June 2023
student artists
Some of the best art colleges in the country can be found in our region along with many exceptional art departments within universities. RSFAA reaches out to art programs in PA, DE, NJ, and NY to invite full-time art students to both of our annual shows. Learn More
“Rittenhouse has been creating spaces for young artists for nearly 100 years, and their work has been powerful for the art community and the community at large.”
- Frances Donnelly Wolf
Michael Ballezzi
Studio Incamminati
Figurative Realist / Naturalist with a focus in oil painting and drawing.


Taylor Brown
Rowan University
My drawings and paintings are very smooth and have a realistic aspect. My mediums range from charcoal, graphite, color pencil on paper, and oil painting on canvases.


Stephen Bush
Studio Incamminati
I am a painter and draftsman based in Philadelphia. My focus is on representational painting, coupled with impressionist color to highlight the vibrant nature of the world around us.


Holly Dudley
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
I am a Painting major at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. I mainly work in Oil painting, drawing, and printmaking mediums


Claire Fukuchi
University of Pittsburgh
I am a Studio Arts Major at the University of Pittsburgh. I love challenging myself with learning different media and experimenting with new styles. I enjoy creating work with oil, acrylic, charcoal, and gouache.


Akira Gordon
University of the Arts
I work primarily in oil on wood panel or stretched canvas. I am interested in working with black figures and creating environments to put them in. I apply a colorful underpainting before using oil paints so that my work has a vibrancy or transparency to it.


Catherine Haverkamp
studio Incamminati
oil on canvas and board, pastel on paper. Representational portraiture and figurative work


Hannah Healy
Studio Incamminati
I've been studying oil painting for three years at Studio Incamminati, School for Contemporary Realist Art. Painting from the live model and studying anatomy, light effect, color relationships, tool handling, and more has improved my skills immensely. I am thrilled to be learning from painting masters, and I apply my new skills everyday.


Olivia Hiester
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
I work primarily in oil painting and drawing, as well as in monotype, relief, and intaglio printmaking. I aim to reconcile the demands of working from life with the abstract demands of pictures as worlds in and of themselves, distinct from the reality they represent.


Justin Kapp
Studio Incamminati School for Contemporary Realist Art
I'm interested in painting and drawing people directly from life. I like to keep a tight focus on the individual and make compelling compositions from a handful of variables, the model, their seat, perhaps some other elements in the room. I seek to capture the specific person that I'm painting and to do so without preciousness or overly rendering and polishing.


Liz Lippman
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
I mainly work in printmaking. My favorite mediums are lithography, woodblock, bookarts, hand papermaking, and letterpress.


Keshawna Logan
University Of The Arts
I apply paste on canvas through handmade stencils with a palette knife to create highly texturized surfaces. Once dried, I will paint the surface with either oil or acrylic paints.


Brooke McVeigh
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
My work consists of medium to large scale oil paintings on panel and stretched canvas. I work from observation and imagination, hoping to find how paint can connect these two sources of inspiration.


Andre Melchor
Studio incamminati
I work primarily with oil on canvas working in an indirect painting method, my drawings consist of charcoal and graphite on hand toned paper colored with an array of inks, pigments, and dispersions.


Annalisa Shanks
Studio Incamminati
Emerging artist specializing in contemporary realist drawing and oil painting


Ella Solimene
Tyler School of Art
I use oil on canvas or wood. For my acrylic and oil pastel pieces, I use primed watercolor paper. I also do many graphite drawings on newsprint paper.


Nathan Vasko
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design
I mainly used acrylic but use whatever comes into my possession. A painting will usually start with a background I get funky with or an outside reference and once thats rendered on the canvas I let the universe do the rest.


Scott Woyak
Studio Incamminati
I work in a variety of mediums including charcoal, graphite, red chalk, oil paint, and pen and ink. In all cases I focus on realism and capturing the spirit of my subject matter.

