EXHIBITION PROPOSALS WRCA accepts applications from artists and curators for solo and themed group exhibition proposals which are reviewed by the curatorial committee. Currently, we are no longer accepting proposals for the 2026 exhibition schedule; applications for 2027 exhibitions will open shortly. Please check back for the 2027 application to open (anticipated Spring 2026) as … Continue reading 2027 Exhibition Proposals
2024 Artist & Joint Artist Members are invited to hang one piece in our Monthly Hallway Exhibits. Themes are suggested and artwork does not need to conform to the themes listed below. All pieces, including the frame must be smaller than 16x16 inches and be ready to hang with a wire. Saw tooth and other … Continue reading Submit Monthly: 2024 Hallway Exhibits
PROSPECTUS: Pastel SUBMISSION FORM THEME & GUIDELINES: Anyone may apply for this exhibit. The work will be juried by WRS Founder Shawn Dell Joyce. The theme is “Pastel" Submissions are limited to the medium (soft or hard) Pastel. Oil pastels do not qualify at this time. DATES: Submissions Due: August 1, 2024 Notification by: August … Continue reading Submit by August 1st: Pastel
Group exhibit of works based in photographs of New York City juried by Alison Colby. The exhibit is on view July 5, 2024 - September 1, 2024 The gallery is open to the public Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 12:00-5:00 pm or by appointment. Artists Reception Saturday, July 13, 2024 5:00-7:00 pm. Receptions are always … Continue reading Lens on New York
WRCA presents a solo exhibit of photographic works by Alison Colby on view July 5, 2024 - September 1, 2024. The gallery is open to the public Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 12:00-5:00 pm or by appointment. Artists Reception Saturday, July 13, 2024 5:00-7:00 pm. Receptions are always free and open to the public. Artist Statement: … Continue reading Alison Colby: #keepingitsecure
Retrospective exhibit honoring the photographic work of the late Peter A. Kopher. The exhibit is on view July 5, 2024 - September 1, 2024 The gallery is open to the public Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 12:00-5:00 pm or by appointment. Artists Reception Saturday, July 13, 2024 5:00-7:00 pm. Receptions are always free and open … Continue reading Peter A. Kopher, Legacy Exhibit
July 29th - August 2nd 10am-12pm Ages 8-14 Location: Benedict Farm Park Pavilion Cost: $135 per student Run around before the day gets hot with Nerf Camp! Darts and Blasters will be provided, but you’re free to bring your own if they take standard darts. Compete in an array of games to build cooperation skills … Continue reading July 29 – Aug 2nd Nerf Camp with Matt Donaldson
July 29th - August 2nd 10:00 - 12:00 am Grades 3rd- 7th Location: Wallkill River Center for the Arts Gallery Cost: $135 per student Mixed media will use a variety of techniques and mediums to create unique pieces of art. Students will learn the elements and principles of design to put together pieces of art … Continue reading July 29th – Aug 2nd Kid’s Mixed Media and Collage with Jodi Doster
Monday, July 29th 10am - 12pm Ages 8-13 Rain date: Wednesday, July 31st Location: Benedict Farm Park $55 per student Learn how to create your very own 3D sculptures from found and natural materials! Explore the beautiful Benedict Farm Park in Montgomery, NY this Summer with AGRISCULPTURE Amy, a master of Nature:Arts and sculptural collage, … Continue reading July 29th Scavenger Sculpture with Amy Lewis Sweetman
Tuesdays 9:30-12:00 This program is free for anyone over 65 years of age. Guests under 65 are welcome as well for a donation of $5.00 per day. Participants bring their own art materials and projects to work on and share with the group. Artists of all ability and experience levels are encouraged to come … Continue reading Senior Drop In
July 31st, no rain date 9am - 12pm Location: Inn at the Ridge $50 per person, $45 members Instructor specializes in Watercolor. Immerse yourself in the beauty of nature and the joy of artistic creation at our Plein Air painting workshop, held at the picturesque "The Inn on the Ridge" in Wallkill, New York, co-owned … Continue reading 07/31/24 Inn at the Ridge Plein Air with Diane Israel
August 2, 9, 16, 23rd Fridays 3:30-5:30pm In Person at the Wallkill River Center for the Arts Open to beginning and intermediate students Suitable for grades 6th - 12th $140 per student Animation Class Preview Animation is the art of bringing your drawings to life! Whether you’re interested in traditional animation, game animation, anime, 3D … Continue reading 08/2/24 Friday Afternoon Animation with Aedan Ciganek
August 3, 10, 17th Saturday mornings at 9:30-12pm $120, $105 for Members Live In Person – Painting with William Noonan For beginner, intermediate and advanced students. This course is conducted live in the classroom. The instructor’s main medium is oils but any painting medium is welcome in this class. Students are encouraged to follow their … Continue reading 08/2024 Oil Painting with William Noonan
Hot Wrk Ensemble plus Guest Artist Gwen Laster August 3, 2024 – 3 pm Wallkill River Center for the Arts, 232 Ward Street at 17K, Montgomery, NY 12549 Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible ramp and bathroom. FREE CONCERT - Suggested Donation $20.00 Hot Wrk Ensemble, the saxophone/woodwind and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award- winning … Continue reading 08/03/24 Hot Wrk Ensemble: Original Compositions
Sundays, 10am-12pm August 4, 11, 18, 25 $120 ($100 Members) ($90 to skip beginners day) The first day of the months' session is for anyone who is just starting out or needs more guidance. I would recommend that you attend if you're a first time student of this class! This beginning watercolor class will be … Continue reading 08/2024 Beginning Watercolor with Alan Lewis
August 5 - 9th 10 am - 12 pm Grades 3rd - 7th Location: Wallkill River Center for the Arts Gallery Cost: $135 per student In printmaking, students will make copies of an image that they have created from various sources of their choosing. They will then transfer the image and use carving or impressing … Continue reading August 5 – 9th Kid’s Printmaking with Jodi Doster
Tuesdays 9:30-12:00 This program is free for anyone over 65 years of age. Guests under 65 are welcome as well for a donation of $5.00 per day. Participants bring their own art materials and projects to work on and share with the group. Artists of all ability and experience levels are encouraged to come … Continue reading Senior Drop In
August 12 - 16th 10am - 12pm Grades 3rd - 12th You can create beautiful, colorful and imaginative paintings without using realistic images. Margaret will show you how to loosen up, relax and enjoy the process of expressive painting using water based paints and collaging your own painted papers. Experience how to work "intuitively" (with … Continue reading August 12 – 16th Expressive Painting & Collage with Margaret Grasso
August 12 - 16th 10am-12pm Ages 8-14 Location: Benedict Farm Park Pavilion Cost: $135 per student Run around before the day gets hot with Nerf Camp! Darts and Blasters will be provided, but you’re free to bring your own if they take standard darts. Compete in an array of games to build cooperation skills and … Continue reading August 12 – 16th Nerf Camp with Matt Donaldson
August 12, 19, 26th Mondays, 12:30-3pm In Person $120 ($105 Members) This class is appropriate for artists who possess a basic understanding of the principles of drawing from life. Subjects like form, scale, shading and composition form the core of the curriculum and will consistently be revisited. Class work will include a variety of subjects, … Continue reading 08/2024 Inter/Adv Drawing with William Noonan
Tuesdays 9:30-12:00 This program is free for anyone over 65 years of age. Guests under 65 are welcome as well for a donation of $5.00 per day. Participants bring their own art materials and projects to work on and share with the group. Artists of all ability and experience levels are encouraged to come … Continue reading Senior Drop In
August 14th 6-8pm $50 per student Still life painting is a unique experience, sign up and give it a try, or continue your journey. All levels and mediums welcome. Instructor shall work in watercolor. Each class shall consist of a short lesson, followed by each participant working individually on the evening’s still life scene. Individual … Continue reading 8/14/24 All-Medium Still Life Workshop with Alan Lewis
Friday August 16th 6:30-8:30pm $40 without materials $60 with all materials supplied $40, $60 to include materials in your registration For absolute beginners or oil painters who need a refresher and some renewed courage. Topics covered will include: materials, pigments, brushes, solvents, basic color mixing, paint application, how to start a painting. All the … Continue reading 08/16/24 Intro to Oil with William Noonan
Wallkill River Center for the Arts (WRCA) will welcome photographer Alison Colby for an artist’s talk on Saturday, August 17, at 2PM. “Until I was approached by the gallery’s chief curator, Billy Noonan, I hadn’t seen my work outside of my phone,” says Colby. “Billy helped me refine what an exhibit might look like—we discussed … Continue reading August 17th Artist Talk with Alison Colby
August 19-23rd 10am - 12pm Grades 2nd - 8th Many famous artists have special, unique styles which we can recognize and use as inspiration. They have created many works of art that we can create art of our own with! From Picasso's abstract faces to Van Gogh's sunflowers. Close up flowers like Georgia O'Keefe and … Continue reading August 19 – 23rd Try Famous Artists’ Styles with Margaret Grasso
August 19 - 23rd 10am-12pm Grades 3rd - 7th Location: Wallkill River Center for the Arts Gallery Cost: $135 per student Students will create their own art journal! They will add their pages and wire the journal together. We'll explore different materials and what an art journal is useful for. Once the journal is made … Continue reading August 19 – 23rd Kid’s Art Journals with Jodi Doster
August 19 - 23rd 1 pm - 3 pm Grades 8th - 12th Location: Wallkill River Center for the Arts Gallery Cost: $135 per student Students will create their own art journal! They will add their pages and wire the journal together. We'll explore different materials and what an art journal is useful for. Once … Continue reading August 19 – 23rd Teen’s Art Journals with Jodi Doster
Tuesdays 9:30-12:00 This program is free for anyone over 65 years of age. Guests under 65 are welcome as well for a donation of $5.00 per day. Participants bring their own art materials and projects to work on and share with the group. Artists of all ability and experience levels are encouraged to come … Continue reading Senior Drop In
August 20th 7-9pm Sip & Paint event with Nancy Reed Jones for Wanaksink Lake Residents: Please only pay for this event if you have been directed to do so by Carol Nasr.
Wednesday August 21st 3:30pm - 6:00pm At the Wallkill River Center for the Arts Suitable for Adults Animation Class Preview Animation! The art of making movement with drawings. This one day crash course will equip aspiring animators with the basic skills of the craft. We will: Practice key animation techniques Study movement from real life, … Continue reading 08/21/24 One Day Adult Animation Workshop with Aedan Ciganek
October 1st 1:30pm - 3:30pm At the Wallkill River Center for the Arts Slow stitching is a meditative and calming activity with a creative purpose. Gather your hand stitching, embroidery, knitting, or crocheting and join us to share time with other artistic people. Lap projects only (no machines). 1st & 3rd Tues of each month … Continue reading 10/1/2024 Slow Stitch Maker’s Drop In
Tuesdays 9:30-12:00 This program is free for anyone over 65 years of age. Guests under 65 are welcome as well for a donation of $5.00 per day. Participants bring their own art materials and projects to work on and share with the group. Artists of all ability and experience levels are encouraged to come … Continue reading Senior Drop In
Tuesday August 27th (Rain Date August 28th) 10am - 1pm at Iona Marsh/Bear Mt. State Park $50 per person, $45 for members Join me for a day of plein air painting, all levels and abilities are invited. Artists are encouraged to work in any medium they are comfortable with. This class is not specifically about … Continue reading 8/27/24 Iona Marsh Plein Air with Laura Martinez-Bianco
August 28th 6-8pm $50 per student Still life painting is a unique experience, sign up and give it a try, or continue your journey. All levels and mediums welcome. Instructor shall work in watercolor. Each class shall consist of a short lesson, followed by each participant working individually on the evening’s still life scene. Individual … Continue reading 8/28/24 All-Medium Still Life Workshop with Alan Lewis
PROSPECTUS: Small Works ENTRY FORM THEME & GUIDELINES: WRCA Artist Level Members (0nly) may hang work in this show. This show will span the holiday shopping season, so we will allow buyers to take purchased work with them immediately. Member Artists may hang up to 2 pieces in the exhibit and drop off a third … Continue reading Submit by Oct 17th: Small Works
PROSPECTUS: Likeness SUMBISSION FORM THEME & GUIDELINES: Portraits are forever. They capture the likeness of the human subject they are portraying. It may be through a visual similarity with the sitter or the ephemeral essence of the subject. Portrait artists bring all kinds of intangible aspects to their work. The fact that we can look at … Continue reading Submit by Oct 27, 2024: “Likeness” a National Call Portrait Exhibit