculpture: Barbara O’Shea, “Light from Above/St. Pauls” (at top)
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1st Place Acrylics and Oils: Erin Nazzaro, “A Timid Review”
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Honorable Mention Acrylics and Oil: Kat Evans, “Afterglow III” (right)
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1st Place Watercolor, Pastels, Prints, Drawings & Mixed Media: Amy Schott, “Micro metropolis”
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2nd Place Watercolor, Pastels, Prints, Drawings & Mixed Media: Gregg Welz, “Openings”
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Winners in attendance with our Judge artist Jahmane West (left to right) Bruce Horan, Jahmane West, Erin Nazzaro, Gregg Welz, Amy Schott, Joel Flora, Elena Abrahams, Jay Wilson, Kat Evans, Barbara O’Shea and Richard Ventre.
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Remember you can browse exhibitions from the past year via RAC’s online gallery, link here.
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In the News…
The Best in Show award winner of RAC’s In the City show Mark Schiff was profiled in a Hearst Newspaper article “Retired Bridgeport Dentist Works to ‘Convey Feeling’ with Paintings that Won Rowayton Art Show” by Joel Lang. This front page feature appeared in the “Sunday Arts & Style” section of the Connecticut Post, The News-Times (Danbury), Greenwich Time, Stamford Advocate and Norwalk Hour.
Read the feature article at the link here!
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RAC will be closed on Sunday, July 4th – enjoy
the holiday weekend everyone!
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