Rehoboth Art League to host opening reception Nov. 7

The final exhibitions of 2025 will be arriving soon at the Rehoboth Art League. 

Rounding out another year of shows, a juried members’ showcase, award winners for Delaware’s Individual Artists Fellowship and a solo exhibition by plein air painter Robert Hunter will be on display from Friday, Nov. 7 through Sunday, Nov. 30, at 12 Dodds Lane, Henlopen Acres.

The art league will host an opening reception for these new exhibits from 5 to 7 p.m., Nov. 7, inviting anyone interested to visit the Corkran, Tubbs and Ventures galleries to see the displayed work.

Works from RAL’s member artists are the focus of the showcase Landscapes: Real and Imagined. Whether inspired by a photo, painted on location or created from fantasy, landscapes show how artists draw inspiration from the world around them and translate it with their own unique vision. Ocean panoramas, pastoral vistas, urban settings, change of seasons, and times of day all evoke reactions and emotions. A variety of mediums, styles and interpretations can be found in this display. The pieces featured in this exhibition were juried by contemporary painter and sculptor Martha Spak.

Award Winners XXV is a traveling exhibit featuring work from Delaware’s 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship recipients.

The Delaware Division of the Arts received applications from 191 Delaware choreographers, composers, musicians, writers, and folk, media and visual artists this year. The work samples were reviewed by out-of-state arts professionals who considered the demonstrated creativity and skill in each artist’s respective art form. In all, 21  artists were awarded fellowships in the following categories: one master's; 11 established, nine emerging and 13 runners-up. The 21 selected fellows reside throughout Delaware, including Bear, Clayton, Dagsboro, Lewes, Milton, Newark, New Castle, Rehoboth Beach, Smyrna and Wilmington. This show, which began at the Biggs Museum of American Art in May and made a stop at the Historic Odessa Foundation, will have its final viewing at the Rehoboth Art League.

Hunter’s solo exhibition, Let There Be Light, demonstrates how light becomes an aesthetic medium, element and fabric from which creators weave the tapestry of their visual lives. Working primarily in oil, Hunter paints a variety of subjects spanning coastal landscapes, boats, farmland, fields, valleys, rivers and figurative compositions. But he always tries to capture the visual experience — such as light, colors and time — of each scene to portray the true essence of a piece. Hunter said, “The paintings I create, quite simply, depict a captured moment in time, an attempt to be here now. I’m an observer, so the process of selecting a subject to draw or paint is largely determined by chance circumstances. When the light is right, and the spirit moves me, I paint.”

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.