This Susan Lockwood photograph I was one of 80 accepted entries out of nearly 800 for the 49th Annual Chautauqua Exhibition of American Arts, Chautauqua, NY.†Louis Grachos, director of the Albright Knox Museum of Art served as juror for the show which ran June 25-July 12.

I want to invite you this weekend to the Roanoke Sidewalk Art Show. This is a regional show that features hundred of Artists from Maine to Florida AND EVEN ME! It starts Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. There are paintings, photos, sculptures a kids' craft corner. Best of all it is free. I have been very busy this year painting and am taking the "plunge" and showing my work this weekend. I'll be on the Fence near Gone Coco at the City Market Building. Please stop by and see me and lend some encouragement! If the feeling moves you, please tell your friends about me. I would appreciate it.

The Art Gallery at Mish Mish presents
Portraits from the Streets - black and white photographs by Tom Pallante.

Reception: June 2 from 5 to 7, the show continues through July 6

*BRAA Merchant Parner

May 31 - August 1, 2006
"Contemporary Florals & Landscape Interpretations"
You are invited to MEET  THE  ARTIST on Friday, June 2nd, 5 - 7pm

Myrtle Hooker and Mary Buck Bryant won second and third overall awards at the Montgomery Museum Arts Festival on May 20, 2006. Mary returned home with 4 ribbons, and Myrtle took three. Preston Thayer, Director fo Radford University Galleries served as juror.

Congrats to Jane Hadad, Susan Young, and Evie Robison, who took awards within media, and to Jean Galloway (holding award ribbons at the right) who coordinated the event. Leslye Bloom took digital photos.

See the League of Roanoke Artists Website for more photos and information.

3 Irons 2 is a Featured Artwork in Susan Ruddick Bloom's Digital Collage and Painting. ISBN: 0240807057, Focal Press, Paperback, Now available ! (May 2006)

This is the first combined showing of these nine artists who paint together on Tuesdays. All of the artists are talented professionals and well known in the area. Members of the group include Carol Bitner, Leighann Boone, Jean Galloway , Ginny Mitchell, Marilyn Perdue, Evie Robison, Karen Schoop, Nancy Stellhorn, and Susan Young . This exhibit is especially interesting because of the diversity of the artwork and the common thread that brings them together.

*BRAA members in RED

Recent Works by Leslye Bloom will be Featured at City Gallery, Galax
Reception: Friday May 5, 2006, 5 to 8 pm. The exhibit runs through May 24, 2006.

The first annual Rescue Mission Permanent Collection Finalsts were announced on March 31. BRAA members among the 33 works included are: Lee Penny Baker, Leslye Bloom, Mary Buck Bryant, Carol Hogue, Aileen Fletcher, Susan Lockwood, Madeline Pauli, Jessica Snow Wirgau, and Susan Young.

The reception, a BRAA Program, will be held April 23, 2006 from 3-5 pm, with the Mission's awesome refreshments, media representatives, collectors, Finalists, as well as BRAA and LRA supporters in profusion.

Ed Dolinger, Head Curator, will announce the first group of Permanent collection artists, and distribute surprise awards to finalists in attendance .

     On Thursday, April 6, 2006 the Blacksburg Museum and Smithfield Plantation 2006 Historic Lecture Series will feature a lecture by Jessica Wirgau, Museum Coordinator for the Town of Blacksburg. Ms. Wirgau will present her talk “To Counterfeit the Soul”: Portraiture at Historic Smithfield" focusing on prominent artists and sitters represented in Smithfield’s collection.
     The lecture will begin at 7:30 pm in the Blacksburg Town Council Chambers, Blacksburg Municipal Building, 300 South Main Street. Admission is free. For further information on the 2006 Historic Lecture Series, please contact Jessica at 540-558-0730 .

Leslye's Bloom's work More  Studio Artists received the Juror's Choice Award sponsored by Progress Printing at the Lynchburg Academy of Fine Arts juried exhibition from juror Susannah Koerber, Curator of the Art Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke. Leslye's piece is also pictured on the invitation postcard at left. The show hangs from March 3 to 31, 2006 at the academy.

BRAA Members Vera Dickerson, Sally Mook and Nancy Newhard-Farrar are among the eighty artists from 12 southern states selected by juror George James for the 29th Annual Southern States Regional Society annual exhibition, on display at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen - Gumenick Family Gallery and Slantwall Gallery in Richmond, VA. Vera's work was pictured on the show invitation!

Maxine Lyons will exhibit her works at the ReMax Real Estate office located at 820 University City Boulevard, Blacksburg, VA. 

There will be a "Meet the Artist" opening at 1PM on Saturday February 18. Her show continues for a month.

From My Heart and My Brush”
Watercolors and Mixed Media Paintings b y Betty Moore
March 3 – March 30, 2006 • Gallery at Mish Mish
125 North Main Street, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060
Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 2006, 5:00 – 7:00 pm

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Jean Galloway and Mary Ann Hinselwood have been named to the 2006 Board of the Montgomery Museum and Lewis Miller Regional Art Cemter in Christiansburg, VA.

BRAA Artists chosen for the Town of Blacksburg 2006 Calendar:

January: Akiko Yamamuro; February:Walling Cyre; May and cover: Carole Carrera Davis; June: Leslye Bloom; July: Lisabeth Weisband; August: David Hutchins; September: Marie L. Collier; October : Leslie Roberts Gregg; and November: Nancy C. Hedges.

The calendar will be available to the public in early December and can be picked up for free at Town sites including the Municipal Building at 300 South Main Street and the Community and Aquatic Centers on Patrick Henry Drive. Anyone with questions can contact .

"It should be a really beautiful calendar this year and I am pleased that so many BRAA members submitted their work."

Jessica Wirgau <JWirgau@blacksburg.gov>