"Sea & Fog" will be in the upcoming CWA Exhibition

     I am so pleased to announce that my painting "Sea & Fog" has been accepted into the 84th Annual National Open Juried Exhibition of the Connecticut Women Artists.

     It was a very soggy morning when I painted "Sea & Fog" on location  at Fish Beach on Monhegan Island, Maine.  The island of Manana across the harbor appeared and disappeared eerily in the mists.  My husband called it a "Brigadoon" morning!

"Sea & Fog" is a 6 x 12" acrylic on linen.  Copyright Joan Cole.

     Juror of selections and awards was Douglas Hyland, Director of the New Britain Museum of American Art.

     The show runs from August 31 until September 27 at The Slater Memorial Museum, 108 Crescent Street in Norwich, CT 06360.

     The opening reception will be Saturday, September 7 from 2 to 4 PM.  I invite you to come.

"Crescent Lake Sunrise" has been juried into the New Britain Museum of American Art's 43rd Annual Juried Members Exhibition!

"Crescent Lake Sunrise," original 8 x 16" acrylic on canvas, copyright Joan Cole

I am so honored to have had "Crescent Lake Sunrise" chosen.  If you have never visited the New Britain Museum of American Art, I invite you to do so.  NBMAA is a treasure trove of art.  "The visitor can experience an entire survey of our nation’s artists ranging from John Singleton Copley, Frederic Church, and Thomas Cole, to Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton and Sol LeWitt. The collection is especially rich in American Impressionism; Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Theodore Robinson, Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, Julian Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, Frank Benson, Frederick Frieseke, Richard Miller, Arthur Clifton Goodwin, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, and Guy Wiggins are all well represented."

The 43rd Annual Juried Members Exhibition

Oct. 13, 2012–Oct. 28, 2012
Opening Reception
Sunday, Oct. 14, 1-2:30 p.m.

The 43rd Annual Juried Members Exhibition will be held this year from Oct. 13–28. An Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony for the exhibition will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14. This year's Members Exhibition will be on view in the spacious McKernan Gallery.

The juror for this year’s exhibition is Robert Burns, Executive Director of the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT.

I hope you will be able to attend the opening.