Waverly Community House announces June Small Works Gallery art opening

WAVERLY TWP. — The Board of Trustees of the Waverly Community House, 1115 N. Abington Road, announced the next Waverly Small Works Gallery Exhibit will feature the works of artist Renée Emanuel. “In Praise of the Ordinary” will be on display in the Gallery (in the South Wing of The Comm) Friday, June 6, through Friday, July 18, with an Opening Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday.

Renée is an artist, gardener and lover of old houses and her companion animals. She is a lifelong resident of NEPA who is also inspired by the beautiful and rugged coast of Maine, where she and her husband spend their summers.

She graduated summa cum laude from Marywood University and received a Master of Fine Arts in painting. She creates colorful paintings in acrylic, watercolor and casein that celebrate her strong connection to the land and to the still life objects that evoke an interior landscape.

She has been recognized in the publication, The Best of America, Watercolor Artists and Artisans and has juried signature membership to both the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic and the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society. She has received numerous awards including the Faber Birren Color Award, The Richardson-Shiva Award and The Marian de Sola Mendes Award for casein painting.

Renée’s work was also selected for the books Watercolor Expressions and The Best of Acrylic Painting, and was the focus of an article, “Cherished Objects” in Country Living Magazine. Her paintings were awarded recognition in The Best of Pennsylvania Artists and Artisans and represented in the “Small Works, North America” exhibition in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her work was selected for the exhibitions “Art of the Land” and “Flocks and Feathers” at the Everhart Museum. She has served on the jury of selection for the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic. Her paintings have been featured in solo exhibitions including Marywood University Suraci Gallery and the Pauly Friedman Gallery at Misericordia University. She has shared many exhibitions with her husband Bill Teitsworth here in Scranton, at the AFA Gallery, ArtWorks, the Soho Gallery, and in Rockland Maine at the Landing Gallery.

Renée teaches classes in watercolor and acrylics throughout the year here in Pennsylvania and offers plein-air workshops at her studio in Owls Head, Maine.

The Gallery is a project of The F. Lammot Belin Arts Foundation whose mission it is to promote art appreciation in the community and to encourage and hearten the human spirit through art. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

For information on the foundation, visit www.waverlycommarts.org.