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June Show Your Art Show, Thursday, June 15th, 6 – 9 pm, Amherst Community Church.
With Comments by Rita Argen Auerbach and Sally Treanor. Check for details on our Calendar.
RiTA ARGEN AUERBACH is an internationally recognized award winning artist whose work is represented in numerous museum, private, and corporate collections in this country and abroad. A Legacy of her art career is on view June 9 – October 1, 2023 at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo NY.
Rita is a long time art educator. She taught art in the Clarence Central Schools for 20 years, chair of art department and received Outstanding teacher from the New York State Art Teachers Association. After retirement Rita served 20 more years on the faculty of Chautauqua Institution Special Studies teaching Watercolor painting. She also conducted workshops in Costa Rica, Italy, Spain and France. Transparent watercolor has always been her choice of medium. 
SALLY TREANOR works in transparent watercolor specializing in small format landscapes, figurative work, and impressionistic . Her traditional watercolor and Sumi-e techniques employ a limited palette based on triads. She has studied with master watercolor teachers all over the world and has taught beginning-advanced watercolor painters for over forty years.
Sally has been active in the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society since 2003, editor of its Waterbucket newsletter since 2004, and has served on its Board for many years and as President and Vice President. She has been an Exhibiting Member of the of the Buffalo Society of Artists since 2011and has served on its Board and as an officer. She is also a member of the Fine Arts League.
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.
Join Mary Whyte for an inspirational presentation – Three Keys to Creating Your Best Work
After a brief Members Meeting, Mary Whyte will discuss her work and what she has learned to be the three keys to producing your best work ever.
A very special event for our monthly members meeting!
The May 2023 Waterbucket has been posted!
NFWS Spring 2023 Open Watercolor Exhibition – Online Show!
Our NFWS Online Show of the Spring 2023 Open Watercolor Exhibition has been posted! Here is the link:
NFWS Spring 2023 Open Watercolor Workshop
Daneen Kane’s “Apple Blossoms”
The Exhibition runs from May 3 – 27, 2023 at the Carnegie Art Center, 240 Goundry Street, North Tonawanda, NY. The Awards Reception is Thursday evening, May 25th from 6 – 8 pm.
(716) 694-4400
Our first in person Members Meeting and Demonstration by Judith K. Hand is Thursday, April 20th from 7 to 9 at the Amherst Community Church. Hope to see you there!
Our March 2023 Waterbucket has been posted!
See it and all of the Waterbucket Newsletters back to January 2015 here:
Waterbuckets on our NFWS Website!
Today, February 26th, the last day to submit your paintings for the NFWS Spring 2023 Open Watercolor Exhibition!
Here is a direct link to the Call for Work page where you can find a link to the Prospectus, and you can submit your paintings on line. Good luck everyone!