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WAG Community Show
Join us for our fabulous Annual Summer Community Show and Sale, Friday, July 23 through Sunday, August 1. Our annual summertime show features original artwork and handcrafted items including pottery, jewelry, woodcraft and more! A popular component of the show is our Raffle of 5" x 7" paintings, all donated by WAG artists, and organized and arranged by Madeleine Ferraz and Judy Keeley. Click for more details!
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Summer Camp
The Westport Art Group is pleased to offer Summer Camp for Kids. There will be two sessions with the theme of “Reduce-Reuse-Remarkable”, A Summer Camp for Young Artists. The first session is Monday–Friday, August 9–13, and the second is August 16–20. Click for more details!
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Call for Entry!
The Tiverton Arts Council is pleased to send out a “Call for Entry” for the next exhibit at Tiverton Townhall. The show is “salvage + art”, to feature dynamic, inventive work created from materials that would have otherwise been discarded. Click for more details!
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Jean Hirons Pastel Plein Air Workshop to be held in the Fall
September 30, and October 1 & 2
Join Jean Hirons for a three day plein air pastel workshop this Fall. Jean’s philosophy is that the finished painting is what is most important, not the technique used to accomplish it, and she brings this philosophy to her teaching and presentations on pastel. Click here for more information.
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WAG 2010 Scholarships
Westport Art Group offers scholarships to Westport students, and much of our fund raising effort is dedicated to provide a helping hand to local scholars who have demonstrated interest and success in the arts and plan to study art in college.
This year we are awarding $500 scholarships to two very talented Westport High School seniors, Julia Greenwood & Camille Montano. The display that they set up was outstanding and showed wonderful examples of their work in watercolor, drawing, and photography. Julia will be attending Umass, Dartmouth and Camille will be attending Rhode Island School of Design.
Jean Hirons Demo
Jean Hirons, a signature member of the Pastel Society of America, the Maryland Pastel Society, and the Pastel Painters’ Society of Cape Cod, demonstrated painting with pastels on June 7. Read more.
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Artists in the Garden
June 16th brought us a beautiful day — everything cooperated to make our Artists in the Garden tour a big success: the weather and plenty of friends to take the tour. We heard a lot of complimentary comments! Read more.
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“Fur & Feathers” Award Winners!
1st Place Prize
“Don’t Forget Me” by Sue Prideaux
2nd Place Prize
“Tale of the Tail” by Margaret-Ann Rice
3rd Place Prize
“Misty Morning” by Phyllis Adams
Honorable Mentions
“Under the Moon” by Sharon Andrade
“The Visitor” by Heide Hallemeier
“Chickadee and Rhododendron” by Paul Vien
Most Expressive Animal Painting
“Smell the Flowers” by Mary Lou Murphy
The Most Expressive Animal Painting was chosen by chosen by Kim Dennis, Office Manager, Acoaxet Veterinary Clinic, Westport, at the Fur and Feathers Reception on Sunday, April 25, 2010. Click here for more details and pictures! -
Visit our Members Gallery
Take a look our members’ wonderful artwork! If you would like to have your work included in the Members Gallery, contact Mary Sexton at 401-288-0999. Click here to see the Members’ Gallery.
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Save Your Lee’s Receipts!
Please save your receipts from Lee’s, circle the totals and drop them in the box on the desk at the WAG building. Lee’s will donate 1% of the total. Last year we received over $240!
“Perfect Day” by Jean Hirons
“Don’t Forget Me” by Sue Prideaux
"Tale of the Tail" by Margaret-Ann Rice
"Misty Morning" by Phyllis Adams
The Raffle Wall, 2009 Summer Community Show
Critique
The mission of the Westport Art Group is to stimulate and promote the appreciation and encouragement of the arts and crafts.
The Westport Art Group was formed by a group of amateur and professional artists early in 1956. The members held classes in each others’ homes. The first Community Show was held in July, 1956 in the Westport Point School. It attracted a large crowd. In 1971, Elizabeth Yeomans Booth donated land to WAG “in memory of Edward, Julia and their son, Andrew Yeomans, for the encouragement of the arts and crafts”. She stipulated that a building was to be erected on the property within two years. The members raised funds and worked hard to do that and that is how 1740 Main Road came about.
WAG celebrated 50 years by honoring Dorothy Gifford Curtis, the last surviving Founding member, with a plaque at a Valentine’s Tea and an exhibit of her paintings in February, 2006.
Download a pdf copy of our brochure here!
