MUSHROOMING

 

I was excited to make some new Valentines this year inspired by my favorite room....the MUSHROOM!!!

5 sets of my Valentines are available through the Bennington Museum. Proceeds from card sales will be split equally between the Museum and myself. Cards are available for purchase through the link below until the 14th and may be shipped or picked up at the Museum by appointment.

https://store.benningtonmuseum.org/collections/ratray

Gruss Vom Krampus

                               Greetings from Krampus!

My Etsy Shop now seems to be a Krampus shop! Get your own Tea Towel/ Bar Towel, Ornaments and more!! https://www.etsy.com/shop/SNAKEeyes?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

Artists to Watch 2019

An exhibition of Artists to Watch will take place at the Vermont Arts Council Spotlight Gallery January 7th to February 28th, 2019. The Arts Council’s gallery is open to the public and located in the corridor and conference room of the offices at 136 State Street in Montpelier.  Exhibition curator and Vermont Art Guide Editor Ric Kasini Kadour recruited nine additional Vermont art professionals and asked them to nominate artists who are making contemporary Vermont art that commands our attention. The 2019 Vermont Artists to Watch are: Sarah Amos (Enosburg Falls); Clark Derbes (Charlotte); Hasso Ewing (Calais); Andrew Frost (Burlington); Sally Gil (Brooklyn, NY); Sean Hunter Williams(Montpelier); Elizabeth Nagle (East Dorset); Andrew Orr (Richford); Rhonda Ratray (North Bennington); and Jackson Tupper (Burlington). And don't forget to pick up the latest edition of Vermont Art Guide! HERE 

R-CADE

  R-CADE

 Installation at The North Bennington Train Depot

  part of the North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show (NBOSS_

                     

Family Affair

 Family Affair was introduced to our neck of the woods by Jennifer Jasper and Kate Whitehall. Oldcastle Theater and Bennington Area Arts Council Co- sponsored the caberet which raised $657 for the Kitchen Cupboard in Bennington Vermont! Storytellers included: Brandy Reynolds, Mike Nigro and Tim Van Orden, Musicians Cindy Legge and Kate Whitehall Poet James Crews,dancer Sophie Marie with EDM Artist Otto Schatz
and Visual Artist Rhonda Ratray. What a great event! My work will be on view at Oldcastle Theater Company through February. Highlighting some of the many facets of my personality and history...

               A new incarnation of the Sinterklaas Shrine! A Near Brush with death: Your Painted miracles!                             

               

          A detail of the Shrine                     
               

Many of my Bridges are on view!

       Disaster at Wishbone , Bridge the Coffin Bridges and The Old Sheetbend bridges

 Three views of Carpenter Hill Road, Aimee LaPorte

                                       

Bearberry, Animal Botanical,

Aimee LaPorte

                             

VERMONT OPEN STUDIO!

Open Studio*************
MAY 26th and 27th (Memorial Day Weekend)

Join me at my studio, Ink In The Blood Press

LOCATION : Taraden 183 Park St, North Bennington, VT 05257  

10- 5 Saturday and Sunday statewide 179 Studios and Exhibits!! 

vermontcrafts.com

http://vermontcrafts.com/OSW/maps-directions.html

Call to artists

For the month of June, The Left Bank in North Bennington will celebrate the legacy of Shirley Jackson through a show inspired by her words "Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?"

 Submission deadline May 25th. Send images with relevant information and proposals to leftbanknb@gmail.com or rhondaratray@gmail.com. Show opens June 1st