BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:244075@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260911T073903Z DTSTART:20261009T000000Z DTEND:20270328T000000Z SUMMARY:Fifty Years of RALA –\\; Art Exhibit DESCRIPTION:Fifty Years of RALA (Roycrofters At large Association) will c onsist of works created by RALA artisans over the past fifty years. Durin g this period\\, hundreds of artists have been ordained through a selecti on process to join the organization\\, which exemplifies the original spi rit of Roycroft by promoting the use of “\\;Head\\, Heart\\, &\\; Hand.”\\; Objects are identified through artist signatures and the back-to-back “\\;R”\\; monogram\\, which is the contemporary ve rsion of the original Roycroft orb and cross. The exhibition will include a cross-section of artisans from all mediums and includes approximately 28 objects by 23 artisans. Featured in the exhibition will ber Rixford Je nning\\, a fixture on the Roycroft campus through his entire life. The so n of Walter U. Jennings\\, as a young boy Rix delivered mail for the Royc roft. An advertisement once featured images of him and an (already deceas ed) Elbert Hubbard\\, founder of the Roycroft artist community. The sloga n of the advertisement read: “\\;From one long-haired businessman to another…\\;”\\; In 1976\\, Rix became a founding member of RAL A and designed the now-famous R monogram. He was a skilled watercolorist\ \, who. more recently designed cover art for Buffalo Spree magazine. \\n Artists in this exhibition include Tom Pafk\\, Laura Wilder\\, Al Sleeper \\, Tom Little\\, Howard Lehning\\, Ron VanOstrand\\, Dorothy Markert\\, Ann Perry Smith\\, Tom Bojanowski\\, Gordy Galloway\\, Frank Glapa\\, Jul ie Leidel\\, Janicee McDuffy\\, Tom Ciminelli\\, James Miller\\, Christi Shorf Miller\\, Leslie GReen Guilbault\\, kathleen West\\, Thomas Kegler\ \, Greg Adams\\, Yvonne Stoklosa\\, and Rixford Jennings.\\nhttps://www.g ayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/fifty-years-of-rala-821 1-art-exhibit-2026-10-09 LOCATION:visitbuffalo.com URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/fifty-years-of-rala-8211-art-exhibit-2026-10-09 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR