8 April 2016 Program of Events

Image © copyright Dolly Holmes
8 April 2016 Program of Events
April Friday for the Arts! Features Great Shows at The Ward, Walton Gallery, The Art Room, the
Library, and PAAL, Music from Six until One,—and Soft Spring Breezes
The April 8, 2016 Friday for the Arts! brings us the continuing promise of spring, as well as music, art, entertainment, fun activities, food, refreshments, spirit, and spirits. There will be music in at least nine performing arts
venues, and there will be great exhibits at Walton Gallery, at The Art Room, at The Ward Center for Contemporary Art, The Morena Bohemia Gallery, the Bistro, the Library, and the Petersburg Area Art League.
The Library will feature a new exhibit by the Gholson family, entitled R. Jehrad Gholson, Jr., His Concussion Story TBI. The Ward continues an important new installation by Rosamond Casey of Charlottesville,
entitled Men in Suits: A Day on the Hill, as well as no fewer than ten other gallery exhibits, including work by
Carol Meese, Bonnie Koenig (with new work installed), Bobby English, Jr.,, Mary Montague Sikes, James
Timberlake, Clifton Dickens, Dolly Holmes, Mark Pehanich, Risegun Bennett-Olomidun, Aimee Joyaux, and Terry Ammons, as well as at least twenty-five resident studio artists. There are new exhibits by Rod
Givens in The Underground #1, and by Tina & Nicole Roark in Union Alley #45. Walton Gallery will be
continuing FrameXFrame, featuring the photography of Anthony Barboza, Adger Cowans, Jarvis Grant, and
James Haskins. The Art League will be opening two exhibits: Fragments, by Jasmine Mills, and Currents, by
Elizabeth Longstreet Titmus. The Art Room will continue exhibits by resident artists, and will be featuring
still more of the Petersburg Portraits by Lisa Mistry. In addition, exhibits of work by Joey Northrop will be on
display at Andrade’s and at the new Morena Bohemia Art Gallery, and the latter will be exhibiting work by
Tina Maria Richardson and Keith Andre as well. An exhibit of new work by Pat Harvey will continue at The
Bistro. A retrospective exhibit of work by Ken Graves will be shown at Abigails Antiques & Other Diversions, along with the Sweet Dixie’s line of local crafts. The Bucket Trade will exhibit refillable growlers painted
by artists from The Ward, for sale at the Bucket Trade, benefiting the Art League.
Battersea Foundation will hold a Wine Tasting and Book Signing, featuring the highly respected food
historian Nancy Carter Crump, formerly of Petersburg, at the McIlwaine House. Steve Gay will set up his
Studio 54 Photo Booth, and The Bucket Trade will offer wines and beers to accompany the food, at The Ward.
Tantrum Tattoos will be offering free henna tattoos.
The headliner among the performing acts this month is jazz singer Meli, performing at Sixteen West. The
Center Stage Band will be performing at The Ward, The Roxbury Band at Old Towne’s Alibi, Rudy Faulkner
& Friends at Croaker’s Spot, the Sinatra-style crooner Joe LaLuna at Maria’s, Steve Brooks and Shelly Bonet
(fresh from still another European tour) in the Martini Lounge at Wabi Sabi, and Sayer McShane in the Music Room at Wabi. Bobby Horne will be playing the acoustic guitar at Abigails. And Triple B will be performing on the patio or, more likely, inside at Andrade’s. Music this month from six to one!
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Web Site and Facebook Page
Go to the Friday for the Arts! website at www.fridayforthearts.net for full particulars about the upcoming Friday
for the Arts!, including news stories, more photographs, background information, and an opportunity to send us
a suggestion. There you can also view or download a pdf of this flier. And go to our Friday for the Arts! Facebook
page for changes and corrections even up to a few hours before the event.
The Art Trolley for Friday for the Arts! Is Back!
The Friday for the Arts! Art Trolley is back! From six until ten, it will circuit the Downtown on a loop that will
go past the evening’s main attractions. Its regular daytime Downtown Loop service has already begun, looping
around Downtown Petersburg, with excursions to Virginia State University and Southpark Mall. 6:00-10:00 pm
during Friday for the Arts!
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Petersburg Public Library
201 West Washington Street, (804) 733-2387, www.ppls.
org
Opening Reception: New Exhibit: No Signal: R.
Jehrad Gholson, Jr.: His Concussion Story: T.B.I.
Former Matoaca Warriors football standout #33, R.
Jehrad Gholson, Jr., had dreams and goals of playing
college and professional football. In October, 2010, his
dreams were cut short when he suffered a traumatic
brain injury—from a severe helmet-to-helmet blow
to the head—during a regular-season game against
Colonial Heights. Gholson has always also enjoyed
art, and placed second in his first All-Media Juried
show at the Petersburg Regional Art Center in 2006.
In collaboration with his sister Sarai and his mother
Dannielle, he and they attempt in this exhibit to share
a colorful, abstract, and pixelated view into the world
of missing signals for people diagnosed with traumatic
brain injuries—TBIs.
Second Hand Rose
11 North Sycamore Street, (804) 733-5050, Tues.-Sat., 12:00 Noon-5:00 pm
Continuing Exhibit: New Permanent Exhibit: Virginia Stores of the Past. New exhibit of La Vogue stores
of Tidewater Virginia, Richmond, and Petersburg. Miller & Rhoads, Thalhimer’s, Rucker-Rosenstock, The
Globe, Wice’s, and other Virginia stores. Memorabilia as well as clothing will be on display. Framed prints from
old postcards from the collection of Russell Davis. Virginia Stores of the Past Reference Library, with books on
Petersburg and Virginia. Items are being added to the exhibits every day. Gwen’s vision is being realized!
New Exhibit: Fashion and Memorabilia from Ardley, which was a store for ladies on Grace Street in
Richmond, showcasing designer fashions. Don’t miss! 6:00-9:00 pm.
Walton Gallery
17 North Sycamore Street, (804) 732-2475, www.waltongallery.com, Thursday & Friday, 3:00-6:00 pm, Saturday,
noon to 2:00 pm, and by appointment
Continuing Exhibit: FRAMExFRAME, a group photography exhibition featuring Anthony Barboza and
Adger Cowans, of the world-famous Kamoinge photography group, Jarvis Grant from Washington, and James
Haskins of Richmond. Curated by gallery director Eric Walton. 6:00-9:00 pm. This is a great exhibit.
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art
132 North Sycamore Street, (804) 793-8300, www.thewardcenter.com, Facebook: The Ward Center for Contemporary
Art
Continuing Exhibit: Mezzanine Gallery an Vestibule Window: Men in Suits:
A Day on the Hill. An installation by Rosamond Casey, of Charlottesville.
Men in Suits: A Day on the Hill is a visual parable of power and its trappings.
This installation of ten photomontages overlaid with painted Plexiglas and
arranged in sequence, traces an odyssey through the streets and halls of Capitol
Hill. Additional small, framed snapshots of figures in suits serve as rhythmic
counterpoints to the larger panels, and walk the viewer through a shadowy world
of fragile moments where men are poised to exert their influence. The images were
arranged into ten sequential panels that perform a Stations of the Cross allegory.
Beginning with Initiation and ending with Enter the Blue Dawn, the images are a
meditation on the human fragilities of power structures that bring on cataclysmic
change or compromise.
The male suit is a successful adaptation that has survived centuries of finetuning and minor variation with no fundamental breakdown of its form and
function. By design it expresses an unassailable authority while concealing a
myriad of behaviors. When the fabric folds at the joints the suit can suggest a
predatory strike, gathering energy for a spring to action, then it reclaims its perfect
columnar structure when the wearer stands. There are bird-like qualities in a
moving suit—a raucous flapping of leg folds against a wind, a tail feather turned
up, an alternation of openings and closings. When the folds collapse in the course
of things it can go limp and soft. These dark grey glyphs are so known to us they
go unnoticed, but the actions and inactions they enclose reverberate.
Raised in Washington, DC, by men in suits (father, uncle, stepfather [Ben Bradlee], grandfather) in the
1960s, Rosamond Casey returned home carrying a point-and-shoot camera to see what the men in charge on
the Hill were up to. She followed them in and out of conference rooms, hotel lobbies, Senate buildings, offices
and chambers. Casey has worked as an artist for more than twenty-five years. She has exhibited her painting,
calligraphy, book art, and gallery installations widely. Her solo exhibitions include the Burroughs-Chapin Art
Museum, Myrtle Beach; Triangle Gallery, Washington DC; McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville; and the
University of Virginia Art Museum. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Museum
for Women in the Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where she was the featured artist
and speaker. Her work is represented in a number of prestigious public collections in the United States, such
as those of the National Gallery of Art, The Melbert Cary Collection Graphic Arts at the Rochester Institute
of Technology, and the Library of Congress, in additional to private collections in such places as Canada, New
York, Los Angeles, and South Africa, where her work is part of the Jack Ginsberg Collection of Artist’s Books
in Johannisberg.
Casey has produced numerous unique artists’ books as well as four editioned artist’s books that reconfigure
her fine art installations into handmade enclosures that display images and accompanying text from her
shows. Her original art projects have been published in national journals such as Virginia Quarterly Review,
Calligraphy Review, Art Directions magazine, and Archipelago, an international online literary magazine.
Casey is a past president and member of the McGuffey Art Center and founder of Treehouse Book Arts in
Central Virginia, through which she has encouraged a revival in the arts related to the hand-made book and
taught numerous art seminars that convey her unique process-oriented approaches to drawing, mixed-media
painting and sculpture. She lives in Charlottesville.
A limited-edition, hand-made artist book complements the installation. It can be seen in one of the vestibule
windows.
Through July. Don’t miss!
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibit: Front Display Windows and The Underground: “Presence, Soul, and Existence”: An
Exhibit of Steel Sculpture by Bobby English, Jr. English, who lives in Baltimore and Petersburg, received a
BFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2011, and studied at the Studio Art
Centers International in Florence, Italy. He creates empowering, yet self-destructive metal and earth sculptures
inspired by world mythologies, ancestry, identity, dreams, and the dualities of nature. The exhibit at The Ward
Center focuses on his steel sculpture. His process is very laborious and exhausting, yet it is meditative and
spiritual. While creating sculpture, and even after completion, there is a dialogue happening between the form
and English’s body. The dialogue ultimately becomes mystic, almost ritualistic, thought-provoking performances
that he feels are channeled from the many mythological archetypes that he understands both from his own life
experiences and those of his ancestors. English wants people to be inspired to connect with the divine nature
within themselves, their personal mythologies, and be comfortable in the expression of their divinity, their true
selves. The goal of his art is to create an atmosphere for conversation, understanding, and ultimately compassion
for all people. “Darkness within darkness. / The gateway to all understanding.” —Tao Te Ching. Don’t miss!
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibit: Front Display Windows, The
Ward Underground: “Passenger to Paradise,” features
never-before-exhibited new work by central Virginia
artist Mary Montague Sikes. Color and texture
define the work of painter and photographer Sikes.
After growing up in Fredericksburg, she a degree in
psychology at the College of Mary Washington, but
took art classes as electives. She later received an art
teaching license at the College of William and Mary,
where she discovered sculpture and acrylic paints.
Working both in oil and acrylics, she earned an MFA
in painting from Virginia Commonwealth University.
An award-winning artist and author, Sikes has
exhibited nationally and internationally and has taught
students on all levels from kindergarten to college. Her
photographs and articles have been published in many
newspapers and magazines throughout the United
States and the Caribbean. Each year she enjoys taking
workshops with well-known artists. The College of William and Mary Law Library, NationsBank, Crestar Bank,
Philip Morris, Riverside Women’s Health (Williamsburg), Super Clubs (Kingston, Jamaica), National Museum
of Women in the Arts, One Capitol Square (Richmond), and Media General are among public and private
collections that include her work.
Continuing Exhibit: “Abstractions from Nature”:
Carol Meese, who will be exhibiting her nineteen
paintings, large and small, in the Grand Gallery, is no
stranger to Petersburg. Formerly a psychologist in the
Richmond Public Schools, Meese has studied art at
VCU, in Florence, and in several other places around
the world. She has traveled widely, and her work has
been richly influenced by these travels. She has also
exhibited and been collected in many disparate parts
of the world She came to the Petersburg Regional
Art Center when the Shockoe Bottom Art Center
moved there in 2003, and she soon had (with her
son Mark Sprenkle) renovated the Friend House
and had opened Wabi-Sabi and the Friend House
Gallery, which featured her work. But her passionate
turn toward abstraction is likely to be unfamiliar to
Petersburg art lovers. She calls the work she will show
here “Migrations,” as it is inspired by the migrations
of birds on the Outer Banks, where she spends much of
her time today when she is not traveling. There, in the
minimal but elemental landscape of the beach, invigorated by the collision between realms that is ever evident
there, she is freed, she says, to express herself with paint in a gestural, guttural way. We are all the richer for it.
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
New Exhibit: “Abstractions from Nature”: Bonnie Koenig, who will also be exhibiting her work in the Grand
Gallery, is a Virginian who is featured artist at the Chasen Gallery in Richmond. Her paintings, she says—especially the work she will exhibit at The Ward—find their inspiration in landscape, water, and the atmosphere,
using color and mark-making to create depth and light, movement, and the feeling of a place. Her work has
been deeply informed by a challenge from a professor at the University of Kansas at Lawrence to begin feeling
her painting, and to experiment. This challenge led her to the ancient medium of encaustic, which permits her
to develop the rich layering she always works toward in her art. But she hasn’t stopped there. Today, she often
makes her marks with unconventional tools, such as string, kitchen spatulas, and cement trowels. And she sometimes goes beyond that, mixing media which resist, even conflict with one another, in order to see what the clash
produces. The work that results from all of this is compelling. Don’t miss!
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Live Music: Center Stage Band, playing jazz and R&B.. This Richmond band has been playing in many venues
in the Richmond-Petersburg area for several years now.. 6:00-9:00 pm. Don’t miss!
Special Event: Wines & Beers by The Bucket Trade to accompany the fine culinary offerings of Oakley’x
Catering.
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibit: The Ward Underground: West
Gallery: Work by Dolly Holmes and Mark Pehanich,
who moved to Petersburg fifteen years ago from
Brooklyn, where they both studied art and exhibited.
They have recently completed new studios nearby on
Sycamore Street. Holmes, who hails from Northern
Virginia, has exhibited in Richmond at the Eric
Schindler Gallery and in Petersburg at The
Walton Gallery, as well as other places. Her brightlycolored abstract compositions are enriched by the
use of encaustics. Pehanich works both in sculpture
and painting, in various media, but recently more in
acrylics on paper on wood, or directly on wood panels,
sometimes carved. His work has been featured at
several area galleries, including The Walton Gallery
in Petersburg, and his sculpture at the Arboretum in
Chesterfield County. Don’t miss!
Continuing Exhibit: The Ward Underground: East Gallery: Works on Paper by Aimee Joyaux, who grew up
in Hawaii, but studied art and skiing in Oregon, where she received her MFA at the University of Oregon. Not
immediately finding a position working in art, she was a ski instructor before moving to Ball State University,
where she taught art. There, she met her husband, Alain Joyaux, who directed the university’s art museum. About
a decade ago, they moved to Petersburg, where they have restored a large former cotton warehouse on Sycamore
Street for their home and her studio. Since her move to this area, she has taught at the Appomattox Regional
Governor’s School and served as the Director of Education at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond. Today she
is Associate Dean for Instructional Resources at Richard Bland College. She has exhibited her photography
and her art widely, including several galleries in Chicago, at the Quirk Gallery in Richmond, and at the Walton
Gallery and the Petersburg Area Art league in Petersburg. Don’t miss!
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibition: The Ward Underground:
Boiler Room Galleries: Delicato: An Installation
by Terry Ammons and Little Monster Studios.
Terry Ammons grew up in Colonial Heights,
studied architecture at Virginia Tech, and has
practiced architecture for many years now in
Petersburg. He has always been particularly
interested in interpretive exhibits, including the
installation of art. He recently worked on the reinstallation of the entire collection at the Chrysler
Museum, and has directed the development of
major interpretive programs, such as the Moton
Museum in Farmville. All along, he has been
producing art, and has had two major exhibits at the
Petersburg Area Art League. At the Ward Center,
he will be exhibiting a remarkable installation of
steel sculpture in the Boiler Room Galleries at the
western end of the Ward Underground. Through
January. This installation has been greeted with great
acclaim by those who have seen it. Don’t miss!
Studio Receptions: The Ward Underground Studios: Rod Givens (#1), who will be opening an all-new exhibit
of his newest work; Waltraut “Trudy” Dunn (#2); Yeshav Basnight (#5); Elizabeth Longstreet Titmus (#
6); Blake Washington (#11); Brenda Spencer (#19); Kimberly Schofield (#22); Wayne Swatlowski (#23);
Samuel Selasi Agbenyeke (#24); Jack Hayes (# 25); Sandra Morton (#26); Marcia Sutherland (#28); Clyde
Trent (#29); Lester Wetsch (#30); Jasmine Mills (#33)
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibit: The Union Alley Galleries: West
Gallery: Work by Risegun Bennett-Olomidun, who
grew up in Ettrick, but studied art at the University of
Cincinnati and Columbia College in Chicago, from
which he holds an MA. He has exhibited his work
in Chicago, in Cincinnati, and in the RichmondPetersburg area, most recently at he Petersburg Area
Art League. He has also managed an art gallery, and,
while in Chicago, was involved with the City’s public
art program. He uses many media, even making his
own African drums, and plays them with several
groups. Don’t miss!
Special Event: Studio 54 Photo Booth Night: Steven Gay, of
Steven.G Photography, will be offering a Photo Booth during Friday
for the Arts! this month. Steve will provide 4”x6” prints, available
immediately, for $3 each, for all comers, individuals or groups. His studio
is set up with backdrops and props, and he suggests wearing funny
costumes, or just coming as you are. 6:00-9:00 pn.
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Studio Receptions: The Union Alley Studios:
Terry Oakley (#37); Heather Graham (#38); Michele
Kuznick (#39); Art on Wheels (#40); Dulaney Ward
(#41); Felice Washington (#44); Sandi Nardone
(#46); John Rooney, Jr. (#47); Salome Curry-El (#48);
Christopher Alexander (#49); Kathy M. Williams
(#51); Clifton Dickens (#52); Helen Allen-Taylor,
Suzette Flowers, and LaJuana Washington (#53);
Steve Gay (#54); and Kathy M. Williams (#55).
Haute House Boutique
123 North Union Street, (804) 590-7941, FB: Haute
House Boutique, Mon., Tues., and Thurs.-Sat., 10:00 am5:00 pm
Friday for the Arts! Opening: Designer Da’Vid
Montoya brings you luxury designer women’s and
some men’s apparel and accessories. All the best apparel
brands, top designer, vintage. Photography and runway
samples. Luxury imported heath and beauty products.
Custom design services and wardrobe styling. 6:00-9:00
pm. Don’t miss!
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Morena Bohemia Art Gallery
244 North Sycamore Street, FB: Morena Bohemia Art Gallery
New Exhibit: The Art of Joey Northrop: Northrop is an artist and
professional photographer residing in Petersburg. She like to describe
my art as a form of storytelling. A self-taught artist, ever since her
first experience in high school with acrylic paints she knew she had
found a lifelong love. Because of certain life events she was unable
to attend formal training classes; but that did not put an end to her
pursuit in the arts, and she recently dedicated herself full-time to
her art. She uses multiple media, including digital rendering, but
her favorites are watercolors and soft pastels. .She loves painting
whimsical mermaid stories and cultural art reflecting distinct
cultures and time periods. It is her hope that everyone who views her
artwork will identify with its story or at least walk away with a smile.
In addition to the Morena Bohemia Gallery, some of her work is
currently displayed at Andrade’s International Restaurant.
New Exhibit: Work by Tina Marie Richardson.
New Exhibit: Work by Keith Andre.
Art Underfoot
On the sidewalks in the 200-block of North Sycamore Street; for information call Kimberly Ann Calos at (804) 5861633, or email her at [email protected]
Public Art: Original works of art created by some of the premier artists in the area—on historic Old Town
sidewalks. More than fifty artists have painted 60-plus concrete “canvasses” with designs ranging from abstract
to realistic, creating a carpet of color that connects Old Town to the newest venues for local art further south on
Sycamore Street. The artists range in age from infant to 70 and are a kaleidoscope of backgrounds.
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Abigails Antiques and Other Diversions
246 North Sycamore Street, (804) 722-0905, FB: Abigails Antiques and Other Diversions
New Exhibit: Celebration and Exhibit of the Work of Ken Graves, the much-loved teacher who taught art at
Petersburg High School for years.
Live Music: Bobby Horne on the acoustic guitar. 6:00-9:00 pm.
Sweet Dixie:
Continuing Exhibit: Jewelry by Rae Jean of Chesterfield
Continuing Exhibit: Jewelry by Lynne Stanley of Crystal Creek Express
Continuing Exhibit: Jewelry by local artisan Tre Rockenbach
Continuing Exhibit: Owls by Elizabeth Thacker
Continuing Exhibit: Petersburg bracelets by local artisans at Wayward Arts
Continuing Exhibit: Wooden wine stoppers, pens, & oyster knives from local artisan Steve Hearn at Steve’s
Sawdust
Continuing Exhibit: Wooden cutting boards from local artisan Phil McClure
Continuing Exhibit: Pottery by local artisan Bruce Hanson.
Continuing Exhibit: Mosaics of Petersburg buildings created by Appomattox Tile Art.
Charles Leonard Building
20 W. Bank Street
Storefront Windows: Continuing Exhibit: Pamplin Park exhibits.
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Tantrum Tattoos
235A Bartow Alley, behind 116 West Bank Street, FB: Tantrum Tattoos LLC, Tues.-Fri. 1:00-8:00 pm; Sat. 11:00
am-8:00 pm; Sun. 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Special Event: Henna Tattoos.
The Bucket Trade Is Beer
116 West Bank Street, (804)621-2337, www.
thebuckettrade.com, Tues.-Sun., Noon-7:00 pm; second
Fridays to 9:00 pm
Special Event: Exhibit and Sale of Reusable Growler
Art. Artists from The Ward Center for Contemporary
Art have turned beer growlers into one-of-a-kind
usable and re-usable art. All proceeds from the sale of
the growler art will benefit the Petersburg Area Art
League. The growler art can be brought back for refills
from any of The Bucket Trade’s twelve taps of craft beers. Don’t miss! Participate in this community art event!
Therapeutic Massage Center & Boutique
257 East Bank Street, Suite B, (804)722-1720, open
Monday-Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-5
Open for Friday for the Arts! at the New Location.
New Exhibit: Allegorey Jewelry. Original Designs by
artist Nancy Hendry. Earrings and Necklaces ( Jasper,
Agate, Turquoise, and more).
New: Santa Rosa Plantation Wildflower Honey. Local and Organic.
Continuing Exhibit: Original, one of a kind, boldly designed jewelry containing semi-precious stones & fresh
water pearls by Dr. Cynthia Richardson of Cyn’s Rich
Designs. Summer scarves, decorative flip flops, turquoise necklaces, earrings, and woven beaded bracelets.
Continuing Exhibit: Jerry Harvey: Master Work in
Wood. Carved wooden bowls and vessels.
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Old Towne’s Alibi
305 North Sycamore Street, (804) 479-3566, FB: Old
Towne’s Alibi, Wednesday-Thursday, 11:00 am-12:00
midnight; Friday-Saturday, 11:00 am-2:00 am; Sunday,
11:00 am-4:00 pm
Live Music: The Roxbury Band (soul, funk, blues,
R&B, classic rock)), featuringMorgan Stewart on
percussion and vocals, Phil Walker on keys and vocals,
Chris Harrisson on bass, and Larry Jones on drums.
8:00 pm-midnight. Don’t miss!
Mitchell Store & Dwelling
316 North Sycamore Street
Interactive Public Art Exhibit: Old Town
Petersburg “Before I Die” Wall. On the
evening of August 20, artist-members of
Public Art Petersburg completed the Old
Town “Before I Die” Wall, and interactive
chalkboard on the Sycamore Street sidewalk near Bollingbrook Street, complete
with available chalk. Even before they had
finished painting, a crowd had gathered
and had begun writing responses. Anyone,
young or old, rich or poor, can respond
to the prompt, “Before I Die, I want to .
. . , by joining with hundreds of others in
Petersburg and hundreds of thousands of
others around the world, in a public communal expression of both distinctly personal and deeply human aspirations and wishes and hopes for the future. By the time Friday for the Arts! begins on the evening of November
13, Public Art Petersburg will have recorded the responses and washed the wall down six or seven times, and
it keeps filling up again almost immediately. Since artist Candy Chang created the first “Before I Die” Wall in
New Orleans in early 2011, more than 500 “before I Die” walls have been created in more than 350 cities, in
65 different nations, in 36 different languages, on all of the continents and many islands. Public Art Petersburg
is recording all of the responses and posting them on the “Public Art Petersburg” Facebook page. Soon, many
of the images will be posted on the worldwide Before I Die website maintained by Candy Chang, on the page
“Walls around the World.”
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Andrade’s International Restaurant
7 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 722-0344, www.andradesinternational. com, Sun.-Mon. & Wed.-Thurs., 11:00 am
-9:00 pm, Fri.-Sat, 11:00 am-10:30 pm
New Exhibit: Paintings by Joey Northrop.
Continuing Exhibit: Work by Petersburg artist Paul
Penrod.
Continuing Exhibit: Work by Hopewell artist Jeannie
Cameron.
Live Music: Triple B: The Better Blues Band. 8:0011:00 pm.
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The Art Room
10 Bollingbrook Street, FB: The Art Room, www.theartroompetersburg.com, Tues.-Sat., 11:00 am -4:00 pm
New Exhibit: Petersburg Portraits, by Lisa Mistry.
She has completed and is displaying about twenty of
the forty or more sPetersburg Portraits she set out to
paint.
New Exhibit: Work by Local Artist Keith Andre.
Continuing Exhibit: Paper mosaics by Sandhi Schimmel Gold, whose work has been exhibited in many solo
exhibits around the nation.
Continuing Exhibit: Paintings and other work by Lisa
Mistry, artist, writer/illustrator, set designer, seamstress,
and builder of things.
Continuing Exhibit: Ceramic art by Ally Stallcup, a
graduate in Ceramics from the Maine College of Art.
Continuing Exhibit: Tiles on canvas by the artistic
team of Ibby and Ommie.
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Wabi-Sabi
29 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 862-1365, www.eatwabisabi.com, Mon.-Thurs., 11:00 am to 9:00 pm; Fri-Sat.,
11:00 am to 12:30 am, or until . . . .
Continuing Exhibit: Music Room: More Musical
Photography by Petersburg’s Jez Beasley. Don’t miss!
Continuing Exhibit: Tavern: New Work by Sally Valentine. Her new work is really great! Don’t miss!
Live Music: DJ’s Martini Lounge: Steve Brooks and
Shelly Bonet, who has just returned from a tour of
Germany. 7:00-9:00 pm. Don’t miss!
Live Music: Music Room: Sayer McShane, a Research-Triangle-based band. Featuring Kristin Sayer on
lead guitar and Carolyn McShane on drums. A danceable, rockin’, funky, Motown feel, richly steeped in the
blues. 9:00 pm to 12 midnight. Don’t miss!
McIlwaine House
425 Cockade Alley
Special Event: Wine Tastin and Book Signing. Virginia food historian and author Nancy Carter Crump,
formerly of Petersburg, will discuss food and cooking
trends in the eighteenth century. She will have her
latest books, Hearthside Cooking and Dining with the
Washingtons, available for sale and signing. Wine: $7.00
for a taste of four wines, or $7.00 for a glass of wine.
All proceeds will support the mission of the Battersea
Foundation.
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Croaker’s Spot
39 River Street, (804) 957-5635, Mon.-Wed., 11:00 am9:00 pm; Thurs., 11:00 am-10:00 pm; Fri., 11:00-11:00
pm; Sat., 12 noon-11:00 pm; Sun., 12 noon-9:00 pm.
Continuing Exhibit: Large recent painting of Nina
Simone, with a jazz & blues theme, by S. Ross
Browne, who was born in New York, raised in Richmond & Charlottesville, and studied Communications
Art & Design at VCU & Photography at the Corcoran School of the Arts. Other work by Browne is also
exhibited.
Live Music: Rudy Faulkner & Friends, the Richmond
jazz band. Faulkner, one of the Richmond area’s favorite
vocalists, performs with a changing cast of musicians,
recently including Carl “Chico” Lester-El on bass,
Charlie Kilpatrick on keys, and Devon Harris on
drums. Latin-inflected jazz. 7:00-10:00 pm. Don’t miss!
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Petersburg Area Art League
7 E. Old St., (804) 861-4611, www.paalart.com, open
Wednesday-Friday, 11 am to 5 pm, Saturday 10 am until
4 pm.
Opening Reception: New Exhibit: Main Gallery:
Fragments, by Jasmine Mills. A collection of multimedia works. Using acrylic, glass, mirror and spray
paint, Mills created fifteen pieces on canvas that inspire
viewers to re-examine art from new angles. “There is
a story to be told and a potential not yet discovered in
everything,” says Mills. “Fragments is inspired by the
desire to reinterpret the common perspective. The manner in which we perceive something is relative to the
angle at which it is viewed,” explains Mills, who was
born in Petersburg. She works predominantly in the
medium of paint but also film, computer graphics, large
installations, and various multi-media. She is mostly
self-taught and took advantage of the art program at
Petersburg High School. Jasmine was accepted to the
Art Institute of Washington, DC, but elected instead
to start her own business. Since 2006, she has owned
and operated ArtHouse7 Designs (formerly X Customs). She produces work for clients and sells original
pieces through her studio website, and enjoys showing
her work at local galleries. Mills spends her time creating her original work, commissions and illustrations at
her home studio and her studio at The Ward Center for
Contemporary Art. Through May 2.
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Petersburg Area Art League (continued)
Opening Reception: New Exhibit: Virginia Linen Service Members Gallery: Currents, by Elizabeth Longstreet-Titmus. Currents features approximately twenty acrylic and oil paintings, all focused on water. Elizabeth
started painting later in life. She spent most of her working with numbers, first at First & Merchants Bank in
downtown Richmond, then across the street at the advertising agency, Siddall, Matus & Coughter. After almost thirty years in accounting and finance, she worked her way up to CFO at Siddall. She loved working at
the agency because she was surrounded by creative people, but she never imagined she was an artist herself. She
says she had no idea that she would ever be a painter. Then, one summer, she and her sisters visited the Petersburg Area Art League. Art classes were being offered, and her sister encouraged her to give it a try. Since, she
has taken many classes and won numerous awards. Her favorite subjects are drawn from life: places that she
loves, landscapes, wildlife, birds, her koi, and people she loves as well. One great example is based on a photo of
her grandparents taken in the early 1900’s, brought to life in colors she imagined from that time period. “I was
always inspired by my father because he was so talented in so many ways—music, drawing, building—doing
almost anything with his hands. I always wished I could be like him,” she says. She concludes about finding her
way into art: “My dad inspired me and my sister encouraged me.” Through May 2.
New Exhibit: Education Gallery: The art of Homeschooled Students from around the area who have participated in our Thursday Art Classes. “Cool Kids Create!” is a compilation of work from elementary and middleschool-aged children who stepped out of their comfort zones and created a wide range of art using inspiration
from art and artists over the world. Works inspired by ancient blue and white glazed pottery in China, paintings
by Sonya Delaunay, Miro, molas inspired by the Kuna Indians of Panama, and more will be on display throughout the month. Through May 2.
Sixteen West
16 West Old Street, (804) 733-9378, Facebook: Sixteen West, Tuesday-Saturday, Noon-10:00 pm, every other Monday
is Blues Monday, 6:0-9:00 pm
Special Event: An Evening of Meli. sThe soul-inspiring vooice we all know and love. $13.29-21.49.7:30 pm.
The show will be repeated on April 9 at 7:30 pm.
Continuing Exhibit: Paintings by Gus Dickens and Sistah Beanz.
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Maria’s at Old Town 21 Ristorante Italiano
21 West Old Street, (804) 862-3100, (804) 862-3114,
www.mariasoldtown21.com, Facebook: Maria’s at Old
Town 21 Ristorante Italiano, Mon.-Thurs. & Sat., 11:00
am-10:00 pm; Fri. 11:00 am-10:30 pm.
Live Music: Joe LaLuna, who sings Sinatra-style vocals. LaLuna grew up in New York City and on Long
Island, where, as young adult, he had a thirteen-year
career as a wedding and event singer, performing at
more than 3,000 weddings and dinner-dances. Today,
living in the Richmond area, he has taken up singing
again, performing the music he loves. 6:30-8:30 pm.
Don’t miss!
The Bistro at Market & Grove
434 N. Market St., (804) 732-4480, Tues.-Thurs., 11:am-9:00 pm; Fri.-Sun., 11:00 am-10:pm; Sun., 11:00 am3:00 pm for brunch.
New Exhibit: New Work by Pat Harvey. Don’t miss!
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A Timeline for the Evening:
5:00-10:00 pm
Pat Harvey (exhibit) at the Bistro
5:00- pm-2:00 pm
New Exhibit of work by Chelsea Kerwath at Old Towne’s Alibi
5:00 pm-2:00 am
6:00-10:00 pm
6:99-8:30 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
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6:00-9:00 pm
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Old Town Petersburg “Before I Die” Wall (interactive public art) on Sycamore opposite
Bollingbrook
Art Trolley making its rounds
Wine Tasting and Book Signing, with Nancy Carter Crump, at the McIlwaine House
No Signal: R. Jehrad Gholspn, Jr.: His Concussion Story: T.B.I. (exhibit) at the Library
Bobby Horne on acoustic guitar at Abigails
Retrospective exhibit of the work of Ken Graves at Abigails
Henna Tattoos at Tantrum Tattoos
Center Stage Band at The Ward Center for Contemporary Art
Studio 54 Photo Booth Night at The Ward
Studio Open Houses at The Ward
New Exhibit by Rod Givens in The Underground #1 at The Ward
Bobby English, Jr. (exhibit of steel sculpture) at The Ward
Men in Suits: A Day on the Hill (new installation by Rosamond Casey) at The Ward
Continuing exhibit featuring Carol Meese and Bonnie Koenig) at The Ward
Continuing exhibits (Aimee Joyaux, Dolly Holmes, Mark Pehanich, Terry Ammons,
Risegun Olomidun, Mary Montague Sikes, James Timberlake) at The Ward
Beverages offered by The Bucket Trade at The Ward Center
Haute House Boutique
Exhibits by Joey Northrop and others at Morena Bohemia Art Gallery
Petersburg Portraits by Lisa Mistry (exhibit) at The Art Room
New Work by Keith Andre at The Art Room
Fragments by Jasmine Mills (exhibit), and Currents by Elizabeth Longstreet Titmus
(exhibit) at PAAL
6:00-9:00 pm
Exhibition & Sale of Reusable Growler Art at The Bucket Trade
6:30-9:00 pm
Joe LaLuna (Sinatra-style vocals) at Maria’s
6:00-9:00 pm
7:00-9:00 pm
7:00-10:00 pm
8:00 pm-midnight
8:00-11:00 pm
FRAME X FRAME (exhibit) at Walton Gallery
Steve Brooks and Shelly Bonet performing in the Martini Lounge at Wabi-Sabi
Rudy Faulkner & Friends at Croaker’s Spot
The Roxbury Band at Old Towne’s Alibi
Triple B at Andrade’s
9:00 pm to midnight Sayer McShane (blues-inflected rock) in the Music Room at Wabi-Sabi
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