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Felted Bird with Janet Griffin

Felted Bird with Janet Griffin
Saturday, May 13
1:00pm-4:00pm
Teen & Adult Class

Amaze yourself with the dry method of wool felting! Think of your favorite feathers on your animal!  You can construct your very own good luck charm.  A little secret of needle felting will be shared with you! You will mold fluffy wool fibers into three-dimensional shapes. Treat yourself to organic fiber art!

You don’t need to bring a thing! Wool and silk is included. Teacher brings color-full wool, wool yarn, felt needles, mat and beads.

Cost of class is $60 per person. 

Registration deadline is Thursday, May 11 by 5pm.

 




 

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April 2023 First Friday: “Beginninglessness Endlessness” by John Latell

April 2023 First Friday: “Beginninglessness Endlessness” by John Latell

Friday, April 7

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Sponsored by Martin, Ingles & Hensley

      

During the month of April, Arts on Main will host a solo show featuring the work of John Latell. The show will open on Friday, April 7th at our First Friday event and will run through April 29th. John Latell graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University as a sculpture student. Latell’s work with metal is a blend of variable nature, the creative impulse, and effort. Metal, as a structural material, is a full three-dimensional pallet for sculpture. He worked in Pittsburgh for more than ten years, building large-scale sculptures in steel mills, public spaces, and galleries. Since then he has owned and operated a metal art studio for more than a decade in rural Virginia. The work he does is reflected in the patterns of the land and humanity’s efforts to harness them.


Live music will be provided by Louis Vangieri.

Hailing from Williamsburg, Louis C Vangieri has over a decade of experience playing out Virginians’ stresses, easing his listeners into a state of existential acoustic bliss with his instrumental folk renditions and original songs.

He performs an awesome blend of folk, country swing, pop-rocker, traditional, soft jazz, peaceful new age, classical, nostalgia and well written original instrumental works. Taking influences from the Beatles, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Pat Metheny, Laurence Juber, Peter White, Jim Croce, Al Stewart, Alexi de Grassi, Chet Atkins and crafting his own style of rhythmic songwriting. Lou Vangieri is currently actively composing, arranging for guitar, recording and performing in Williamsburg, VA.


First Friday is Friday, April 7 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Beer and wine will be available for purchase.

Thank you to our Monthly Exhibit Sponsors,
Martin, Ingles & Hensley!

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Beginner’s Pine Needle Basketry with Becky Butler

Beginner’s Pine Needle Basketry with Becky Butler
Thursday, January 26
12:30pm-4:00pm

Learn to create a beautiful, one-of-a-kind, pine needle basket! In this class, beginners can learn the basics of pine needle basketry and complete their own mini pine needle basket with nut slice center. Students will be choosing from a variety of centers, dyed and natural pine needles, and a rainbow of threads. More advanced students can expand their skills by learning different stitches or adding beads. All supplies will be provided by the instructor.

Cost of class is $65. 




 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

“One of the things I love about coiling is that I feel like I am working with the materials. Pine needle baskets have their own “voice.” I may start out with a definite plan, but eventually the materials tell me what they want to do, and the final product feels like a collaboration. As a pine needle artisan, my goal is to work with a variety of natural materials and textures to create a surprising work of art which can be both practical and transporting.”

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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 following artists will be featured in the

2022 Annual Juried Show Exhibit:

Gulay Berryman

Joy Black

Anne Brooks

Bob Carlson

George Cramer

Ellen DeMaria

Carolyn Thompson Dudley

Mary Ellis

Holland Wentz Etheridge

Dolores M. Flessner

Elizabeth Flint

Michele Garrigan

Karyn Gallion

Rebecca Grow

Patrice Hobbs

William Hoffman

Mary Ellen Huennekens

James Warwick Jones

Joann Sybil Lawson

Gayle Barbara Merrill

Mel Neale

Ian Pearce

Peg Poole

Juli Schuszler

Karen Schwartz

Mary-Montague Sikes

Janet Southard

E. Sue Sprague

Georgia Sprague

Theresa Wells Stifel

Brenda M. Sylvia

Sarah Wicker


Winners will be announced at the opening. The following prizes will be awarded:

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

 Third Place: $250

 


Matt Lively

Matt Lively is 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, & 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

   

Pam has always experienced the world through her hands as much as through her other senses. This is especially true of her artmaking, where process and experimentation are as important as the final product. Working with clay, especially raku firing, is a balance of control and chaos that appeals to Pam’s need for both order and freedom. Pam’s day job as Executive Director at the Bay School Community Arts Center provides an environment which nurtures her creativity, as she spends her days nurturing others’.


Hanah Hailey

Hanah Hailey was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia and has been creating paintings ever since she could hold a paintbrush. Hanah currently lives on Gwynns Island and finds inspiration all around her; especially through the ocean and the colors of the sunrises and sunsets. She believes that art can heal people and the whole purpose in creating art is to relax and cope with life’s struggles.


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.


“Arranging to Art”
Sogetsu School of the Middle Peninsula

Join us at our September First Friday for this wonderful display of floral arrangements interpreted by the students of the Sogetsu School of the Middle Peninsula.


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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February First Friday: HOT HOUSE by Gabrielle Teschner

February First Friday

HOT HOUSE by Gabrielle Teschner

Friday, February 4
6:00pm-8:00pm
Sponsored by Riverwood Designs

 

Arts on Main is pleased to host works by Gabrielle Teschner during the month of February 2022. This exhibit will be on display February 4 until February 26.

Gabrielle Teschner is an artist currently living and working in Richmond, VA. Raised in Gloucester, she received a BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MFA in Sculpture in the San Francisco Bay Area from California College of the Arts, where she lived for 12 years. Her artwork is in collections nationally and internationally including the De Young Museum in San Francisco, Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, the Ritz Carlton Washington D.C., Google San Francisco, Goodtime Hotel Miami, Soho House Istanbul and Soho House Malibu, and the private collection of Ed Ruscha, among others. Teschner’s “Sculptures-That-Are-Flat” are composed of stitched, individually painted planes, using the symbolic language of architectural forms and of natural forces to demonstrate the expressive power of spatial relationships. She is represented by Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA and Tappan Collective in Los Angeles.

Artist Statement

“I destroyed the block to make way
for space. The guiding way of
being is reduced to rubble. The
forms of time and fact are open to
change. Stay the course of finding
new ways of thinking nothing.”

This statement was arranged by selecting words and parts of sentences excerpted from an August 2015 NY Times T Magazine article titled “History Has No Place” concerning Japan’s habit of tearing down and replacing revered buildings.

 

“All of this for me, all of the references to architecture and math and humidity, are a way to talk about being in the world. An affirmation of existence or the inability to do so.”

 

 

 

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 is February 4th 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 First Friday Sponsor,

Riverwood Designs!

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🌸 Spring has sprung! 🌼 Join us at Arts on M 🌸 Spring has sprung! 🌼

Join us at Arts on Main for these fun spring art classes coming up! 

🌸 Tuesday, April 4th at 6:00pm - 8:00pm, Ronda Bowden will be teaching “Adult Paper Flower Class with Ronda Bowden: Daffodil Place Card Holders for Spring and Easter Entertaining”
Sign up here: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/adult-paper-flower-class-with-ronda-bowden-daffodil-place-card-holders-for-spring-and-easter-entertaining/

🐰 Thursday, April 6th from 5:30pm - 6:30pm, Kelly Richards will be teaching “Kelly’s Kids: Easter Bunny (Ages:6+)” 
Sign up here: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/kellys-kids-easter-bunny/

🌼 Tuesday, April 11th from 6:00pm - 8:00pm, Ronda Bowden will be teaching “Adult Paper Flower Class with Ronda Bowden: Daffodil”
Sign up here: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/adult-paper-flower-class-with-ronda-bowden-daffodil/

☔️ Thursday, April 13th from 6:00pm - 7:30pm, Kelly Richards will be teaching “Adult Paint Night with Kelly Richards: Rain Boots” 
Sign up here: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/adult-paint-night-with-kelly-richards-rain-boots/

🌷Tuesday, April 25th from 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Kelly Richards will be teaching “Daytime Painting Class with Kelly Richards: Jar of Flowers” 
Sign up here: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/daytime-painting-class-with-kelly-richards-jar-of-flowers/
Don’t forget that tomorrow is the reception for Don’t forget that tomorrow is the reception for our 2nd & 3rd grade Palette Pals! 🎨🖼️🖌️

Join us for a reception featuring 2nd and 3rd grade Palette Pals from 6pm-7pm on March 23, 2023. Each participating student will have a piece of artwork on display. People’s Choice Awards will be awarded to one student from each school. Stop by the gallery to vote early for your favorite artwork or cast your vote at the reception before 6:30pm. 

The gallery is open Wednesday- Saturday from 12pm-5pm. Winners will be announced at 6:45pm the night of the reception.

For more information on Palette Pals: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/palette-pals-reception-featuring-2nd-3rd-grade-palette-pals/
Last week to view this spectacular work! “Bet Last week to view this spectacular work! 

 “Between Layers,” featuring artwork by grandmother and granddaughter duo, Rose Nygaard & Aprille Zammit, will be on display at Arts on Main until April 1st. 

For this collaboration, Aprille travelled from her studio in Malta, Europe, to Gloucester, Virginia in 2022 to spend three weeks creating work together with Rose. “Between Layers” is a body of work in which the two artists played off each other’s different styles and backgrounds of working. Rose begins with colour, and Aprille begins with composition. Both artists layer the two to make their work. Rose and Aprille hope the work will ignite joy and lightness in the viewer.
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Everyone had so much fun in Janet’s felting clas Everyone had so much fun in Janet’s felting class! Janet will be teaching another felting class on Saturday, May 13th. She will be teaching students how to create a felted bird! Stay tuned for more info! 

For more information/to sign up for Janet’s class: https://gloucesterarts.org/event/felted-bird-with-janet-griffin/
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