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Custom House Portrait, watercolor by Marguerite Bride; click for enlargement & details
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Along the River, pastel by June Parker; click for enlargement & details
 
The Housatonic Valley Art League, (formerly Sheffield Art League), the resource for the arts and art lovers in the Berkshires, is excited about all the events and offerings we have in place for 2008.

The "Painterly Collage" workshop in April with Yura Adams was so successful that it sure to be a repeat offering before long, and the same is to be said about the June watercolor workshop taught by Joan Boryta; please see the workshop page for details about others that have been planned for this year.

Our Annual Member Show has concluded. Photos of the award-winning works for that show and for the Annual Juried Show are viewable on our Gallery/Award-winners page.

With a growing membership spanning an increasingly wider geographical area, combined with a desire to offer events closer and more convenient for local groups, members of HVAL have organized into Connecticut, North and South County regional chapters. There are events being scheduled for each of these areas.

Be sure to look over our community project from 2004, Housatonic River Summer 2004, a summer-long festival so successful that other organizations have joined to follow SAL's lead and are making it an annual affair (see website).

Late fall is upon us now - subtle new colors abound, and Berkshire galleries are all open and active, and classes are under way. See our Berkshire Art page for details and links.

Joan Boryta with the watercolor demo painting she has just completed
Workshop teacher Joan Boryta with her watercolor demo painting.