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NEWS

Eileen Woods/Stephanie Craig & Todd Leech

(Columbus, OH/Berea, OH)

mixed media/ceramic

April 23 - May 18, 2012

Lecture/demo by S. Craig and T. Leech
Friday, May 18 from 5:30-7:00pm. FREE

Art Ed 2012: An Art Educators Exhibition. Deadline June 29. INFORMATION.

Yoga in the Gallery meets Mondays from 9:30-10:30 through May 21. $4 for Kettering Residents/$8 for non-residents

ART LUNCH is an ongoing opportunity to share your artwork and meet other artists. Bring a lunch. Meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday. 4/26, 5/10, 5/24. Join us on Facebook.


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Rosewood Gallery was established in 1986 in the Rosewood Arts Centre. The gallery specializes in the exhibition of contemporary art by local, regional and national artists. It is dedicated to the encouragement and creation of new works and to the promotion of visual arts in the Dayton, Ohio area. Rosewood Gallery consists of two identical rooms, with a total of 1800 square feet of exhibition space.
View this year's gallery exhibitions View past gallery exhibitions

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Rosewood Gallery
2655 Olson Drive
Kettering, OH 45420
Phone: (937) 296-0294
Fax: (937) 296-3289

Gallery Hours:
Monday through Thursday: 8:00 am - 9:00 pm
Fridays:
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturdays:
9:00 am - 3:00 pm


 

JURIED COMPETITIONS

Rosewood Gallery presents three juried competitions and one curated competition each year: The Dayton Area Works on Paper (for artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton, Ohio, working on or in paper), The View Landscape Competition (for Ohio artists working with landscape imagery or environmental themes), ArtEd (for Art Educators in the Dayton area), and HWD Sculpture Competition (for artists from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania who are working in any sculptural medium). Entry forms are required for all competitions; same-size photocopies are acceptable.

Deadlines for entering the competitions are as follows:

Dayton Area Works on Paper

COMPETITION INFORMATION AND ENTRY FORM
2012 DEADLINE: Thursday, January 19, noon – 7 p.m. and Saturday, January 21, 11am – 2 p.m. Open to artists living within a 40-mile radius of Dayton. To view eligible areas, click here. Juried from actual work. $1,100 in United Art and Education Awards.

2012 Juror: Mary Gaynier, Artist and Art Educator, Toledo, OH.

The View: A Juried Landscape Competition

COMPETITION INFORMATION AND ENTRY FORM
2012 DEADLINE: Friday, April 6th

Open to artists living in Ohio. Juried from digital files. $1,100 in Juror Awards2012 Juror: John Humphries, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Miami University, School of Fine Art, Cincinnati, OH.

Art Ed: A Curated Exhibition for Dayton Art Educators

COMPETITION INFORMATION AND ENTRY FORM
2012 DEADLINE: Friday, June 29th Open to current Art Education professionals. $300 in People's Choice Awards

HWD: A Regional Sculpture Competition
COMPETITION INFORMATION AND ENTRY FORM

2012 DEADLINE: Friday, August 31st

Open to artists living in OH, IN, KY, MI, WV and PA. Juried from digital files.

$1,100 in Art and Education Awards. 2012 Juror: Valerie Mann, Artist, Educator, Art activist, Saline, MI.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

The deadline for entering a proposal for a solo exhibition is February 3, 2012, for exhibition in 2013.  View gallery proposal guidelines

The 2013 Exhibition Panel:

Stephanie Sypsa - Gallery Director and Organizational Administrator for the Ohio Arts League

Janelle Young - Office Manager for the Dayton Visual Arts Center

Natasha Habib - Kettering Arts Council Member


Corridor Gallery

The Corridor Gallery, formally the Rosewood Student Gallery, was created in 2006 to showcase the artwork of the Rosewood students, instructors, and visiting artists.  In 2011, the Kettering Arts Council expanded the space to accommodate more artwork, and now coordinates showings and installations of the space. The Corridor Gallery is located in the Rosewood Arts Centre lobby and features dark brick walls. This is a great opportunity for local artists to showcase their work in front of a new group of patrons.  Since the gallery is located in a central meeting area, we are not able to display work that contains profanity or nudity.  Please contact Rosewood for more information.


Documenting Your Artwork

The best light for photographing artwork is overcast or indirect natural light. Resist the urge to resort to flash unless you absolutely have to (if the day is really dark and dreary, your images may pick up a blue cast). If your pieces are small (less than 10" x 14"), then you may be able to lay them flat on the ground and shoot from above. Larger work will be more easily shot if you lean it up against the wall. Either way, you may also find it beneficial to place a large piece of white cardboard or foam core behind your painting. This will eliminate any distracting background and allow the viewer to focus on your artwork. You will find this helpful especially if you are shooting slides, since your cropping options will be limited. Whether you lay the art flat or lean it up against the wall, your challenge will be to shoot the artwork straight on, without skewing the frame or edges by leaning one way or the other. Imagine the plane your film is occupying in space and try to keep it completely parallel to your painting. Your goal is to hold the camera as if you were to lay the film flat against the painting. Use a tripod if you have a hard time keeping the film plane parallel or keeping the camera steady.  These are the basics of documenting your artwork, this information and more specific details are available at http://www.betterphoto.com.

For more information, entry forms or exhibition proposal guidelines, please contact:

Amy K. Anderson, Coordinator
Rosewood Gallery
2655 Olson Drive
Kettering, OH 45420
Phone: (937) 296-0294
Fax: (937) 296-3289
amy.anderson@ketteringoh.org