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September 2026
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 apply for both of our annual shows. Learn More

“Rittenhouse has been creating space for young artists for nearly 100 years, and their work has been powerful for both the art community and also the community at large.”  

- Frances Donnelly Wolf - artist, and former First Lady of Pennsylvania

Students
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James Cochrane

Studio Incamminati

I work on linen canvas, both acrylic primed and oil primed. Lately, I have started laying in a tone for the canvas, then drawing and values with burnt umber/white, and finally scattered color.

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Madison Cohen

Full-Time Student, University of Pennsylvania

The materials used to render this plein-air collection include stretched canvas, a handmade palette (for oils), paper, oil pastels, a variety of brushes, an outdoor French easel, and a palette knife.

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Natalie Erdelt

Realist Art League Philadelphia

My work is centered on painting from life, and I use red chalk and oil paint. These materials help me translate my experience of the movement of light on a figure and the surrounding atmosphere.

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Killian Everly

Tyler School of Art and Architecture

I paint primarily with oils. I either paint on canvas or primed panels of wood. I will either begin a painting right away or create preliminary drawings beforehand.

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Melissa Halbrook

Realist Art League

My works are in the style of contemporary realism and draw upon four main considerations: composition, form, value, and color. I use oil paint, pastels, graphite, and charcoal.

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Jay Harris

The New York Academy of Art

Using classical realist techniques, I create contemporary oil paintings about my own personal experiences living as a young queer artist struggling with identity

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Jaymie Miller

Studio Incamminati

I mostly use Windsor and newton oil paints. As for techniques, I try my best to use the ones taught to us by my school, such as chiseling out the form and exaggerating the colors you see.

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Anna Romaniuk

realist art league

I use traditional media like oil paint on panel or canvas, graphite and charcoal on paper to make representational work or people, things and places.

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Hailey Stefanov

I graduated in May of 2026 from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University.

I apply oil paint to traditional surfaces like canvas and wood paneling. I focus heavily on color theory and interactions along with material quality to describe the emotion of the work.

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Victor Surbrook

PAFA

My practice is multi-media, I primarily use oils, pencil, and watercolor, as well as decorative ceramic items. I work both observationally en plein air and from imagination in the studio.

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Margaret Tresselt

Temple University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture

My materials revolve around primarily natural mineral pigments that I make from local rocks. In technique, I collect rocks from my environment and turn them into biomorphic, meditative oil paintings.

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Jaime Wiesner

Realist Art League

I create observational paintings and drawings in oil and charcoal using traditional realism methods, ranging from short studies to multi-day pieces of live models, casts, and still life objects.

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Sumi Zushi

Studio Incamminati

I work primarily in oil on canvas and charcoal on paper. I explore light, form, and atmosphere through landscape painting and classical figure drawing.

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