Rehoboth Art League to host opening receptions June 10
The Rehoboth Art League has an exciting range of shows coming up this June and July.
Kicking off summer will be the 49th Annual Members’ Fine Craft Exhibition, as well as Barbara Martin’s Eastward to Wyoming; Prints and Paintings by Alexi Natchev; and Faces of Many Nations, clay masks by Amelie Sloan, all on display from Friday, June 10, to Sunday, July 17.
The art league will host receptions for all the exhibitions from 5 to 7 p.m., June 10, inviting anyone interested to visit the Corkran, Tubbs, Ventures and Homestead galleries to see these new shows.
The Members’ Fine Craft Exhibition is a signature summer show for the league; it comprises works created by member artists in a wide variety of media including baskets, ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, wood and more.
Artists and the public are invited to hear from this year’s exhibition judge, Andrea Uravitch, during her free gallery talk at 10 a.m., Saturday, June 11, in the Corkran Gallery. Uravitch, who has shown in more than 300 invitational, juried and solo shows in museums, galleries, art centers, college venues and institutions, will discuss her selection of the award-winning pieces.
Taking over the Ventures Gallery this month will be abstract works by Barbara Martin for her solo show, Eastward to Wyoming. This collection of paintings was inspired by Martin’s time at the Jentel Artist Residency in the Lower Piney Creek Valley of the majestic Bighorn Mountains in eastern Wyoming. Using the rhythm of the landscape and summer sky, these works encompass the movement and sensations of the vast openness of the Montana and Wyoming area.
RAL’s historic Peter Marsh Homestead will display Prints and Paintings by Alexi Natchev. Born, educated and starting his artistic career in Bulgaria, Natchev’s body of work as a whole reflects the scope and range of his creative endeavors in different fields of visual art: illustration, drawing, painting and public art. This exhibit displays Natchev’s diverse range, giving viewers the chance to see his various processes and layered technics.
Finally, the DeWitt gallery will showcase a special exhibit of Faces of Many Nations, a display of Amelie Sloan’s ceramic hand-built masks. A longtime art league member and niece of one of the league’s founding members, Ethel P.B. Leach, Sloan leaves a lasting legacy at RAL, with a namesake room in the pottery studio on campus as well as an endowed exhibition award offered annually for excellence in ceramic hand building. This exhibition will allow the public the rare opportunity to purchase some of Sloan’s masks.
The exhibitions are free and open to everyone during the regular gallery hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday.
For more information, go to RehobothArtLeague.org or call 302-227-8408.
