Here’s a link to the page describing the Workshop and the Registration Form. Don’t hesitate!!!
Category Archives: Announcements
SAVE THE DATE! NFWS Spring 2024 Workshop with Richard Stephens will be May 13 – 17, 2024.
The Workshop “Lighten Up, Loosen Up” will be held May 13 – 17, 2023 at the Castiglia Center on the Historic Roycroft Campus. Registration Forms will be available here on our website on Monday, February 19th, and will be emailed to all NFWS Members on that date. 
The Award Winners have been posted on our website. Here’s a link to the page that you can find in the dropdown menu under “Exhibitions”
Submission Period has ended (8/20/23) for our NFWS Fall 2023 Members Watermedia Exhibition
Thank you to everyone who submitted! We have 100 submitted paintings from 54 NFWS Members. Our juror Stanley Kurth will be selecting a show of between 40 and 50 paintings. The Exhibition Committee will be sending out notifications between August 31 and September 3, 2023.Good luck to everyone!
NFWS Fall 2023 Members Watermedia Exhibition Submission Period begins July 1 and runs until Monday, August 14, 2023!
NFWS Fall 2023 Members Watermedia Exhibition
October 4 – November 8, 2023
Project 308 Gallery
308 Oliver Street
North Tonawanda, New York 14120
The submission period opens on July 1, 2023, and closes at midnight on Monday, August 14, 2023. Submissions for our Fall 2023 Members Watermedia Exhibition will be juried and judged by Stanley Kurth our NFWS Fall 2023 Workshop Artist. Entering Artists will be notified as to Stanley Kurth’s selections by September 3, 2023.
A link to The Prospectus will be posted on the Call for Work page on July 1, 2023. Submit your work there, on the Call for Work page, following the instructions in the Prospectus. The Prospectus and a link to the Call for Work page will be emailed to all NFWS Members on July 1, 2023!
The awards for our 2023 Open Watercolor Exhibition were announced last evening, May 25, at the Award Celebration at the Carnegie!
You can see them all and read Mary Whyte’s comments on our page Spring 2023 Award Winners . It was a lovely evening, reconnecting with many NFWS Members and friends. Congratulations one and all!
The Exhibition’s last day is today, May 26, 2023! Hope you can make it to the Carnegie Art Center, 240 Goundry Street, N. Tonawanda, NY, today, open from 12 – 4 today, Friday.
The Prospectus for our NFWS Spring 2023 Open Watercolor Exhibition is available here and on the Call for Work page! The Submission Period runs through February 26, 2023.
Click here for the Prospectus:
Spring 2023 Open Watercolor Exhibition Prospectus
Click here for the link to the Call for Work page.
This Exhibition will be on view from May 3 – 26, 2023 at the Carnegie Art Center, 240 Goundry St., North Tonawanda, New York.
The Exhibition Juror and Judge of Awards is renowned artist and cherished teacher Mary Whyte, our NFWS Spring Workshop Artist.
“In my studio I have a small plaque that reads, “The most beautiful things in life cannot be touched.” It was a gift from my friend Georgeanna, and a constant reminder of what it is we artists try to express. It is not the days we remember in our lives but the small moments.” Mary Whyte, An Artist’s Way of Seeing
Submission Period for our Fall 2022 Members’ Juried Watermedia Exhibition has been extended by 3 days thru August 11 at midnight. Submissions will be juried by Glenn E. Blue, our NFWS Fall 2022 Workshop Artist.
The Exhibition will be on view from October 2 – November 13, 2022, Kenan Center House Gallery, 433 Locust Street, Lockport, NY. It will also be VIRTUAL, and will be posted on our website!
Glenn Blue’s National Award Winner Tucquan Glen,”Winter’s Glow”
The Submission Period has been extended thru August 11 at midnight.
Go to our Call for Work page to access The Prospectus, and to submit your pantings. Call for Work page
Click here to find our about our Spring 2022 Watermedia Workshop, “Finding Your Own Voice” with Skip Lawrence. The Workshop is Full, but we have a waiting list.
Here is the link to the Registration Brochure for NFWS Five Day Spring 2022 Skip Lawrence Watermedia Workshop, “Finding Your Own Voice”
Skip Lawrence Workshop Registration Brochure
William Skip Lawrence: Expressive Artist
“I love everything about painting. I love feeling the paint, seeing a rich color spread under my brush onto a surface and the play between colors coming together. I love watching my idea take form until a painting finally says “it” and I am surprised and delighted every time. I love sharing my art and knowing that someone is moved by it.
I see no hierarchy among realism, abstraction, non-objective painting styles. I see only the relationship of colors, shapes, surface and line that either thrills or bores me. When these elements come together to communicate an artist’s intention to the viewer, to connect with someone, it is nothing short of wonderful.
Our NFWS President’s January 2022 Letter has been posted on the President’s Letter page under About Us/Contact Us in the Home Page Menu. Check it out!
Here’s the Link: President’s Letter January 2022.