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BRAA President's Update.
Read BRAA President's Update, and,
also, BRAA President's Update.
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A New Call to Artists from the Bower Center.
The Bower Center is having a month long celebration of Latin American Culture. We have a market place planned, a great Latin music concert with Beleza Brasil on October 25th., a cooking demonstration with Latin foods, Latin dances and many other events. We hope to have an outstanding art exhibit to showcase. We are encouraging everyone to delve into new areas and hope that you will join us.
Read Celebration of Latin America.
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Invitation to Artists - Application attached Saturday, July 17th., 2010, 9 AM., to 2 PM., Blacksburg, Virginia.
Virginia Come celebrate Blacksburg's vibrant arts community by participating in this year's Art at the Market presented by Downtown Blacksburg, Inc. with sponsoring support from Mish Mish, Fringe Benefit and The Community Arts Information Office. From 9 am to 2 pm on Saturday, July 17, the Farmers Market area will be alive with the sights and sounds of the annual Breakfast at the Farmers Market and the colorful displays of local artists.
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Jeffrey Allison of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
The presentation by Jeffrey Allison of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is moved to Sunday, June 27th., at 3:00 PM., in the Community Room of the Christiansburg Public Library. The change is due to a conflict with a schedule event.
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Reception for Leslye Bloom, for her show on Computage & Mixed Media on Steroids.
An invitation to BRAA friends to attend a reception, scheduled for Thursday, July 8th, 2010 from 5 to 7 PM., for a show, Leslye Bloom - Computage & Mixed Media on Steroids, at the Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley, 21 West Main Street, Pulaski VA., will be on display from June 21st to July 16th.
There is more information at:
http://www.facnrv.org/FAC/gallery.html
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5th., Annual Permanent Art Collection Competition Finalists and Winners.
The Artists’ Award Reception for the 5th., Annual Permanent Art Collection at The Rescue Mission in Roanoke VA was Sunday, May 2nd., 2010. There were 20 finalists with over 30 pieces of art represented. BRAA and the League of Roanoke Artists have co-sponsored this event since its inception. This year we had five BRAA members as finalists in the competition. The curator of the competition was Professor Alison Hall of Hollins University. She selected the finalists via digital images (without artist’s names) and then, after the art was installed, spent time with the art in place to select the winners of the competition.
Professor Hall treated the assembled crowd with insights into the whys of the selection of several of the winner's works along with some philosophy on the subjective "art" of curating an art show. This was followed with the awarding of Rescue Mission Angel awards. There were 8 curator awards and one people's choice award. Three of the 5 BRAA finalists were selected as winners for 2010. They were: Aileen Fletcher, Sally Mook and Larry Mitchell. Their art will go into the permanent collection at the Rescue Mission. This Collection provides the unique opportunity for local artists' work to be enjoyed and appreciated by homeless families served by the Rescue Mission.
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Pictures from the awards ceremony at Montgomery Museum.
On March 5th., at the opening reception, BRAA presented awards to entries in the annual Christiansburg High School Art Exhibition, held annually at the Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Art Center. Marie Collier and Nancy Norton judged the entries. Nancy presented the following awards:
1st., place: Sara Lane
2nd., place: Gwen Sewell
3rd., place (tie): Avalon McMullen
3rd., place (tie): Katelyn Kast
Marie Collier spent time with the student entrants after the award presentation discussing each artist's entry with the artist.
Both the Museum and the school expressed thanks to BRAA for this welcome addition to the exhibition.
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Winning art by Sara Lane |
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Winning art by Gwen Sewell |
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Winning art by Avalon McMullen |
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Winning art by Katelyn Kast |
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Susan Hensley's solo show at the Holtzman Alumni Center.
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Susan Hensley's solo show at the Holtzman Alumni Center continues through May 31st. Pieces include watercolor
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VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS LECTURE coming to The New River Valley.
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Read Press Release for Lecture, or, at Programs/Speakers page here. |
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BRAA Workshop Opportunity.
Francis Frederick has worked for awhile to get this workshop for BRAA. Details is finalized. I need to get a head count of the people interested to proceed with booking.
This will be a Five Day workshop with Carrie Burns Brown, NWS. The focus of the class with be Color, Watermedia (acrylic) and Collage techniques. More information on the artist and the classes she teaches can be found at YouTube - Watermedia Collage Workshop with Carrie Burns Brown and Color Emphasis/Acrylic/Collage Workshop with Carrie Burns Brown. Which is the class description for a class she is teaching in San Diego. Ms. Brown has taught at the Greenville Museum School of Art and has been on the staff at the Grand-Strand Springmaid Beach Workshop for many years, she also has DVD’s available through Artworkshops.tv and Creative Catalyst. In order to set pricing we need to know numbers and approximate class size.
The Dates are May 23rd., - 27th., 2011.
Please e-mail or call Toni Bowman (540-674-8963, 540-616-8582) if interested. |
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