Welcome to
 The Central New York
    Watercolor Society


  How to navigate this website:

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 :

Join CNYWS/ Associate and Signature information

Medallion Program

CNYWS Officers/BOD/Committees

CNYWS Newsletter Archive

Member Website Links, and more... Enjoy scrolling !

(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:

  • Submit your entries through www.onlinejuriedshows.com /create an account and then look for our CNYWS logo to enter, there is a $10 fee for each painting (1-2) entered/ DEADLINE is midnight, April 28th, 2024
  • Please submit a brief (30 words or less) artist's statement for each entry to Pam Lynch : lynch1@twcny.rr.com by May 1st (I realize you won't know if the painting(s) is/are accepted yet, but humor me as I have to type all the tags...)
  • Jurying to be completed by May 6th, with notifications to be sent May 7th-8th
  • Accepted paintings are to be to collectors by May 24th
  • Delivery of work to the gallery (see above) by May 30th,  10 - noon
  • Volunteers welcome to assist with hanging that day
  • Opening reception: Sunday, June 9th, 2 - 4 
  • Exhibit dates are June 3rd - August 15th
  • Pick up of exhibited work : Friday, August 16th, 10 - noon


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

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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)

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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.

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 Featured Member Art  for Spring:

                               

            "Trillium" by Judith Hand


"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!!

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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!


JOIN 


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! 







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                   MEMBER WORKS


                         

                           Shadowbox Series, #1

                             Pamela Vogan Lynch

            


               "Birch Trees" by Drayton Jones

             

             The Old Tree by Katie Turner


Latest news

LATEST NEWSLatest NewsLatest News

                 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


Check out Blog posts 

by Signature Member, 

KatieTurner

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