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December 1, 2012
New Wall Sculpture for Bay School Winter Faire I have some new sculpture and pins for the Bay School Winter Faire.
I will also be bringing back an old favorite for kids. We have made a limited amount of "Paint Your Own" animal kits. Each kit contains an animal wooden cut-out a set of six paints and a paint brush. |
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August 27, 2012
Handworks Gallery New Work Painting and Sculpture  New sculpture and paintings on view at Handworks Gallery in Blue Hill through September 5th. |
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October 2010
Bearly-There wins Moonbeam Award Tilbury House Publishers has announced that "Bear-ly There," written and illustrated by Rebekah Raye, has won a 2010 Moonbeam Children's Book Award. The book received the Silver Medal in the category of Environmental Issues Book. The winning titles were selected from more than 800 entries. The awards were chosen from books from 34 U.S. States, five Canadian provinces and two overseas countries. The winners were announced Oct. 13. The Moonbeam ceremony will be Nov. 13 in Traverse City, Mich. |
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April 2009
Matinicus Island School Visit Matinicus Island School Visit  There have been many wonderful, exciting and rewarding moments that have come about since becoming a writer and illustrator. One of the most unique and truly moving experiences have come out of the Island Reader and Writers organization. I have enjoyed school visits, connecting with students K through 12 ,helping them to find their own voices through expressing themselves in their drawings and paintings in a story telling format. The school visits to the Islands though have given me more satisfaction than I could ever imagine. I not only enjoy the ferry boat rides seeing all the bird life, seals hauled out on the rocks, amazing views from a 4 seater plane ride 22 miles off the Maine coast with the beautiful clusters of pine and spruce covered rocky edged islands. I love meeting the creative and courageous children and their families who live year round on these Islands. My latest visit to Matinicus Island April 15 was just that special. 6 Children, ages 5 to 12 were swinging and playing in their small school yard when we arrived. The teacher Heather was so gracious and I got set up in the warm and colorful one room school house on a carpeted stage like platform where I placed all of my show and tell materials. The children were able to scoot their chairs all close to where I was sitting ,on the edge of the platform stage. I was able to sit ,look into each of their wide eyed and eager faces and speak about my childhood and early interests in drawing and animals. I could show them pictures ,examples and ask and answer questions in such a comfortable and intimate way. Different than other schools where I present to large groups in a more hurried fashion ,knowing I would only have 45 min. to an hour for each class. I loved getting to know each child by name and individual characteristics and interests. I loved being able to present, demonstrate a drawing technique, have lunch with the teachers as the children went home for lunch. Come back where we ended to complete their drawings then transferred drawings to watercolor paper for a technique that I use in my own work ,ink, watercolor then pastel pencils to finish.  The results were outstanding and the atmosphere for working was quiet and concentrated even for the youngest 5 year old. I signed books that were given to each child and was rewarded by the laughter that came from the funny drawings I would do for each child's favorite animal as part of the signing. They were so appreciative and seemed pleased with their days work. The plane ride back to the main land was thrilling as I sat up in front with the pilot and Jan behind me seeing Matinicus from the air. I will remember that day and hope that the children would continue to work and practice the techniques we talked about. I hope they might do a illustration project involving poetry or short stories that they study and write about and follow up with an illustration using the pen and ink, watercolor and pasteltechniques. I am grateful for the opportunity to be invited to work in this special program and would be so very happy to return in the future. |
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