This week at The Renaissance Art Gallery

Monday morning is Painting Class 10 – 12, with Fern Christian. This is an all media class, but emphasis is on water media. New students are welcome.

Wednesday studio hours are on. Hopefully all students enjoyed a short break and are ready to draw their hearts out.

Fine artworks for the 2nd Fine Art Photography show should be hung. Judging will be Friday July 2.

Ron Haeberle will be sitting the gallery on Friday, while Linda Helgason will hold how the fort on Saturday.

The Renaissance Art Gallery will be closed on Sunday, July 4th for the holiday.

New Week, New activities

This has been a busy week for us at the Renaissance Gallery. Starting Friday, we have been accepting photography work from area artists for the 2nd Annual Fine Art Exhibition. If that was not enough one of our members, Gary Taylor was asked to serve on the jury for the Juneteenth celebration this weekend in Huntington, WV.

Juneteenth is the oldest known national celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. It is a chance for many to maintain their connection to their history, to understand more than the simple facts of it. It helps people understand the personal side to what they read in history books

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/life/x1666008339/Singer-Quan-Howell-to-highlight-Juneteenth-Celebration

Gary was excited to participate in this, and to connect with any young area artists. Gary was scheduled to sit the gallery on Saturday, but Linda Helgason offered to handle this, and log-in artwork. She was also on hand to interact with people visiting the current show “Barely There”. People always enjoy talking to the actual artist when they come to view any show.

While everyone is working hard to get ready for the Photography show, artist Susan Tschantz is off on a “painting” vacation in Boone, NC. As some of you will recognize, Boone is the home of Cheap Joe’s art supply. Susan is spending a week working with oils and its related mediums. She writes about it on her blog, Starrpoint:

http://starrpoint.blogspot.com/

Because of Susan’s desertion, there will be no studio hours on Wednesday. Fern Christian, is however, still in town and still holding her painting classes on Monday and Saturday. Mike Adkins will be in on Tuesday to work with his Photography students, and is planning to hold a workshop June 26 on Hot shoe lighting for digital photography. Interested people should contact Mike as soon as possible.

Lillianne Bowersock is retired, now she will find out how really busy she and hubby, Bruce can be! While Bruce’s figure drawing class is not on hiatus, those who enjoy this experience should make sure they are on the contact list for the resumption of classes in September.

All should be back to order Next week.

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.

Artist Co-op Gallery

The Renaissance Gallery offers a venue for working regional artists to show develop as working artists by interacting with their peers and the community at large.
The gallery differs from the Huntington museum of art in its focus on regional living artists. While the museum is supportive of regional artists and offers educational opportunities to the community, its focus is largely archival. Maintaining a growing collection of important art, and brings national shows to the area. The Renaissance Gallery can focus its efforts on developing the local artistic community, offering a physical place to display work not just of its members, but also of other local artists. Giving them the opportunities needed to grow their talent.
We want to offer an active studio experience. The museum does offer studio space, it is as a landlord, an authority figure, at one step removed. Individual artists are like the orphan Oliver "please sir, can I have more!"
The Renaissance gallery is more artist-directed. Offering an on-going experience, that tri-state does not offer. Here, the artists must be interactive with each other and the community at large. We can offer smaller, more mentor driven classes.
With solid funding we can offer more opportunities for regional artists to stretch themselves and expand their working knowledge of art and media. It is the perfect setting for the self-taught and folk artists to get hand-on experience.
As the name implies, the Renaissance Gallery can be a cultural revival, home to a period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity, a regional Renaissance.

Nude Sketches at "Barely There"

Barely There

A Sketchbook show

Rapid, fluid wash drawings cover the walls of The Renaissance Art Gallery. This month’s show, “Barely There” features large energetic works by artist Linda Helgason. Linda is known for her expressive nudes and this show is no exception. Her unique use of charcoal and watercolor washes makes for engaging works of fine line and texture.

Rather than a few static framed portraits, this show has all the life and vitality of a life drawing class. You can almost see the rapid strokes, and shifting model and hear the turning pages as you look at excerpts from Linda’s figure drawing sketchbooks.

The Renaissance Art Gallery will host “Barely There” until June 30th.

Dear Fellow Photograher

While we all like to work in our field, sometimes we get the feeling that the art has gone out of our photography. We get creative cramps or simply dry spells. Then, there is the question of where to show and when. Well, we sometimes feel this way too.

The Renaissance Art Gallery announces its 2nd Annual Fine Art Photography show scheduled for July 2010. This is an open entry show, meaning it is open to all photographers 18 years of age and older. Photographers will be able to submit up to 3 photos to be displayed at The Renaissance Art Gallery for the month of July with the theme of “Color Complements”. Each photo should show the strong use of color.

Cash awards will be given to the best interpretation of color and color complements. (Complementary colors are colors opposite each other on the color wheel.) But it is how you use color as an element in the photo that will count.

Now, all work must start out as a photograph. But afterwords………. This is where we can all get creative! Lets get to work in that virtual dark room and show what we can do!

Entries can be brought into The Renaissance Art Gallery June 18, 19 & 20 during normal gallery hours, or shipped to:

The Renaissance Art Gallery
C/o Lillianne Bowersock
3743 River Park Road
Ona, WV 25545


Photos should be framed and ready to hang. Shipped entries should be postmarked by June 15th. For more information call or stop by The Renaissance Art Gallery. Or contact us by phone or e-mail.

Keep up with gallery news and updates on this show at: http://renaissancegalleryart.blogspot.com/ and at twitter: http://twitter.com/WVGallery or simply e-mail us at: gallerywv@yahoo.com

The Renaissance Art Gallery
900 8th Street, Suite #20
Huntington, WV 25701

Gallery (304) 525-3235
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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

Summer is fast approaching

Summer is fast approaching The Renaissance Gallery. And with it will come the heat.

Deep in the heart of winter we all longed for the heat of summer! But when it gets here, we long for something else...

But summer also brings out the artist in us. And the summer art shows and festivals.

June will be an especially busy month for all the artists of the Renaissance. Our second session of digital photography will be starting Tuesday, June 1, 2010, and our first workshop in Digital photography.

But our regular classes are still running, Monday and Saturday painting classes, Wednesday drawing for both Juniors and Adults, and Saturday Afternoon figure drawing classes.

Linda Helgasson will have a one-woman show in the Kumkum Majumdar Exhibition Hall, "Barely There," with an opening reception Sunday, June 6th, 2-4 pm.

And don't forget, our 2nd Annual Fine Art Photography show will be opening in July, with submission dates, June 16,