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Click on each page title in the horizontal menu to open each page. To see current/recent events/exhibitions, click directly on the menu title: CNYWS Events/Exhibitions. Our Events/Exhibits page ALSO has a white dot after the main title. If you "hover" over this title, you will access drop-down menus with more items. Each item will open an additional page. These additional pages are "galleries" of previous shows, for the most part.
The "parallel bars" symbol on the far right hand side of the menu includes :
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(Painting image: Follow the Light by Signature Member, Loretta Lepkowski)
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Our History
The Central New York Watercolor Society was formed in February 1982 with fourteen charter members from the central New York State region. The Society was organized with the assistance of Mario Cooper and his wife, Dale Meyers, both past presidents of the American Watercolor Society, as well as Clarence Say, and Dan Meyers, past presidents of the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society.
The first President of CNYWS was Willard J. Sauter of Utica, N.Y.
The Central New York Watercolor Society promotes the joy of watercolor painting through annual exhibitions, workshops, watercolor and water media demonstrations, and other educational outreach.
🌟The 2024 CNYWS Juried Exhibition for Members Only🌟 will be held in the Wilson Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library, Le Moyne College Juror of Selection and Awards : Michael Holter, AWS, NWS, TWSA IMPORTANT DATES:
ALL-MEMBER EXHIBIT AT ART IN THE ATRIUM, SYRACUSE, N.Y., ends this Saturday, April 27th Co-chairs: Kathleen Guthrie and Lisa Sebelle Exhibit Dates March 15 - April 27, 2024 PICK UP WORK 12 - 3 p.m. this Sunday, April 28th The Atrium Gallery is open Fridays noon- 8 pm and Saturdays and Sundays, noon - 8 pm ****************** 1st CNYWS Signature Show of 2024 opened March 22nd at VIEW Arts Center in Old Forge Exhibit will be up through May 28th Co-chairs: Mary Murphy and Lorraine Van Hatten (To see the virtual gallery, Go to Events/Exhibitions tab in the main menu. Hover your pointer over the white dot and the gallery is the first choice...select by clicking) ************* The online gallery of our 2023 juried show is also available for viewing! Go to the Events/Exhibitions Tab and "hover" to see the pull down menu. The gallery will be the second item listed. ***************************
"Success in watercolor results from the partnership between artist and medium; finding a balance within the knowledge, technique, and skill of the painter; and leaving room for the magic that makes watercolor so distinctive." Mick McAndrews CNYWS MEMBERS : Keep your brushes busy!! ********************** ATTENTION! We would like to now feature your paintings on our home page! NOW FEATURING PAINTINGS THAT CELEBRATE SPRING Please send a high res jpg. to lynch1@twcny.rr.com. Please include title! Can't wait to see what you have been up to! | Do you love Watercolor? Are you looking for opportunities to enhance your personal art journey? We encourage watercolor enthusiasts at all levels to join us!Looking for information? Enter a keyword in the Search blank above and hit ENTER ***********
MEMBER WORKS
Shadowbox Series, #1 Pamela Vogan Lynch
"Birch Trees" by Drayton Jones
The Old Tree by Katie Turner |
Watercolor in Art History
House Posts, Tsatsinuchomi B.C. by Emily Carr (1912; watercolor over graphite on wove paper, 22×30), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa This information is excerpted, with permission, from the article, “4 Pioneering Women Artists Everyone Should Know,” at ArtistsNetwork.com.
| Learn more about our Featured Member Artist, Jeri Meday in the CNYWS Newsletter Winter 2024.pdf Newsletter in our NEWS section |