Newsletter – November 2025

FREE Art Demonstration

Sunday, November 16 at 1 pm

On Sunday, November 16, you’re invited to attend a free art demonstration with RAC Instructor Anda Styler from 1-3pm to see how to use acrylics so they look and feel like oils. Learn how to eliminate flatness, enrich your colors, and create vibrant, harmonious mixtures with depth and luminosity. Discover the best surfaces, brushes, and mediums to make your acrylics more workable just like oil paints.

Registration is required – sign up here.

RAC Happenings

Autumn Juried Show Opening

Sunday, October 12

The Autumn Juried Show is on view now until November 8 only! Thanks to the crowd of sturdy souls who joined us at the opening reception on a stormy Sunday afternoon. This open theme all media exhibition features artwork by area artists chosen from over 500 online submissions. Visit Tuesday through Friday from 12-5 pm and Saturday from 10am-1pm. More info and list of award recipients at the link here!

1st Place: Anne Finkelstein “Lincoln Center (Ambigram 2)” (Acrylic on Aluminum)

3rd Place: Rosalind Shaffer “Tidal Pool” (Ceramics)

Nancy Breakstone collecting her Honorable Mention ribbon from juror Ellen Hawley with RAC Executive Director Andrea Letters at left

Honorable Mention: Nancy Breakstone “Then, Out of the Fog” (Photography)

Honorable Mention: Clarice Shirvell “The Chess Player” (Acrylic on Linen) – she also has a second painting in the show, “Still Life with Lanterns.”

RAC Education Director Suzy Aubrey (left) with RAC Board Member/Instructor Lori Lohstoeter, who just presented a free Art Demo “The Art of Cold Wax!”

RAC Board/Exhibiting Member Pamela Proctor with her mixed media piece “Portal” (at right)

RAC Marketing Director Jane Seymour (left) with RAC Board Vice President Lulu McPhee

Juror Ellen Hawley (right) with RAC Board President Jay Wilson

Honorable Mention: Susan Hacker Stang “Legs, Cape Cod” (Photography)

Winners at the opening (left to right): Nancy Breakstone, Clarice Shirvell, Susan Hacker Stang, Rosalind Shaffer and Anne Finkelstein with Juror Ellen Hawley

RAC Classes and Workshops

The November/December Session of Weekly Classes begins this week

There’s still time to register for our late fall session! Classes begin Monday and include a wide range of mediums — something for everyone. This short session is a perfect chance to try something new.



Adult Weekly Classes

Adult Short Term Workshops

Youth and Teen Classes

Artwork above by Instructor Nina Suggs who will be teaching “Beginner Watercolor” on Mondays 6-8:30pm. 

Current Exhibition

Now through November 8, 2025 ONLY!!!

Open Juried Show, open to all artists

All media – list of accepted artists and more info here.

Pick Up: Monday, November 10 (5-7pm) and Tuesday, November 11 (12-2pm)

Upcoming Exhibitions

December 5 through December 24, 2025

RAC is seeking original, handcrafted works for our annual Holiday Gift Show. We are accepting small ornaments and holiday-related gifts as well as jewelry, pottery and ceramics, candles, wooden toys and other objects, knitted/crocheted items, fiber art, plus original cards and small prints/paintings.

ALL vendors (members and non-members) must submit a Vendor Information form and HGS 2025 Inventory form.

Click here for prospectus, procedures and forms!

If you have not participated in our Holiday Gift Show before, you must email sample images with a description to executivedir@rowaytonarts.org.

Receiving dates:

Thursday, November 13 (10am-3pm), Saturday, November 15 (10am-3pm) Please sign up for a time slot online. Link is in the prospectus!

Entry Fee: 

For RAC Exhibiting Members: Entry fee is waived, membership dues must be current and a commission fee of 40% will be taken on your gross sales.

For RAC Non-Members: Entry fee of $30 and a commission fee of 40% will be taken on your gross sales.

Volunteer Hours: Participants are encouraged to volunteer for a two hour shift during the course of the gift show.

Opening day: Friday, December 5 (12pm-5pm)

Extended opening weekend hours: Saturday, December 6 (10am-7pm ~ During Light Up Rowayton) and Sunday, December 7 (12pm-5pm)

Regular hours: Tuesday through Friday (12pm-5pm), Saturday (10am-5pm) and Sunday (12pm-5pm). Closed Mondays. Open Christmas Eve December 24 (10am-2pm)

In Memoriam

Brian Kammerer

We have learned that Brian Kammerer passed away October 1 after a lengthy illness. After retiring from advertising, he brought his talents to Rowayton and was a long-time member of RAC. Brian became involved in Historic Rowayton and was the creator of the popular miniature winter holiday train show with full representational artistic rendering of the buildings and landscape. For the past five years, Brian was a popular market manager of the Rowayton Farmers Market – he loved working with the vendors and the great community of Rowayton. Here he is pictured at RAC (right) with Senator Bob Duff, a special guest judge for the Expressions exhibition in 2016, after winning the Senator’s Selection Award for his painting, “Hamlet,” a depiction of Shakespeare on the Sound in Pinkney Park.

Happy Thanksgiving to ALL!