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Opening for 2022 Annual Juried Exhibition

2022 Annual Juried Show
Friday, October 7th
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Sponsored by Will & Tish Grant

 

Join us for our Annual Juried Exhibition! The opening for the exhibit will take place on October 7th from 6pm-8pm. The show will be on display until October 29th.

The winners will receive the following prizes:

First Place: $800 and a future solo show at Arts on Main
 Second Place: $500

 Third Place: $250

 

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Matt Lively

Matt Lively will be this year’s Juror and Judge. Lively is a sculptor, painter, and muralist living in Richmond, Virginia. He has designed installations, worked on films, and illustrated books. Lively tries to let his work be defined more by an openness to new ideas and opportunities than by working solely in one particular medium. His success over 25 years is a result of learning through mistakes combined with the collective wisdom of others. Collaborating with other passionate people always presents new avenues to explore that Lively believes he would never be able to experience working on his own. Lively makes images that suggest a story without a beginning or end. Learning to stop before the piece reveals too much is the most delicate aspect of his process. When not in his studio, Lively can be found teaching at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School.

 


Live music will be provided by the Clan MacCool Band. 

Clan MacCool is a highly interactive band that specializes in Irish/Scottish traditional music. They offer an array of Celtic traditional (and not so traditional) songs, tunes, and reels. Pulling from old Celtic music, sea chanties and our own music over the course of nearly two decades, Clan MacCool continues to entertain, educate and enthrall!

 

The opening will take place on Friday, October 7th from 6:00pm-8:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. Beer and wine will be available for purchase.

Thank you to our sponsors, Will & Tish Grant!

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September First Friday: Sugar and Spice- Celebrating Women Artists

Sugar and Spice
featuring
Pam Doss, Hanah Hailey, Tomoko Hamada, Kate Horne, Amie Oliver, Kristin Polich, Katie Shaw Sweeney, & Blair Waters
Friday, September 2
6:00pm-8:00pm
Sponsored by Theresa and Troy Stavens

Arts on Main will be celebrating women artists with an all-female exhibit, Sugar and Spice, during the month of September. The show will feature regional and local artists. Sugar and Spice will be on display from September 2- October 1. The exhibit opening will take place at First Friday on September 2 from 6:00pm-8:00pm. This event is free and open to the public.


Pam Doss

   


Hanah Hailey


Tomoko Hamada

   

Tomoko Hamada is a native Japanese anthropologist and professor emerita of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.  She has been painting flowers and plants in watercolor for several decades. She received botanical art training at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and Royal Botanic Gardens Kews in England. Tomoko is a member of American Society of Botanical Artists, and also a Master Naturalist in the Middle Peninsula Chapter of Virginia.

In recent years, she became interested in painting ancient plants of Japan, such as Ohga Lotus, which is included in this Exhibit.  While not so well known in the US, lotus has played a significant role in Asian culinary, medicinal, cultural, and religious histories.   During the 1920s, Japanese botanist, Prof. Ichiro Ohga of Tokyo retrieved ancient lotus seeds from a muddy pond in Chiba, that proved to be more than 2,000 years old. He successfully germinated some seeds and distributed them. Today hundreds of nelumbo nucifera “Ohga” bloom in famous Japanese ponds. Lotus symbolizes beauty and longevity.

Japanese water iris called Kakitsubata or Iris laevigata grows in shallow waters. Kakitsubata has been cultivated in Japan for more than a thousand years and has been the subject of many famous poems and paintings. For example, Ogata Korin (1658-1716) created elegant folding screens of blue-purple irises blooming in golden pond.


Amie Oliver
   

Amie Oliver balances her full time studio practice with teaching and mentorship to artists of all ages.  Her experience teaching painting, drawing and mixed media for the MIS Degree and Studio Arts Foundation Program of Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts , as a lecturer  at  John Tyler Community College and an Associate Professor at Longwood College and Mississippi State University has helped many artists find their way pre and post degree.  She currently offers art workshops and short courses for adults and teens at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and other non-profit art centers. Her private studio consultations for artists of every level are rewarding for both the artist and mentor. Amie’s experience teaching in higher education includes summer courses overseas for Tyler School of Art of Temple University and for Mississippi State University at The Glasgow School of Art as well as weekend courses for The Richard Bland College of William and Mary.


Kristin Polich

   

Kristin Polich is a fiber artist and passionate art educator living and working in Richmond, VA.  She creates delicate fiber pieces that walk the line between drawing and installation.  Polich studied art at Hollins University and has continued her education at Penland School of Crafts during her summers off from teaching.  She is currently teaching art at Saint Gertrude High School.  She has participated in multiple artist residencies and last year had her first solo exhibitions at Artspace Gallery in Richmond and The Petersburg Art League in Petersburg.


Katie Shaw

     

Katie Shaw was born in Asheville, NC in 1974. She began her studies at the University North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. Shaw received a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and a M.F.A. in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Over the past twenty years, she has worked as a practicing artist, educator, and curator. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally. She currently resides in Richmond, VA.


Blair Waters

   

From a young age, Blair always knew she wanted a paintbrush in her hand and bright, bold colors in her paintings. Blair graduated from Winthrop University in South Carolina with a B.F.A. in Art with K-12 certification. She is a Coast Guard spouse and a mother of 3. Moving every few years has allowed Blair to explore different climates, terrains, and cultures across the country. Blair grew up in “the country,” surrounded by family who loved the land they lived on and the God who created it; they passed all along to her. Her work is influenced by where she grew up, the people who have influenced her life, the places she has lived, and in recent years, her role as a mother. Blair has always been fascinated with color and loves using as many as she can in her artwork.


Live music will be provided by Jerry Sowers.

Jerry Sowers is an acoustic singer-songwriter from Newport News, VA. Singing and playing music from the age of 14, he continues to sing traditional as well as original folk music. Audiences enjoy not only his music, but his ability in keeping them both engaged and entertained with song subjects that range from humorous to serious social concerns.
Throughout his career, Jerry has performed in coffee house venues as well as larger auditoriums in several states up and down the East Coast, Ohio and in Michigan. His first CD, ‘Simple and Free’, was recorded and published in 2009 with a balanced mix of original songs and covers.

Jerry’s full-time occupation is teaching music in the Hampton City Schools system, where he has worked with children of all ages to inspire music and creativity in our youth. He also leads the music program in a local Methodist Church in Hampton, VA. Jerry’s two sons and three grandchildren are the pride and joy in his life.

 

First Friday will be held on Friday, September 2 from 6:00pm-8:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. Beer and wine will be available for purchase.

Thank you, Theresa and Troy Stavens, for being our First Friday Sponsors!

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Daytime Adult Paint Class with Kelly Richards: Sea Turtle

Monday, July 25
2:00pm-4:00pm

Kelly Richards will be teaching a daytime adult paint class at Arts on Main on July 25. Students will be painting a sea turtle on canvas with acrylic paint. Kelly will provide all materials.

Cost is $40 per student. 




 

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Senior Citizens Paint Class with Kelly Richards

Monday, June 13
2:00pm – 4:00pm

Join Kelly Richards for a Senior Citizen paint class at Arts on Main. Students will be using acrylic paint to create a painting of a crab on canvas. Images above will be used as inspiration. Kelly will provide all materials needed for the class. Bring a friend and come have a fun while creating a piece of artwork!

Cost is $40 per student. 




 

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Acrylic Paint Pour Class with Hanah Hailey

Saturday, March 5

2:30pm-4pm

Join us for an acrylic pour class with Hanah Hailey at Arts on Main. We are so excited to have Hanah back in the gallery to teach again! She will be introducing one of the acrylic pour techniques. Students will create one-of-a-kind paintings using colors of their choice. Hanah will provide all materials and supplies needed for the class. Bring your friends and have a fun time creating an amazing, abstract masterpiece!

*Students are asked to wear paint friendly clothing that they don’t care getting messed up.

Registration deadline: Thursday, March 3 @ 5pm

 

Cost is $40 per student.




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Adult Paint Night with Kelly Richards: Cow

Wednesday, February 23
6:00pm-7:30pm

Join us for Adult Paint Night with Kelly Richards at Arts on Main. Students will be creating a painting of a cow, using acrylic paint on canvas. Image above will be used as inspiration. Kelly will provide all materials needed for the class. Bring a friend and come have a fun, relaxing night of painting!

Cost is $40 per student.




 

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