Rehoboth Beach Arts Festival
The Rehoboth Art League (RAL) will bring its sixth-annual Rehoboth Beach Arts Festival to Grove Park on Saturday, May 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., kicking of the organization’s summer programming. The Rehoboth Beach Arts Festival is presented in partnership with the City of Rehoboth Beach.
The Art League is proud to showcase 34 artists at this year’s event, each of whom are RAL members and were juried into the show based on the merit of their work. This year’s participants include Sussex County locals and creatives traveling from as far as Florida and Minnesota. Original work for sale at the festival spans mediums including ceramics, wood, oil painting, photography, jewelry, and glass. The RAL website features a complete list of artists participating in the show.
Featured artist Elizabeth Sabine, an Ocean County, NJ-based artist, has donated an original oil painting valued at $3,500 to be raffled off at the festival. Sabine’s work is largely influenced by the impressionist movement, and she finds inspiration in the color of nature, which is intensified in her paintings. Raffle tickets are $5 each or five for $20 and can be purchased in advance at the RAL gallery (12 Dodds Lane), as well as on the event day at RAL’s membership tent. Proceeds from the raffle support the Art League’s education and exhibition programming. The drawing will take place following the festival’s closing on May 16.
The event is free to attend and will be held rain or shine. The Rehoboth Beach Arts Festival is sponsored by Faw Casson and Paint & Prosper Magazine.
There is no event-designated parking for the Rehoboth Beach Arts Festival. Parking meters will be in effect as of May 15. Grove Park is adjacent to the area’s bike trail and is also accessible by water at Rehoboth Beach’s public dock, just behind Rehoboth Beach Museum.
The Rehoboth Art League is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.delawarescene.com.
The Rehoboth Art League is a membership-based nonprofit arts organization dedicated to teaching, preserving, and inspiring the arts in the region. For additional information about the Art League, its classes, memberships, events, and exhibitions, please visit rehobothartleague.org or call 302-227-8408. Find RAL on Facebook and Instagram @RehobothArtLeague.