RAI Annual Meeting
The Ridgewood Art Institute Annual Meeting will be held at the Barn to vote on the 2026-27 Budget and to elect Board Officers and Trustees for those whose terms expired:
President: Suzanne Bochet
Treasurer: Larry Bochet
IT: Kathy Wu Brady
PR: Elena Taylor
Building & Grounds: Jim Nocilla
Membership: Angela Valenti
Following these votes, join the Board for a demonstration by RAI Instructor and master Illustrator, Bill Angresano.
The meeting is open to all members in good standing.
BILL ANGRESANO
A Fine Artist for over 40 years, Bill studied with painters in New York City and began a successful career as an Illustrator. He has worked in a variety of mediums, including pen and ink, watercolor, charcoal, pastel, and oil. Landscape, Figurative, Portraiture and Genre paintings make up the body of Bill’s work. He has created many paperback book cover illustrations working with some of the largest advertising agencies in the world. Bill has also produced illustrations for children and young adult books.
Bill is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the Salmagundi Club Best Landscape by an Artist 45 years of Age (1999), the Frank Vincent Dumond Award for Excellence in Portraiture, the Ogden Pleissner Memorial award for Watercolor, the Oil Painters of America Figurative Painting Award (2019), and the American Impressionists Society Landscape Award (2020).
Bill teaches classical principals of drawing and painting at Montclair University and Ridgewood Art Institute, and hosts various workshop opportunities for artists of all levels at the Newark Museum. His work can be seen in the Boxing Hall of Fame, the Bergen County Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Natural World Museum in California, the Union League Club in NYC, along with numerous corporate and private collections. His liturgical art and art restoration work is found in the Sacred Heart Church in Haworth NJ, Tenafly NJ’s Mount Carmel Church, and the McGivney Center in New Haven as a part of the Sacred Art Institute. His art continue to evolve, transformed and inspired by family and the many friends he has in the art world.
Bill’s demonstration will feature the Frank J. Reilly method influenced by George Bridgeman.