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.


Thursday, April 19, 2012

Free Caricatures at the Renaissance Art Gallery Sundays in April

The first Huntington Art walk is tonight, in what we all hope will become a monthly event for summers in Huntington, WV. The Renaissance Gallery will be apart of this tonight. Ron Haeberle and Gary Lapelle will keep the Renaissance Art Gallery open until 9:00 pm with refreshments and other art events. Come on in tonight and enjoy the growing art scene in Huntington, WV.

Friday Gary Lapelle will be hosting the regular gallery hours of the Renaissance Art Gallery and Laura Moul will open the Gallery on Saturday. If you have any questions about digital photography, Laura is your gal.

Then Bruce will be in for the first figure drawing class of the spring session.Starting this Saturday April 21 until the end of May he will also be leading the spring session of figure drawing at The Renaissance Art Gallery Saturday s from 4-6 pm. There are still two openings in this limited class. For more information call The Renaissance Art Gallery or Bruce and Lilliannne Bowersock at: 304-633-6035 cell


Renaissance Art Gallery artist Bruce Bowersock will be doing free caricatures while he hosts The Renaissance Art Gallery on two consecutive Sunday s. Bruce will be in the gallery Sunday April 22, and April 29, 2012 from 1-4 pm with all his art supplies. He will be doing caricatures of anyone and everyone who visits on these two days. If people really like to see someone with his drawing skills and get a gift just for visiting us to see all the new art we are showing, then the next two Sundays will be their time.


The Renaissance Art Gallery

900 8th Street, Suite #20

Huntington, WV 25701

Gallery (304) 525-3235

Appointments: (304) 453-3187

gallerywv@yahoo.com

www.orgsites.com/wv/renaissance

http://twitter.com/wvgallery

http://renaissancegalleryart.blogspot.com/



Gallery hours are:



Friday & Saturday 12-4 pm, Sunday 1-4 pm

Studio hours Monday 10-Noon, Wednesday 1:00-7:30 pm and Saturday 10-Noon

Monday, April 16, 2012

Cardinal Valley Show

Several member artists of the Renaissance Gallery entered the recent Cardinal Vallery Art Show.


L. Harbison with Climbing Iguana
Linda Harbison got best of show in Ashland at the Cardinal Valley Show for her sculpture “Climbing Iguana”.



Fern Christian received a Merit Award for Fragments in Moonlight "




F. Christian-Fragments in moonlight

Ron Haeberle has two pieces in this show; "Morning Surf XVI " and " Blue Teapot and Daffodil” "Splashing Brook" and "Wow" are the two pieces by Pati Payne.



Linda Helgason entered on piece; “Brent's Back # 2 ".



In addition to her award winning sculpture, Linda Harbison also has another piece in "Centenarian Carousel ".


Cardinal Valley Art Show presented by Arts Boyd County and the Arts Council of Northeastern Kentucky. Hosted by the Pendleton Arts Center in Ashland. "Celebrating ART in the Kentucky Highlands" April 5-28, 2012

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The Renaissance Art Gallery’s Hosts for the Week of April 13, 14, and 15

Friday April 13, 2012: Pati Payne: Pati is from Ironton Ohio, and is known as a painter of memories. She likes to paint the people, places and things she wants to remember. Pati’s media is watercolors and she will be painting and demonstrating watercolors this week in The Renaissance Art Gallery.



Saturday April 14, 2012 Linda Harbison: Linda is accomplished in both watercolor and stone sculpture. She will have the piece she is working on Saturday. Come in and see how a sculpture takes shape.



Sunday April 15, 2012: All Renaissance artists will be at the gallery. Good days to see what is knew and talk to the artists.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

the Renaissance Art Gallery; April 6, 7 and 8, 2012

The first full weekend in April will see Ron Haeberle in The Renaissance Art Gallery. Friday April 6, 2012 the gallery will open at 12:00 and be open until 4:00. Ron is known both for watercolors and his amazing rendering of historic Huntington Buildings.



Saturday April 7, 2012Susan Tschantz will be giving a demonstration on the use of colored pencils. She will be showing how to sketch, left and work with various forms and brands of colored pencils. Included will be Co-erase (erasable colored pencils) water-soluble pencils and Inktense pencils. She will also show you how to use blending tools and solvents with this medium as well as discussing which papers work best with colored pencils.



Sunday April 8, 2012 The Renaissance Art Gallery will be closed for Easter.

Friday, March 30, 2012

This Week at The Renaissance Art Gallery

March 30, 31 and April 1, 2012



Friday Pati Payne, watercolorist and painter of memories will be in from 12-4 pm.







Saturday Fern Christian will keep the gallery open after her morning painting class until 4 pm.



And Linda Helgason will again host the gallery on Sunday April 1, 2012. And open the gallery at 1 pm. She will be there until 4 pm. All are accomplished artists.



The Renaissance Art Gallery

900 8th Street, Suite #20

Huntington, WV 25701



Gallery (304) 525-3235

Appointments: (304) 453-3187

gallerywv@yahoo.com

www.orgsites.com/wv/renaissance



http://twitter.com/wvgallery

http://renaissancegalleryart.blogspot.com/



Gallery hours are:



Friday & Saturday 12-4 pm, Sunday 1-4 pm

Studio hours Monday 10-Noon, Wednesday 1:00-7:30 pm and Saturday 10-Noon

Monday, March 26, 2012

Figure Drawing Returning to The Renaissance Art Gallery

Abstract Nude
Bruce Bowersock




Bruce Bowersock will teach a 6-weekSpring figure drawing class at Renaissance Art Gallery in Historic Huntington High from April 21 through May 26, 2012. It will be held on Saturday afternoons from 4-6 p.m. in the Kumkum Majumdar Exhibition Hall.





Bruce doesn’t have any rules about how you interpret the subject...you may paint, use charcoal, pencil, watercolor, oil, acrylic any medium. Bruce is there to demo, instruct or just work with individuals who need help. It is a great class. If you have any questions, feel free to call at 304-633-6035.



Shooting Star
Laura Moul



 



In other news, Laura Moul had a framed metallic photograph accepted into the 2nd Annual Gallery 842 show in Huntington, which runs until the middle of April. She has also been invited to participate in the Tamarack Spring Wildflower show, with 5-framed metallic photographs. That show opens April 1st and runs until June.

 
 
 
 

Pati Payne just finished a painting entitled "The Swinging Bridge" based on a scene from a family reunion picnic in Morgantown, WV.

The Swinging Bridge
Pati Payne

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Artists at the Renaissance Art Gallery

March 23, 24, & 25 2012



Friday Gary Lapelle will host the Renaissance Art Gallery. Gary is known for his portraits of animals and his animal cartoons, if it has fur, he will paint it! Gallery will be open from 12-4 pm



Saturday Ron Haeberle will be in. He is known for his architectural watercolors of Huntington, WV. Ron will be in from 1-4 pm.


Sunday Linda Helgason will be in from 1-4 pm. Linda never saw a figure she did not like.