Norfolk Artists & Friends News
Information about recent artist member's activities, including exhibitions, awards and publications
2012
Leslie Watkins will be presenting a series of watercolor workshops at Ward's Greenhouse in Great Barrington, February 25, March 10, and March 31. Click for PDF
Leslie Watkins will be teaching a class in watercolor in the Washington Art Association's winter semester, January 16 - March 5, 2012.
2011
Nov-Dec. 2011 Susan Dorazio, "Watercolors and Oil Paintings". Dorazio will be the featured guest artist at the Norfolk Artists Guild in Norfolk, CT. Opening reception to be announced.
Ronald Sloan's painting titled "The Magnet" has been chosen to be in an exhibit, starting September 18th, at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA. The show includes work of the past three centuries of self taught artists. "The Magnet" is part of the Barron and Ellen Gordon collection at the Old Dominion University Gallery.
Leslie Watkins will be teaching a class in watercolor in the Washington Art Association's fall semester, September 12 - October 31, 2011.
A workshop, The Prismatic Palette En Plein Air with Leslie Watkins will be held at the Lyme Art Association, August 20-21, 2011, 9am - 4pm.
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Susan Dorazio will be offering a painting workshop, July 23-24, 2011, Animal Painting & Drawing, sponsored by the Housatonic Valley Art League, at the Bushnell-Sage Library in Sheffield, MA
Ronald Sloan has had four of his artworks acquired by the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD for their permanent collection. Also, Ronald Sloan has been awarded a $100 prize in the Artwell Gallery juried show in Torrington, CT for his painting titled "Saving Hope". The opening is July 23 6-9 PM.
Susan Dorazio will be offering a painting workshop, Watercolor Technique and the Horse, July 11-15, 2011 at her studio in Colebrook, CT sponsored by the American Academy of Equine Art.
June - August, 2011 Leslie Watkins, "Watercolors and Oil Paintings" Watkins will be the featured guest artist at the newly reopened Norfolk Artists Guild in Norfolk, CT.
NWCT Arts Council's 2011 Open Your Eyes Studio Tour will be held Saturday June 25th, 10AM - 5PM and Sunday June 26th, 12 - 4PM. NA&F members who will open their studios to the public are Peter Coffeen, Susan Dorazio, Madeline Falk, Shirley Metcalf, Ruthann Olsson, Turi Rostad and Leslie Watkins.
Leslie Watkins will be offering three art workshops in Spring 2011, sponsored by the Housatonic Valley Art League, at the Bushnell-Sage Library in Sheffield, Massachusetts.
Chaiwalla Tea House in Salisbury, CT (860) 435-9758 will exhibit Leslie Watkins' watercolors throughout the month of April, 2011.
Kinuko Craft will be Artist Guest of Honor at Norwescon, a Science Fiction-Fantasy convention in Seatte, WA, April 21-24, 2011. She will give an hour long presentation on her work, participate in several discussion panels and display work in the convention art exhibit.
Mahlon Craft is exhibiting three photos in "Shooting with the Third Eye", an invitational photography exhibit at Artwell in Torrington, CT. March 12 to April 10, 2011 w
Kinuko Craft recently exhibited at the West Hartford Art League in January in a group show with several other artists in an invitational exhibit entitled "The Art of Illustration."
2010
Ronald Sloan has been awarded the Torrington Savings Bank Gavel Award of $150 for his painting "Homage to Ben" (which is for Ben Shahn), in the Artwell Gallery Annual juried show. It opens Saturday, July 24th, 6-9PM.
Bruce Hanke's portrait of his son has won inclusion in the 2010 BP Portrait Award at The National Portrait Gallery in London. The exhibit runs from June 24 to September 19, 2010. Works have also been published on The National Portrait Gallery’s website, BP Portrait Awards 2010 Catalogue, and in Direct Art Magazine and The Artist’s Magazine.
The reopening of the Richard Byrd Library in Springfield , VA July 22, 2010 features a weathervane made by John Garret Thew. The vane he created for the library is a scaled down Ford Tri-motor, the plane Byrd flew over the SouthPole Novermer 28, 1929 The program published for the Grand Reopening contains a photo of Thew building the weathervane.
Leslie Watkins recently designed a tromp l'oeil mosaic mural for Norfolk residence, "Blueberry Hill". It depicts a basket of flowers and vegetables on a window sill, with a view of Haystack Mountain in the distance.
Turi Rostad is working on a wall mural project at the Botelle School. It depicts local flora and fauna, and will be completed this fall.The mural is a gift from the graduating class of 2010 to the school.
Katherine Griswold's photographs have been published in a book, called "Seasons of Connecticut", by Diane Smith and published by Globe Pequot Press. The photographs were taken in and around Norfolk, and are available on her website. The book is available from amazon.com or your local bookstore.