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Evening Under the Trees
Celebrating 96 Years of our Members Exhibit Saturday, July 22 at 5pm
96th Annual Members Exhibition Private Preview | 5pm Cocktails, Hors D’oeuvres and Music | 5 - 6pm Live Award Selections & Juror Talk | 6 - 6:30pm Let's celebrate our creative community and reflect on our rich history. It all began back in 1927 with a small group of artists who came together one summer to exhibit their work. Now we are 450 members strong and growing, representing a diverse range of artistic expression.
We invite attendees to preview this year’s exhibit and gather in the garden to enjoy hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and live music. Celebrate fellow artists as our guest Juror of Awards, Ruth Clegg, announces the 10 award winners and shares insights on her selections. Tickets
$35 per person or help us celebrate 96 years with a $96 legacy ticket (five free raffle tickets included) Enter our Art Raffle for a chance to take home beautiful artworks generously donated by six of our talented members artists. See details below
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Have you bought your raffle tickets for our wonderful Art Raffle?
Art Raffle
We have six raffle items generously donated by our members. Click on the images to find more information.
Purchase 5 tickets for $30 or 10 for $50 by calling us at (401) 783-2195 or email us that you're interested at we'll be in touch. You don't have to be present at the event to win.
We have six raffle items generously donated by our members. Click on the images to find more information.
Purchase 5 tickets for $30 or 10 for $50 by calling us at (401) 783-2195 or email us that you're interested at we'll be in touch. You don't have to be present at the event to win.
96th Members Annual
Awards to be Presented
Ann Lewis Parker Award (best watercolor) $100
Lorenzo and Elizabeth Kinney Award (best floral any media) $100
Dorcas Toney Award (best functional pottery) $100
Visconti Sculpture Award (best sculpture) $100
Mary Ann Carney Award (pottery) $100
Best Abstract Award $100
Best Photograph $100
Best Oil/Acrylic $100
Best Drawing, Print or Pastel $100
Best Mixed Media, Collage or Assemblage $100
Three Honorable Mention Awards
Awards to be Presented
Ann Lewis Parker Award (best watercolor) $100
Lorenzo and Elizabeth Kinney Award (best floral any media) $100
Dorcas Toney Award (best functional pottery) $100
Visconti Sculpture Award (best sculpture) $100
Mary Ann Carney Award (pottery) $100
Best Abstract Award $100
Best Photograph $100
Best Oil/Acrylic $100
Best Drawing, Print or Pastel $100
Best Mixed Media, Collage or Assemblage $100
Three Honorable Mention Awards
Ruth Clegg, Juror of Awards
Ruth Clegg’s photographic works are dedicated to the exploration of layers of light, movement, and color. With an obsessive eye Clegg takes these basic elements to the exploration of water and the otherworldly experience of underwater pond life. Clegg places particular focus on the manner in which water reflects and fractures light through the lens, offering the viewer a peak into a little experienced microcosm under the surface.
Ruth Clegg has been part of the art world for many years. A 1977 graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a degree in Fine Arts, Ruth concentrated in the area of printmaking, primarily lithography and photography. For the past forty years Ruth has explored the portrait photography world and has maintained a studio, Angell Fine Arts, in East Greenwich. Through her work with the portrait studio Ruth has received numerous professional awards and degrees (Master of Photography, Photographic Craftsman) and has been published in five books representing the best of professional photography in the United States.
Ruth continues to explore not only photography but printmaking, drawing and painting. Currently working at Goddard Studio in Pawtucket Rhode Island, Ruth is exploring the process of polymer intaglio to create editions, mono prints, mono types and calligraphy. As an artist member of the Providence Art Club, Ruth has had numerous exhibitions over the past twenty-three years. Additional shows have been at Miss Porter’s School, Leadership Rhode Island Gallery, Pawtucket Arts Council, Green Airport, Portsmouth Arts Guild, Mystic Arts Center, Goddard-Partridge Studio and Save the Bay, and Wickford Art Association. Ruth is presented by The Charlestown Gallery, David-Max, AZ Fine Arts and Gallery Z.
A common theme that finds its way into Ruth’s work is the exploration of texture and patterns. Whether it is a photographic portrait, landscape, etching, collograph, monotype or painting there is an ongoing dialogue present in the layers of each medium. The advancement of computers has allowed Ruth to continue to explore the combination of mediums such as photography, drawing and painting into a single image.
Ruth had fifteen photographs and solar plate prints accepted in juried shows at Mystic Arts Center Warwick Museum of Art, South County Art Association and Portsmouth Arts Guild. Most recently Ruth received two honorable mentions for photographs, Just Below, Water Flora and one honorable mention for Towards the Light, a hand colored solar plate print. Water Flora also received second prize and best photograph in the Master Division of the 63rd Annual Central Adirondack Art Show.
In 2014 Ruth agreed to participate in the Joint Venture Portfolio, a group of 35 printmakers from the Providence Art Club and the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia. The outcome of the project has been five shows exhibiting artist’s current printmaking portfolios in both Virginia and Rhode Island. the shows have resulted in the sale of multiple portfolios and individual work to personal collectors, corporations and medical institutes.
Ruth is Past President of the professional Photographers’ Association of Rhode Island and the Professional Photographers’ Association of New England. Ruth is a member of the Professional Photographers Association of Rhode Island and New England, View, The Art League of Rhode Island, Rhode Island Design Museum Associates and the Providence Art Club.
Ruth Clegg’s photographic works are dedicated to the exploration of layers of light, movement, and color. With an obsessive eye Clegg takes these basic elements to the exploration of water and the otherworldly experience of underwater pond life. Clegg places particular focus on the manner in which water reflects and fractures light through the lens, offering the viewer a peak into a little experienced microcosm under the surface.
Ruth Clegg has been part of the art world for many years. A 1977 graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a degree in Fine Arts, Ruth concentrated in the area of printmaking, primarily lithography and photography. For the past forty years Ruth has explored the portrait photography world and has maintained a studio, Angell Fine Arts, in East Greenwich. Through her work with the portrait studio Ruth has received numerous professional awards and degrees (Master of Photography, Photographic Craftsman) and has been published in five books representing the best of professional photography in the United States.
Ruth continues to explore not only photography but printmaking, drawing and painting. Currently working at Goddard Studio in Pawtucket Rhode Island, Ruth is exploring the process of polymer intaglio to create editions, mono prints, mono types and calligraphy. As an artist member of the Providence Art Club, Ruth has had numerous exhibitions over the past twenty-three years. Additional shows have been at Miss Porter’s School, Leadership Rhode Island Gallery, Pawtucket Arts Council, Green Airport, Portsmouth Arts Guild, Mystic Arts Center, Goddard-Partridge Studio and Save the Bay, and Wickford Art Association. Ruth is presented by The Charlestown Gallery, David-Max, AZ Fine Arts and Gallery Z.
A common theme that finds its way into Ruth’s work is the exploration of texture and patterns. Whether it is a photographic portrait, landscape, etching, collograph, monotype or painting there is an ongoing dialogue present in the layers of each medium. The advancement of computers has allowed Ruth to continue to explore the combination of mediums such as photography, drawing and painting into a single image.
Ruth had fifteen photographs and solar plate prints accepted in juried shows at Mystic Arts Center Warwick Museum of Art, South County Art Association and Portsmouth Arts Guild. Most recently Ruth received two honorable mentions for photographs, Just Below, Water Flora and one honorable mention for Towards the Light, a hand colored solar plate print. Water Flora also received second prize and best photograph in the Master Division of the 63rd Annual Central Adirondack Art Show.
In 2014 Ruth agreed to participate in the Joint Venture Portfolio, a group of 35 printmakers from the Providence Art Club and the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia. The outcome of the project has been five shows exhibiting artist’s current printmaking portfolios in both Virginia and Rhode Island. the shows have resulted in the sale of multiple portfolios and individual work to personal collectors, corporations and medical institutes.
Ruth is Past President of the professional Photographers’ Association of Rhode Island and the Professional Photographers’ Association of New England. Ruth is a member of the Professional Photographers Association of Rhode Island and New England, View, The Art League of Rhode Island, Rhode Island Design Museum Associates and the Providence Art Club.
