Roycroft Winter Festival 2024
Schedule
Sat Dec 07 2024 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm
Location
4625 Harlem Rd, Buffalo, NY 14226-3814, United States | Amherst, NY
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The 2024 Roycroft Winter Festival will return to The Park School of Buffalo for a second year. Thanks to the overwhelming success of the 2023 Winter Festival and the generosity of Park School, the 44th annual Roycroft Winter Festival will take place in the Rich Family Activity Center on the Park School Campus. This state of the art facility has made it possible for the Roycrofters at Large to expand the footprint of the festival to 35 booths and exhibitors, restoring the Roycroft Winter Festival to the largest festival in ten years! The Winter Festival will be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 7 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 8, 2024 at The Park School, located at 4625 Harlem Road in Amherst, with ample and convenient parking. A nominal admission fee of $5 will be charged for adults. Admission for children and RALA Patrons and members is free of charge. Active Park Students and their heads of household and Park Faculty are free of charge. $4 Advance Pre-Sale for parties of two or more is available through the ticketing link or RALA website. Tickets are non-refundable.
Event organizers have used this opportunity to reintroduce live art, demonstrations by Masters, artist presentations and seasonal programming, marking this as a return to the Festival that collectors and enthusiasts will recall from years past.
This year’s Roycroft Winter Festival features the work of Roycroft Masters and Artisans, two Roycroft Emerging Artist cohorts and a schedule of live and interactive art demonstrations by Roycroft Artisans and Masters throughout the weekend. RALA and Park are also joined by the Buffalo Society of Artists and other non-profit arts partners working alongside RALA in the WNY Arts community.
The Roycroft Winter Show is a traditional opening of the gift giving season, and offers a wonderful selection of handcrafted fine art and high craft made with the highest standards in craftsmanship.
This year’s Festival Poster highlights the work of Master CJ Hurley of Pennsylvania. “Winter Rose” is a significant work by Hurley and RALA is proud to spotlight this fine work as a collaborative celebration of the White Rose’s 20th anniversary. A limited series of commemorative posters will be released for purchase at the Winter Festival to festival goers and available to membership following the festival.
NEW to the Roycroft Winter Festival in 2024: Visitors with children can sit with Santa Claus from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
In furtherance of RALA’s mission to educate and foster, the work of Park School student Anna Dyshlovyi will be highlighted as part of the 2024 Winter Festival as the first Emerging Park Artist. Dyshlova, originally from Ukraine, is a 17 year old painter currently residing in the United States and attending Park School of Buffalo. She began to seriously engage with an art practice at 13 and while she enjoys working in different styles, she primarily works in abstract realism. She has been teaching privately for fellow students and adults since the age of 14, believing that craft and art is an essential for everyone as a tool for therapy, mental health and has potential to create income. Dyshlova has also worked with glass and pottery, digital art and large scale on walls. While here in the United States with her family, she has developed her process and her business practice to gain juried entry into various regional festivals, including Music is Art, the Lewiston Art Festival, Glen Park Festival and Tiferet JFS.
Roycrofters at Large is proud and touched to have the opportunity to help Dyshlova hone her practice and will work with her to help develop a CV, a portfolio, proper pricing and assistance with sales.
The work Park Students of Note will also be represented at the festival. Assembled work of Park Upperclassment art students, recommended by Park School of Buffalo art faculty in collaboration with the Roycrofters at Large Emerging Artists Chair will be installed in the Park Art Booth.
Founded in 1912, The Park School of Buffalo is WNY’s only co-ed, PreK - Grade 12 and Montessori school, and was also ranked #1 Best Private K-12 School in Buffalo and Erie County by Niche for its second consecutive year. Park was founded by a group of Buffalo parents who had met with the influential philosopher John Dewey. Under Dewey's guidance and with the leadership of his star student, Mary Hammett Lewis, Park began educating children in 1912 implementing Dewey's key insight that deep learning occurs through constant experimentation and problem solving. The curriculum has always been interdisciplinary, as such, the arts are integrated into all academic subjects. Park students are academically and socially prepared problem solvers equipped with confidence, critical thinking skills, and a desire to make the world a better place.
Park School’s proximity to both the northtowns and the City of Buffalo is in keeping with RALA’s mission to promote and further the evolution of Roycroft and an exciting opportunity to connect the Roycroft Renaissance with a broader segment of Western New York Arts & Crafts collectors. Park’s philosophy and shared tradition in the Arts & Crafts Movement represents significant mission overlap and shared vision, and RALA is pleased to partner with Park to further its charter and to expose what the East Aurora based Roycroft community has to a wider audience.
“We are thrilled to partner with the Roycroft to host their winter art show. Art education is core to the Park educational experience and our students, families and teachers are very lucky to have the opportunity to learn from and be inspired by the wonderful artists who will be showing their work, “ said Keith Frome, President of Park School.
2024 Winter Festival Exhibitors include:
Peter Potter, Master Photographer
Laura Wilder, Master Printmaker
Louise Richens, Master Fiber Artist
Thomas Pafk, Thomas Pafk Designs, Master in Wood
Karen Sienk, Master Fiber Artist
CJ Hurley, Master Painter
Ron VanOstrand, Master Metalsmith
Greg Hain, Albatross Goods, Artisan in Leather
Patty Cancilla, Master Jeweler
Leah Corey, Master in Bead
Michael Cancilla, Artisan in Painting
Dave Tundo, Master Metalsmith
Ann Perry Smith and Jerry Smith, Masters Ceramicists
Tom Ciminelli, The Buffalo Creek Leatherworks
Eileen Delduca, Master Goldsmith
Mission Guild Studio, Masters Miller and Schorf-Miller
Suzanne O'Brien, Zaniecrafts, Artisan in Fiber
Susan Cudaback, Master Jeweler
Lee Williams, Roycroft Emerging Artist in Photograhy, 2024
Marilyn Akerson-Corbitt, Artisan in Fiber
Brian Newton, Master in Wood
Shawn Krueger, Master Painter
Timothy Dunn, Master Metalsmith
Karen Matchette, Master in Drawing
Barbara Fox, Roycroft Emerging Artist in Painting (oils), 2024
Henry Schmidt, Master Sculptor
Linda Nagel Meyer, Master Calligrapher
Karen Ernst, Artisan in Wood
Raffle tickets for the RALA “Goodie Box” will also be available. The Goodie Box is a tradition of the organization for over 20 years, and is the backbone of its non-profit fund-raising initiatives.
The 2024 Goodie Box contains items created by Roycroft Artisans and Master Artisans valued at over $9,000. The drawing will be held in February 2025, at the 38th National Arts and Crafts Conference, at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. The winner need not be present.
For more information on this and the 49th annual Roycroft Summer Festival in 2025 or to become a member patron, visit ralaweb.com.
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4625 Harlem Rd, Buffalo, NY 14226-3814, United States, 4610 Harlem Rd, Buffalo, NY 14226-3815, United States,Snyder, New York, AmherstEvent Location & Nearby Stays: