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Colonial Beach Oct Art Walk

Hey there, all you artists!! Here's something a little different from us. Looking for a place to hang a show. You won't have much time to get ready but see this from the coordinator of the Colonial Beach Art Walk:

Hello Artists,

  Below please find information about the availability of showing venues for the Colonial Beach Second Friday Art Walks, as well as contact information for the hosts.  We welcome you to attend the upcoming Art Walk on October 10 to check out the scene. If you have any other questions, please contact me.  We look forward to seeing you.

Sincerely,

Susan Smith

Art Walk Coordinator

301-934-1397

susan@cmoments.com

 

 

Available for October, November and December

HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM              

Edna Edmondson /  Art (Buzz) Buzwell  

128 Hawthorne Street  

804.224.3379

 

 

Available November and December

HAPPY CLAM & BAYSIDE MARINA COMPLEX 

Ed & Kay Blunt (Owners),     

POC Gail Moore                                   

Monroe Bay Avenue                                       

804.224.0754 (Gail's home #)                               

gmoore2284@verizon.net

 

 

Available November and December

TIDE'S INN BED & BREAKFAST                   

Meghan Davis                                               

200 N. Irving Avenue                                      

804.224.9352                                                      

MeghanMDavis@aol.com 

 

 

Available October, November and December

THE ESPRESSO STATION  

Jeff & Julie Malecha  

215 Washington Avenue 

804.224.0045 

 

 

Available November and December

THE PLAZA BED & BREAKFAST -

Michael & Joan Fitzpatrick

21 Weems St

804-224-1101

CBPlaza@aol.com

- from the owners: "Christmas is always a very festive time at The Plaza and I know lots of visitors would want to see the B & B decorated.  That alone would bring a huge volume of traffic for whomever the featured artist might be."

Fagan opening in Colonial Beach

Claudia Emerson

Governor Kaine has bestowed yet more recognition on Claudia Emerson and on the University of Mary Washington by appointing Claudia as Poet Laureate for the state of Virginia. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and now she will serve in this new role. In Wikipedia we find the following explanation of the title:

A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events.

Robyn Ryan Reception

REMEMBER AUGUST 23

robyn ryan

"catitudes"

 

4-8:00

RECEPTION

AND SILENT AUCTION

BENEFITING

THE hope house

 

please join us

studio a 1011 A princess Anne st.,.

upstairs..........................

sara irby 368-2120

 

New work up now on River Voices

I have added new work by two Fredericksburg writers to River Voices this morning. I particularly like Collette Caprara's reminiscence and Amy Jenrette's second poem, 'Before The Darkness Settles'. Both they and I would appreciate your thoughts and comments.

All work is copyrighted by the authors.

And then on Monday night at

Bistro Bethem, Medina Roberts opened her new exhibit for August. You really need to see this collection of Medina's energy and imagination. I loved it and even bought one of the paintings myself. Of course it has to stay there in the exhibit until the end of the month but since it's at Bistro Bethem, I can walk in most any night and visit it until I can actually take it home to enjoy.

Here's one that you'll see at this delightful showing:

Colonial Beach

It’s been a hot and humid July with promises of more for August, but the artists have been busy creating new works for all to see.

We have a special artist showing this month at the Griffin Gallery, Larry Southworth from Fredericksburg, who will have more than 20 oil paintings on display,

most of which have been inspired by the water views around the Colonial Beach area.

Mr. Southworth will also be exhibiting the painting that has recently been used as a CD cover

for the Fredericksburg Grammy Award Winner, John Starling.

We also have another visiting artist Ms. Patricia Spitaleri from the Eastern Shore.

As a former gallery owner herself, she will be exhibiting Maryland and Florida landscapes and abstracts at the Jarrett Thor Gallery.

Plus there will be two exciting artists exhibit at Tides Inn, Mr. Gary Duquette and Deborah Booth featuring art of

Japanese fish print making Gyotaku along with their botanicals. Well worth seeing how two artists

 merging together can really complement each other. We also have a new business member this month,

 The Happy Clam on Monroe Bay, who will be featuring Cheryl Crane who does some fantastic driftwood sculptures,

photography and acrylic paintings. This month promises to be an unusual and interesting Art Walk,

so be sure to stop by and see all the new and different things we have come up with.

 There will be maps and brochures available so you will not get lost and of course admission is free and refreshments are often served.

Come and meet our artists. See attached map for artist’s locations.
Click on map for a larger view.

Next week at Liberty Town

Just a Reminder…

Our last session of Summer Kids Pottery Classes begins next week – the week of July 20!  Call us at 371-7255 to Reserve Your Spot

 

Many art classes are offered for adults and kids!

August classes include learning beginning mosaics with Andrea Shreve Taylor, co-creator of beautiful mosaic wall on

Jackson   Street

at Roxbury Mills.  Or try a printmaking workshop with our new artist-in-residence, Elizabeth Seaver. There are watercolor classes and beginning oil painting classes and much more!

See the Summer Class Schedule at www.libertytownarts.com

 

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Join us for our July Acoustic Roots Concert on SAT., JULY 26 at 8 PM

Missy Raines and the New Hip

Tickets: $16

 

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Check out the new blog by our fearless leader, Dan Finnegan:

danfinneganpottery.blogspot.com

 

Thanks!

LibertyTown Arts Workshop Hours:

Mon-Thurs: 10am-7pm

Fri-Sat: 10am-5pm

Sun: Noon-4pm

Nancy Williams Art at Frederick's on Princess Anne St

Nancy Williams is showing oil paintings in July and August at Frederick’s Restaurant on Princess Anne Street.  On display are still life, landscape, figurative, botanical, and animal artwork.

Brush Strokes July Exhibit

BRUSH STROKES GALLERY

JULY UPDATE

Brush Strokes Gallery

810 Caroline Street, Fredericksburg

368-0560 ◊ brushstrokesfredericksburg.com

 

NOTE: SCHEDULE CHANGE:

 

Opening of July Exhibit

Saturday, July 5^th, 5:00 to 7:30 p.m.

 

(A number of Fredericksburg galleries have changed the date of the opening of July’s exhibits to Saturday July 5, to allow attendance at 4^th of July festivities!)

 

Featured Artist: Bob Gibson, master photographer. In his unique exhibit for the month of July, Bob has placed close-ups of an array of flowers on black backgrounds to accentuate their color, structure, and pattern.