VAN WERT, OH (NWPR) – The Ohio Watercolor Society’s 47th Annual Juried Exhibition of 2024 makes it next travel exhibition stop at the Wassenberg Art Center, opening Thursday, January 16, 2025. The show consist of 32 of the paintings, including all of the award winners and remains on view through February 6, 2025.
The Ohio Watercolor Society was established in 1978 by a group of 17 artists who aspired to bring more attention throughout Ohio to the art of watercolor painting. Since then, the scope of “watercolor” has broadened to include a variety of water-based paints including acrylics, gouache, casein and egg tempera; but its goals remain the same: “To promote and ensure high standards of watercolor painting in Ohio; to guide and assist students and aspiring watercolor artists; and to encourage the advancement, understanding, appreciation and awareness of the broad scope of watercolor painting among the general public.”
To fulfill its mission, the Society conducts a juried exhibition each year, a portion of which travels for display at other sites throughout Ohio; sponsors workshops, critiques, demonstrations and lectures; and funds an annual scholarship awarded to a talented high school student artist.
From Van Wert, the show continues to travel to Marathon Center for the Performing Arts in Findlay and the Piqua Public Library in Piqua. Note: Initial showing began in September 2024 at the Middletown Arts Center and then to Amos Public Library in Sidney
To view the award winners and those chosen for the 2024 Travel Show see: https://www.ohiowatercolorsociety.org/watercolor-ohio-2024