Online submissions are now being accepted in an open call to artists for the “Focus Under Forty” at the Rowayton Arts Center (RAC) from June 14, 2020 to July 5, 2020. The show is open to all artists between the ages of 16 and 39 years old interested in exhibiting their artwork. Categories include oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolor, mixed media, color photography, black and white photography, sculpture, printmaking, pastels or drawing.
“Focus Under Forty” is currently planned as an online show. If RAC is allowed to reopen by June 1, the staff will make every attempt to hold this exhibition in the gallery. Submit pieces for consideration at https://rowaytonarts.org/entries. Deadline is May 22, 2020 and accepted artists will be notified by May 29, 2020.
Visit the RAC website rowaytonarts.org for the prospectus and other information. Co-Chairs for the show are Peter Ostasewicz and Lucy Armstrong. The judge for the exhibition is Terri C. Smith, who has curated more than 80 contemporary art exhibitions. She has received three, multi-year grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, among other awards. After 13 years as a contemporary art curator at Cheekwood Museum in Nashville, TN, Smith earned her MA from Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies (2008). Since moving to Connecticut in 2009, she curated shows at the Westport Arts Center and the Housatonic Museum before becoming founding Creative Director at Franklin Street Works, an award-winning, not-for-profit contemporary space in Stamford, CT, where she has curated or co-curated 18 original shows, worked with 22 guest curators and exhibited more than 350 internationally exhibiting artists.
RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. RAC celebrates the study, creation and appreciation of the arts through classes, exhibitions and events open to all in the community. For almost 60 years, this nonprofit organization has been a cultural gem in Rowayton, CT. The gallery and art school overlook the scenic Five Mile River at 145 Rowayton Avenue with space for regional artists to exhibit their art and a classroom for workshops and classes at all levels offered to children and adults. Visit rowaytonarts.org and follow @rowaytonarts.