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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Art Institute has reinstituted in person classes for sometime now. Some Artist Members painting from the Live Model in Rebecca Leer’s Wednesday and/or Thursday Morning Oil Painting Class. Creating Art produces endorphins which help to galvanize us in these challenging times. Thankful to be back in our beautiful North Light Studios!
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PJ Blogger and the entire staff of the Ridgewood blog would like to Wish you a very Merry Christmas!
We also would like thank, you our readers , advertisers , patrons and supporters for all your contributions this year !
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Art Institute 68th Annual Sponsor Show is available for viewing online, as well as in our lovely galleries. Here is one of the beautiful pieces that has been donated by our Artist Members. All proceeds for this event go directly to The Ridgewood Art Institute, a veritable jewel in our community, that so many of us call home.
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Ridgewood NJ, watch A Case of Blue – the film that everyone in Ridgewood is talking about! Directed by local filmmaker, Dana Glazer, produced by Scott Rosenfelt (Home Alone, Mystic Pizza) and featuring many familiar faces and Ridgewood locations, The Ridgewood blog highly recommends A Case of Blue, it is now available on DVD and Blu-ray! Includes free shipping. www.acaseofblue.com/shop/
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Ridgewood NJ, One of the Ridgewood Art Institute, Artist Members painting in Charles Brandenburg’s Tuesday Nite Watercolor Class. We are up and running after our Winter Break!
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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Art Institute is happy to announce two recipients of our Members’ Scholarship this year, Sophia Mchedlishvili and Viancha Antonucci.
Sophia is the recipient of a $1500 scholarship. Sophia is graduating from Ridgewood High School and will attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and majoring in Industrial Design. She has been a student at RAI for 8 years, primarily a student of Joel Popadics but had also taken classes with Laura Paray and Rebecca Leer. She has won many awards at RAI throughout the years and has expressed that RAI has always been an important part of her life and that our classes provided valuable skills that will help her in college as well as beyond. Congratulations to Sophia and best of luck in college and your future art career!
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Art Institute still stands empty, after 3 months. This beautiful building was originally a carriage house, built during the time of Lincoln’s Presidency. If those walls could speak, the amazing stories they would be able to tell. The building was gifted to RAI, by the owners of the home directly across the street. For 85 years it has been a veritable sanctuary to those committed to the pursuit of excellence in creating Art, more specifically the study of Classic Realism for both children and adults. Our banner “Art Show Today” has greeted many new visitors, who have subsequently become Members, Patrons and Family.
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Things to keep in mind when ordering food on the Valentines day.
The Top 10 Aphrodisiac Foods
You are what you eat, because what you eat directly influences your body and your body functions.
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February 12,2020
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Ridgewood NJ, Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12 in 1809. He lived for a time in Indiana before moving to Illinois. He worked on a farm, split rails for fences, worked in a store, was a captain in the Black Hawk War, and worked as a lawyer. He married Mary Todd and together they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity.
