Side by Side


Friendship, Kinship, and Gratitude
A petite exhibition of artworks by Professors Rita Michalenko & Cheryl Knowles-Harrigan
Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts
22 North High Street MIllville, NJ
COMING IN OCTOBER!
Free and open to the public.
Gallery Hours: TBA
Opening Reception TBA!

Rita Michalenko: Little Buddies and Anguillan Goat
Cheryl Knowles-Harrigan: Diehard and View from Mary’s Beach Chair

Images shown are not indicative of those in the show.

About this show and Rita and Cheryl
There will be a duet exhibition at Riverfront Renaissance Center (RRCA) in Millville with professors/painters Rita Michalenko and Cheryl Knowles-Harrigan. Rita and Cheryl started painting and teaching together at Atlantic Cape Community College when Cheryl was hired part-time in 1992. Rita had been with the college prior to Cheryl teaching ceramics, fundamental, upper-level, and General Education art classes. They have traveled on painting trips to Anguilla, Maine, and Pennsylvania, as well as painting plein air locally. Both have won teaching excellence awards, are full-rank professors at Atlantic Cape, and have been in numerous solo and group exhibitions. We are proud to present our second show together. Please join us.

Our petite feature exhibition is in RRCA’s Associate Artist’s Alcove: 22 North High Street, Millville NJ, adjacent to the main gallery. We invite students, colleagues, friends, and artists to join us in celebrating 30 years of kinship, traveling, and teaching. (Yes, we have known each other for 3 plus decades.) Rita and Cheryl are both Associate level artists at the Riverfront Renaissance Center, and also members of Strobe Southern NJ Visual Arts Collective, and exhibit at many of the same local galleries throughout the South Jersey and Philadelphia area. Rita and Cheryl teach credit and personal enrichment courses and continue to take art workshops. Each artist will be showing a cross section of paintings and sketchbooks. Not a week goes by where they reach out to support each other as educators, artists, and friends.

DATES, TIMES, TBA once it is scheduled. We hope you can join us.

Join us!