The 18^th Annual Local Color Art Show and Sale promises to be an exceptional opportunity to view and purchase art created by members of the Working Artists Forum and artists from the Delmarva Peninsula. Presented by The Working Artists Forum, the show will be held Wednesday, July 20th through Sunday, July 24th in the Fellowship Hall of Christ Episcopal Church, 111 S. Harrison Street, Easton, in conjunction with The Plein Air Easton Art Festival. The Judge for Local Color this year is Tim Kelly, Plein Air Easton’s 2021 Grand Prize Winner. Local Color was juried this year by Mary Viega, the 2021 Plein Air Easton Second Place Award Winner.

The Opening Award Ceremony and Sip ‘n See will be open to the public at Noon July 20,2022. Tim Kelly will announce his award winners for the 2022 Local Color Show in the categories of: Best in Show, Award of Excellence (3), Honorable Mention (3) and describe why he chose the particular award winners. Light refreshments will be served at the ceremony including beer, wine, and sodas.

HOURS FOR ART SHOW & SALE:

• Wednesday July 20, 2022, 12 – 6pm
• Thursday July 21 – Saturday July 23 ,2022 10 – 6 pm
• Sunday July 24, 2022, 12 – 4 pm

The public is invited to the art show and FIVE FREE painting demonstrations.   Tim Kelly & Mary Veiga will offer the first two of the five free-to-the-public painting demonstrations. Demonstrations will also be presented by Jeff Williams, Daniel Robins and Charlie Hunter. All demos are sponsored by The Working Artists Forum.

The FREE demo schedule is:

Tim Kelly – 2021 Grand Prize Award – Wed. 1:30-3:30 at Waterfowl Building

Mary Viega – 2021 2nd Place Award – Wed. 3:45-5:45 at Waterfowl Building

Jeff Williams – PAE 2021 3rd Place Award – Thurs. 1:00 – 3:00 at Christ Church

Daniel Robbins – Artists Choice & Best Use of Light, Thurs. 3:30-5:30, Christ Church

Charlie Hunter – PAE 2019 Best Architect Award – Friday 1:00-3:00, Christ Church

The Local Color demos at Christ Episcopal Church and the Waterfowl Building are both located across the street from The Art Academy Museum

Proceeds from Local Color help to fund The Working Artists Forum’s educational program for art classes in local public schools. The WAF is an organization of painters working in one or more mediums. Professional expertise of its membership is fostered through programs, group critiques, demonstrations, workshops, and member exhibitions. Pro bono work for the community is encouraged. To learn more about The Working Artists Forum check out their website: https://www.workingartistsforum.com.  For more information about the Local Color Exhibit and Sale, contact Carol McClees at [email protected]. For information on the Local Color Demos, contact Doris Glovier at [email protected]. Information is also available on the Plein Air Easton website calendar at https://pleinaireaston.com/calendar.

During the past eight months, working through the challenges of Covid, members of the Working Artists Forum (WAF) volunteered to deliver Dick Blick gift cards to area schools in support of the schools’ art department programs.  Dick Blick is a well known art supply company with a wide variety of choices available for the schools’ art departments, and the teachers are pleased to receive the additional funds.

Each year WAF sponsors the art show “Local Color,” which is held under the auspices of the annual Plein Air Easton (PAE) Competition and Arts Festival.   The sale of paintings by the artists juried into this show provides the funding for WAF to offer these gift cards to the schools each year.

Recently the last gift cards were delivered from the Local Color 2021 sales when WAF member Carol Frost presented them to Sudlersville, Church Hill and Kennard Elementary Schools.  At Kennard Elementary School in  Centreville, Carol was able to meet with the Principal and Art Teacher, Ms. Jenson and present the gift card to her personally.  This brought the final total of 33 gift cards to include 5 schools in Caroline County, 7 in Dorchester County, 3 in Kent County, 5 in Talbot County, 8 in Queen Anne’s County, and 5 in Worcester County.

WAF is grateful to be able to provide these cards, and is hoping for brisk sales this year so that they can continue this tradition.  This year’s 2022 Local Color show, which is held at Christ Church in downtown Easton, will be held Wednesday, July 20 through Sunday, July 24.  For more information on WAF, their activities and artists, and  information on Local Color, visit WorkingArtistsForum.com.

The Working Artists Forum, based in Easton, is pleased to announce its exhibit from May 11 through June 26th in the Willow & Garden Galleries at Quiet Waters Park, 600 Quiet Waters Park, Annapolis.  The reception will be held on Sunday, May 15th from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m and the public is invited.

What sparks the spirit and awakens the soul to create art? The spark can be the simplest scene or object.  Discover sparks while you enjoy the Quiet Waters Park show in the Willow and Garden galleries — paintings by WAF artists predominantly from the Eastern Shore.  When that spark sets off something in the inner spirit, an image does not come from a scene or object, but comes from the artist’s soul.

WAF members are philanthropic artists working in all fine art mediums from watercolor, acrylic, and oil paintings to printmaking and mixed media, who create daily because the world they experience stirs the soul.

WAF gathers for group critiques, demonstrations and technical discussions monthly at the Academy Art Museum in Easton. However, an important goal is their pro bono work in the community, including yearly donations to art classes in area schools for materials to help enable students to create their own art.

For more information on this exhibit and WAF, visit  workingartistsforum.com.

For direction visit the website for Quiet Waters Park is https://www.aacounty.org/departments/recreation-parks/parks/quiet-waters/

Working Artists Forum (WAF)  appreciates the opportunity to support the arts in local schools. Their efforts include providing funding to the schools’ art departments. This support is funded through the purchase of paintings at the annual Local Color art show held during Plein Air Easton.  Providing funding to these schools for their art supplies encourages the artistic endeavors of their students.

Most recently were presentations to area schools by Betty Huang, President of WAF,  and WAF member Carol Frost, as part of the WAF gift card program that includes 5 schools in Caroline County, 7 in Dorchester County, 3 in Kent County, 5 in Talbot County, 8 in Queen Anne’s County and 5 in Worcester County.

Betty Huang presented Dick Blick Gift Cards to Mr. Angeloni, Principal and Mr. Lambert, Art Teacher, of Preston Elementary School; and also to Mr. Lambert as the Art Teacher at Federalsburg Elementary.

Carol Frost presented gift cards to Sudlersville, Church Hill and Kennard Elementary Schools.  At Kennard Elementary School in  Centreville, Carol was able to meet with the Principal and Art Teacher, Ms. Jenson to personally give them the gift card.

All of the schools were very pleased to receive the gift cards, and WAF has been fortunate and grateful to be able to continue this annual tradition.  Dick Blick is a well known art supply company with a wide variety of choices available for the schools’ art departments.

As this support is funded through the purchase of paintings at the annual Local Color art show, which is held under the auspices of the annual Plein Air Easton (PAE) Competition and Arts Festival, WAF is hoping for brisk sales this year.  The 2022 Local Color show, which is held at Christ Church in downtown Easton, is from Wednesday, July 20 through Sunday, July 24.  For more information on WAF and their activities and artists, and more information on Local Color, visit WorkingArtistsForum.com.

Working Artists Forum (WAF), under the auspices of the annual Plein Air Easton (PAE) Competition and Arts Festival, sponsors the art exhibit Local Color during Plein Air Easton.  The artists to participate are juried into this prestigious show by the second-place winner of the prior year’s Plein Air Easton.  This year’s juror was Mary Veiga, an award-winning, acclaimed artist and second-place winner of Plein Air Easton 2021. WAF wishes to thank Mary Veiga for her time and selections.

Mary’s recent jurying has resulted in the following 42 artists being invited to participate in Local Color 2022:   Sandra Alanko,  Carol Cowie, Polly Cox, Joan Cranor, Nancy Lee Davis, Mary Ford,  Nancy Galvin,  Jill Glassman,  Doris Glovier,  Shirley Hales,  Patti Lucas Hopkins, Betty Huang, Carla Huber, Jane Knighton, Kathleen Kopec, Marianne Kost, Pat Lang, Mary Ellen Mabe, Carol McClees, Carol Meers, Diane DuBois Mullaly, Abigail Ober, Kathleen Quinn, Jose Ramirez, Christine Rapa, Jim Rehak, Anne Reder, Kathie Rogers, Maggii Sarfaty, Stacey Sass, Ann Schaefer, Anne Singer, Sarah Stolte, Scott Sullivan, Nancy R. Thomas, Georgette Toews, Walter S. Urbanek, Stephen Walker, Barbara Harr Watson, Maureen Wheatley, Lori Yates, Barbara Zuehlke.

WAF congratulates all of these accomplished artists and looks forward to having them in the show.

The Local Color Show dates are July 20 – 24, 2022 when these participating artists from the Delmarva Peninsula and WAF members juried into the show will be offering their original two-dimensional art for sale.

The show, which is held at Christ Church, 111 S. Harrison St., Easton, will be judged on July 20th by Tim Kelly, Grand Prize Winner of 2021 Plein Air Easton, and awards will be presented.  The Opening Ceremony, Awards Presentation and Reception will be from Noon to 1:00 pm.  The doors open at Noon and the public is invited to attend.

For more information on Local Color and the Working Artists Forum, visit www.WorkingArtistsForum.com; and for PAE Information, visit www. pleinaireaston.com.

The Working Artists Forum, WAF, an organization of professional artists based in Easton with a wide membership from across the state, has been invited to showcase their art at the Columbia Art Center.  Thirty-six of its members will be exhibiting their art at the Columbia Art Center in Columbia, Howard County, MD from May 6 to May 29, 2022.    The Columbia Art Center offers a prestigious exhibit venue with two galleries to display and sell the art of the participating WAF members.

The Working Artists Group exhibit, entitled “Space…Shapes…Scapes,” offers the WAF artists the opportunity to interpret this theme in their own individual style in diverse disciplines.

WAF, well known in Talbot County MD,  particularly for their sponsored art show “Local Color” during Plein Air Easton, has been active in expanding their exhibit opportunities and broadening the recognition of this unique group of professional artists and their art to the public in surrounding Maryland counties.

The Judge for this show is Jane McElvany Coonce.  Jane, who has been in the art field for over 40 years, works in watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel and in terra cotta.  Her works are held by private and corporate collectors, and she has won numerous awards nationally for her paintings and sculptures.  Her work is represented by the Gallery Underground in Arlington, Virginia, and Gallery Clarendon in Arlington, Virginia.

An Exhibition Opening and Awards Ceremony will be held at the Art Center on Friday, May 6, from 6-7:30 pm, and the public is invited.  The public can also visit this exhibit during all open hours. Those hours are Monday and Wednesday 10a.m. to 2p.m. and 4:30pm to 7:30 p.m.; and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10a.m. to 2p.m.  The Art Center is located in the Long Reach Village Center at 6100 Foreland Garth in Columbia. The phone number for the Columbia Art Center is 410-730-0075.  For more information on WAF and this exhibit visit www.WorkingArtistsForum.com.

Artists, don’t miss this unique opportunity to register for the juried annual Local Color art show!

Working Artists Forum (WAF) sponsors the juried and judged art exhibit “Local Color” under the auspices of the annual Plein Air Easton (PAE) Competition and Arts Festival. This very well attended show is held at Christ Church, Easton, MD during Plein Air Easton.

The Local Color Show dates are July 20 – 24, 2022, offering original two-dimensional art for sale by artists of the Delmarva Peninsula (MD, DE, VA) and WAF members who have been juried into the show.

For HOW TO ENTER, WHO CAN ENTER, WHAT TO ENTER, AND WHEN TO ENTER visit www.WorkingArtistsForum.com by March 17, 2022. The Local Color Prospectus can be found on the Working Artist Forum website.  ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION will be by email no later than March 28, 2022.  AWARDS will be given.

QUESTIONS?  Contact the Local Color Chairperson, Carol McClees via email at [email protected], or call 443-994-5996.  For more information about this show visit www.workingartistsforum.com/local-color/ and for PAE Information visit www.pleinaireaston.com