Mission Statement

Our Mission is to promote art and art education in the community and among its members. To encourage and promote a public interest and understanding of art; to create and develop a closer relationship between art and the community and further the education and artistic development of its members.


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Showing posts with label artwork. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2010

The Renaissance Art Gallery



The Renaissance Gallery is an artist’s run co-op gallery in Huntington, West Virginia dedicated to bringing the finest in local original art to the region. As a real brick and mortar gallery, we give local artists a place to display their work and local people a place to see the best the region has to offer. It is accessible to most people, being located on the ground floor of the former Huntington High School, fast becoming a regional center for the arts. We are an easy, comfortable place for people to show and see artworks in West Virginia and the Huntington area.

Membership in our gallery is open to adult artists. As a co-op each member shares in the running of the gallery, taking turns “sitting the gallery” and participating in all the duties and privileges of membership in this cooperative

The Gallery is open to artist and artistic expression, and we routinely display a wide range of art including: Landscape and still life, abstract, batik, photography, experimental art, sculpture, drawing, Miniature Fine Art, and we have commemorative pieces by the Art Resources For The Tri-State.

Our artists work in many mediums including oils, acrylic, fabric, both film and digital photography, computer assisted art, glass, figure paintings. The gallery is open to new and experimental work.

We have an ever-changing exhibition hall, and 3 open exhibitions each year in which artists from all over the region are invited to share their work with the public. These shows are themed and a qualified judge evaluates the work. Each of these events is opened with a public reception. This is an opportunity for both the community to see the best available and for new and established artists to get to know one another and meet the community. We also have hosted local art education shows featuring the work of area students, and plan to expand this in the future. Educators interested in organizing a show for their students are welcome to contact the gallery for more information.

The members of The Renaissance Art Gallery also offer art classes to both adults and students, with classes at different convenient times. We have classes for beginners, hobbyist and mature, established artists.

We are dedicated to bringing artists and the community together.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

New Year, New Art


The start of the new year is leaving everyone tired! After the miniature show, it seems it is hard to get going again.


January and February will be devoted to new artists and new works. The Exhibition hall will focus on the new members of the Gallery, and be supported by new works of the regular members, things we have not displayed before.


Ron Haeberle has a large amount of new watercolors, some urban, but most featuring the back woods around this part of West Virginia.




Tuesday, December 22, 2009

No junior classes


With the holidays crowding everyones calendars, there are no Wednesday classes at the gallery this week. Not until Jan. 6th will the Wednesday classes resume.

January 9, 2010 brings back our figure drawing classes. Saturdays will be for drawing the human form. We will have a live model for life drawing and a lot of other artists to keep things lively.

come and join the class. This class is for adults.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Spring Theme

Spring may be when a young man’s fancy turns to, well, you know, but the artists of the Renaissance Gallery turns to thoughts of spring painting challenge. This year’s Spring Fine Arts Exhibition will be all about color, and how well you can use it in the composition and presentation of your art. "Color and its Complement", is the theme, challenge and title of this May’s show. The artist will take one color as the primary element of composition and work with its complement to bring forth his/her ideas.

Now the real work begins. First up is to get the prospectus out!

December 20, 2009.

Who we are


Welcome to the Renaissance Art Gallery
A Unique Artist-run Fine Arts Co-Operative Gallery and School.

Located in a former high school building, this is the only dedicated Fine Arts Gallery in Huntington, and is home to the most unique collection of original art in the area


The Renaissance Gallery offers regularly changing exhibits of members' work.


It frequently features exhibitions of guest artists


The Gallery regularly hosts public receptions, introducing new art and artists to a larger art-loving public.


Come in and see us today!

Saturday, December 19, 2009

December 19, 2009 a beginning

Welcome to the blog of the Renaissance Art Gallery in Huntington, WV. We are an artist co-op consisting of local artist who are showing original art, all local grown as an alternative to mass produced, generic art that has no relevance to the local culture.

We are located in down town Huntington, in the old high school building, corner of 8th street and 9th Avenue. This building has been repurposed to serve the needs of the community, rather than simply tearing it down.

Each year we have a number of open entry shows which bring rather unique artwork to the public notice.

We also have ongoing classes for both adults and kids.