Newsletter – October 2024

RAC Exhibiting Members Now Featured on Homepage

Have you noticed the artwork by RAC Exhibiting Members on our homepage that is refreshed every time you visit the RAC website? Click there to access a full listing of members and see images of their work. This is a free perk of membership so if you’re a member and would like to take advantage of this or need to change anything just fill out the form at rowaytonarts.org/artists

RAC Happenings

RAC Masters

Opening Reception

Friday, September 6

RAC Masters exhibition on view now until October 5!!! This exhibition is a member-only small group show where each participating artist presents a body of work. Thank you to writing specialist, curator and art critic Sarah Schmerler for serving as the RAC Masters show judge (see photo below). Link to the online gallery, more info about the judge and list of award recipients at link here! 

First Place: Robert Lansden with his pen and ink drawings

Hanging outside on a late summer’s evening.

Robert Lansden (left) accepts his prize from RAC Executive Director Andrea Letters (right) and RAC Board Member Pamela Proctor (middle)

Second Place: Judith Orseck Katz with her sculpture and gouache and ink painting

Third Place: Pamela Tucker with her oil paintings

RAC Masters in the gallery with judge Sarah Schmerler (left to right) Judith Orseck Katz, Pamela Tucker, Sarah Schmerler, Karen Maloof, Ronnie Gold, Lilly Langotsky, Robert Lansden, Christy Gallagher, Hanneke Goedkoop, Katharine Draper and Michael Brennecke.

RAC Classes and Workshops

The November/December Session is Open for Registration

Classes available in the studio and online in a variety of mediums and for all experience levels.  

Image by Anda Styler who will be teaching “Painting from Light and Value” on Tuesday mornings.

Click here for full listing of weekly classes

We also have a variety of Short Term Workshops available. Best of all – RAC supplies all the art materials!

Artwork by Leslie Giuliani who will be teaching “Encaustic Collage” this Saturday, October 5. 

• “Encaustic Collage” with Leslie Giuliani on Saturday, October 5 (1-5pm)
• “Gelli Plate Printmaking” with Lori Lohstoeter on Wednesday, October 9 (6:30-9pm)
• “Wet Cyanotype Exploration” with Susanne Brandt on Saturday, October 19 (10am-1:30pm)
• “Paint Along” with Lenny Moskowitz on Saturday, October 26 (10:30am-3:30pm)
• “Gelli Plate Printmaking” with Lori Lohstoeter on Wednesday, November 6 (6:30-9pm)
• “Holiday Card Mixed Media Workshop” with Nancy McTague-Stock on Saturday, November 16 (10:30am-12:30pm)

Click here for more info or to register!

Online Photography classes with Thom Williams

Classes in Intermediate and Advanced Photography (Photo here by Thom Williams)

Click here for online Photography class listing

And don’t forget we have classes for teens and children…

• Registration is open for the Fall 2 session of “Felicia Feldman’s “Advanced Drawing and Painting Skills” class for ages 10-14 (image here).  The new class begins Friday, November 1. 
• “Creations for ages 7-10” with Lisa Thoren will begin in November.  

Click here for list of youth and teen classes

Current Exhibition

Now through October 5, 2024

Exhibiting Member-Only Small Group Show

Visit the gallery Tuesday through Friday 12-5pm or Saturday from 10am-1pm. Link to online gallery, award recipients and more info here.

Upcoming Exhibitions

October 15 through November 9, 2024*

Open Juried Show, open to all artists

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

Receiving: Monday, October 7 (5-7pm) and Tuesday, October 8 (12-2pm)

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 20 (4-6pm) *Please note date changes!

The Rowayton Arts Center (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 2024 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:

Friday, November 15 (10am-1pm) and Saturday, November 16 (10am-1pm)

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.

Member Spotlight

The RAC 5 – Judy Katz

Judy has been a RAC Exhibiting Member for 20 years and a RAC Board Member for ten years. She went to the Music and Art High School in New York City and graduated with the award in Advertising. Judy went on to Syracuse University School of Fine Arts with an Art Scholarship. In her career as a graphic designer, Judy worked as an Art Director and Advertising manager for women’s specialty stores creating their visual personalities. She then had her own business designing logos, shopping bags, windows and interiors. She has also written and illustrated four books. Judy has lived in Westport for 25 years.

What medium do you work in and why?

Water and clay, because they are fluid.

Who are a few of your favorite artists?

Georgia O’Keefe, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Katsushika Hokusai and Vincent Van Gogh

Describe your artwork in 5 words.

Instant, simple, fluid, accidents, white-space

What is your favorite tool you use to create?

My Twig!

What is the most challenging part of your creative process?

When an accident happens, I have to make it work and know when to stop. 

Find out more about Judy on Instagram @judithorseckkatz

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