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FabrianoinWatercolor USA-October 14-19, Ft. Worth, Texas!

Location: Fort Worth Community Arts Center
1300 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107

 

This event is in collaboration with the Fabriano-In-Acquarello, an annual international watercolor exhibition in Italy; The Society of Watercolor Artists, Fort Worth; The City of Fort Worth; and other sponsors such as Fabriano Watercolor Paper and the Daniel Smith Paint Company.


It is the world’s biggest watercolor exhibition. The event will feature more than 1000 curated watercolor paintings by artists with different styles, different techniques, different themes, and different subject matter from more than 80 countries all over the world.



On October 14-15-16, the event will be attended by watercolor artists from all over the world. During those three days there will be over 25 demonstrations of watercolor techniques conducted by internationally well-known masters. The exhibition of the paintings will remain open the rest of that week.


If you are coming to Fort Worth to visit the exhibition of over 1,000 watercolor paintings from around the world, there will be a one-time fee of $20/person. That ticket is good for multiple visits. You do not have to pre-register or prepay the fee if you are only going to visit the painting exhibition.
Admission is FREE on Friday 10/18 and Saturday 10/19.

There will be demos by noted watercolor artists from the USA and around the world on Monday, 14 October, Tuesday, 15 October and Wednesday, 15 October. If you want to attend of the Demos, since space in limited, we prefer that you sign-up for and prepay the fees for attending the demos. Please see the Program for a listing of demo artists and times. All of the events listed on the program will take place in the Fort Worth Community Arts Center at 1300 Gendy Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107.

There is a pay to park garage adjacent to the Community Arts Center, $6 for the day. 

SWS is not handling registration for this event.

The links below have been provided by the event organizers:

1. Registration & Payment updated, registration and payment all in one, quick and easy!
This is the link to the new registration form: Registration Form
Attached is a QR code that directs to the same form. You can use as needed.

2. Event Program App this app includes a link to registration, has listings of the demos, sessions, dinners, demo artist profiles, etc. NOTE: this information is being updated live and is not yet complete, please be patient with us :)
This is the link to the program app: Program APP Note: the app adjusts for both phone and computer viewing, however it has been optimized for phones/devices.



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SWS hosts the prestigious Western Federation of Watercolor Societies annual exhibition this year in Grapevine, Texas.

The Western Federation of Watercolor Societies (WFWS) was formed in 1976 by the New Mexico Watercolor Society and included nine other watercolor societies. The purpose was to make a large and prestigious watercolor exhibition available at low cost to members for small and often isolated watercolor groups.

Today, the WFWS includes over 5,000 artists in ten regional watercolor societies and guilds.


Map of WFWS

The WFWS encourages and recognizes artistic excellence and works to increase visibility of watercolor as an artistic medium through our annual juried exhibitions. The exhibitions are sponsored by WFWS and hosted by a regional member society. Delegates meet annually (usually at the current show) to conduct general business and discuss the next year’s plans. Each society hosts the show on a rotating basis.  This year's exhibition will be at the Tower Gallery on Main Street in Grapevine. 

There were 699 paintings entered for the exhibition. The juror, Mary Whyte accepted 90 paintings into the exhibition.  SWS had a tremendous showing, with 17 artists accepted:

E. Gordon West
Jo Williams
Jane Jones
Michael Archer
Mary Rylant Batson
Olivette Hubler
DonTaylor
Sondra Carr
Judi Betts
Kathy Elliott
Barbara Lindley
Sheilagh Cooper
Mary Elle
Dana Brock
Beverly Boren 
Cecy Turner
Jessica Kirklin

The opening reception for the exhibition will be on Saturday, May 6th. The show will be on display through June 2.


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