Arts on Main

Community Arts Center in Gloucester, Virginia

5th Annual RiverJam

Music ● Food ● Beer & Wine 

Special thanks to our RiverJam Sponsors… Platinum: Hugh and Barbara Bryan ● The Cook Foundation ● Riverside Walter Reed Hospital ● Mr. and Mrs. E.Claiborne Robins, Jr. ● Chesapeake Bank ● Mathews Pharmacy ● Gold: The Inn at Warner Hall ● H. Stone Digital Solutions ● Connie and Bill Fulton ● Water Pro, Inc. ● Nuttall Country Store ● White Marsh Shopping Center ● Virginia Country Real Estate ● Yolanda’s ● Silver: Nester Dental ● Ron and Kacki Haggerty ● Village Landscape LLC ● Gloucester Brewing Co. ● Freedom Rentals ● Gloucester Graphic Design ● C. Eric Altizer Photography

Ticket and T-Shirt Sales

Our 5th annual River Jam will take place at the historic Channelside, in Mathews County, thanks to the generosity of the owners, Drs. Barbara Allison-Bryan and Hugh Bryan. Enjoy food trucks, beverages, and more while you jam to live music by an eclectic variety of bands.

This has been a sold-out event in past years with nearly 400 people in attendance, so tickets will be limited. No tickets will be available at the door so make sure to get yours now! Please, no pets allowed on the premises.

Food and Drinks

  Music

How to Become A Sponsor

You are invited to support Arts on Main to help achieve its mission of creating a vibrant art center serving the entire community. Sponsorship opportunities include publicity, event recognition, tickets, and more.

We appreciate your support and participation and encourage you to visit us in person!

Images courtesy Sara Harris Photography

Artist in Residence Concert: An Afternoon with the The Bergamot Quartet

Join us for An Afternoon with The Bergamot Quartet, our current Artist in Residence! The Bergamot Quartet will be playing at Arts on Main THIS SATURDAY from 12:30pm – 1:30pm.

Seating is limited and many reservations have already been made! To reserve your spot, call the gallery at 804-824-9464 or email gallerymanager@gloucesterarts.org. Reservations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. We cannot guarantee a seat if reservations are not made.

This is a FREE event.

Art & Flowers – First Friday CANCELLED

In response to the developing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Arts on Main has decided to cancel the April 3rd First Friday event.

 

Our Annual Art & Flowers exhibit during the Daffodil Festival is one that combines the world of visual arts with floral arts to create a show bursting with color and blooms.

Join us on Friday, April 3rd from 6pm – 8pm for beautiful florals and live music from The Tidewinders!

First Friday events are free and open to the public, with beer, wine, and paninis for purchase.

April’s First Friday event is sponsored by Ron & Karen Flowe

Tulips by Rebecca West

Two Views in the Tidelands: The Works of Carolyn Dudley & George Jennings

Our November exhibit features the work of local artists, Carolyn Thompson Dudley & George Jennings. The joint exhibit showcases the local landscapes of the beautiful areas surrounding us in Gloucester.

“My artwork comes from my perception of landscape and the people around me.”

-Carolyn Thompson Dudley

“Art, in one form or many, has always been in the back of my mind, often finding its way forward to be examined and  practiced.”

-George Jennings

Live music by Lori De los Santos and John Sullivan with special guest, Bill Gurley

Lori de los Santos is a singer/songwriter who lives in Gloucester, Virginia. With her husband, John Sullivan on bass, she plays acoustic songs from all genres of music including folk, blues and Americana as well as some of Lori’s original songs.

Lori has been playing guitar and writing songs since the mid-1970’s, influenced by artists such as Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Billie Holiday, Lead Belly and Flora Purim. Currently, Lori is performing and touring with Virginia Beach singer/songwriter, Mark Rogers, as part of his band. Her harmony vocals are featured on Mark’s new 2019 album “Laying It Down.”

John Sullivan has been studying bass for the past five years and is performing with local musicians as well. He decided that after years of being a “roadie” he wanted to play!

First Friday is on November 1st from 6pm-8pm and is free and open to the public, with beer, wine and paninis available.

Friday Sponsored by Theresa & Troy Stavens

kathy klein: “Women’s Worlds”

“Women’s Worlds” an exhibition by artist kathy klein will be in the gallery for the month of May.

Klein has always been drawn to abstraction where form and color take over. In her heart, she is a descendant of the Fauves, those color-mad French painters from the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth century. Her paintings have been called “poetic” and “lyrical.”

Klein says: “My work grows out of the issues facing women in the world. Drawing on my experience as a teacher of women’s studies. I read deeply and widely in what­ever subject which has caught my attention. This early immersion in the ideas allows me to paint freely later. My continuing challenge is to deconstruct women’s verbal narratives and reinscribe them visually without resorting to unmediated representation. Visually, my mixed-media paintings are evocative rather than naturalistic. Layers of color predominate whether paint or collage elements, challenging or lyrical. Hard and soft edges play off each other in the same place. The work leaves ‘gaps’ to be filled in by the viewer using hints and suggestions found in the abstract forms. Although the works suggest a literal meaning, they can also be read metaphorically. Even though I usually work in a series, each of the works has individual and specific resonance. And, when shown together, they play off each other for a cumulative effect.”

See more of kathy’s work at www.kathykleinstudio.com

Paige Melton

Live music will be provided by Paige Melton, a classic folk musician who plays the hits from the 60’s and 70’s.  Her repertoire consists of Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Janis Joplin and James Taylor in addition to a number of popular artists from more current decades. 

The opening is free and open to the public, with beer, wine and paninis available.  The exhibition runs for the month of May.  

First Friday sponsored by Yolanda Teschner

The opening is from 6:00pm-8:00pm and is free and open to the public, with beer, wine and paninis available. The exhibition runs for the month of May.

Larry Burnett & Don Chapman – Music on Main Concert Series

Larry Burnett

Recently inducted into the Colorado R&R Hall of Fame, Firefall’s Larry Burnett is one of the fortunate few who have the ability to look at the world around him and reflect it back to others in song.

At 23 years old, with many songs in his arsenal, he joined a group of fellow musicians and formed Firefall. The band, including Burnett, developed a pop-rock-midwest country sound, in the tradition of Crosby, Stills and Nash, the Byrds and the Eagles’ early recordings. Touring with such acts as The Band, Doobie Brothers and Fleetwood Mac, “Firefall” became Atlantic’s fastest album to sell 500,000 copies and eventually sold six multi-platinum albums.

Larry Burnett’s most recent release as a solo artist is 2009’s “Guitars and Vocals.” The CD also features Burnett’s musical partner Don Chapman on backing vocals and accompanying guitar, with whom Burnett regularly performs live in concert. Recorded in Virginia, “Guitars and Vocals” includes retakes of several tracks from “Confidence Game” as well as several new compositions, all written by Larry Burnett.

Don Chapman

35 years of professional musical experience as a solo artist, performing in duos and in bands touring, recording, composing, and performing, Don Chapman is a musical fixture in the mid-Atlantic region and has performed on many national stages, including hundreds of Native American events and festivals. He is well known for his acoustic 6 and 12 string prowess and his exploits also include “sideman” services for other singer/songwriters serving as a lead guitarist and harmony/backing vocalist both live & in the studio. In 2009 Don and Larry Burnett teamed up and recorded “Guitars & Vocals” which features Larry’s songwriting, vocals, and the duo’s harmonies.

 

Doors open at 6:30, Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door