Petersburg's
Friday for the Arts!
Friday for the Arts!
Friday, May 9, 2008
Visual Arts & Performing Arts Venues
Petersburg Area Art League
7 E. Old St., (804) 861-4611, open Tuesday-Saturday, 10:30-2:30, Sunday 1-4
Opening Reception: Main Gallery: The Appomattox Regional Governor’s School’s Visual Arts “Spring Gala.” This is an exciting opportunity for the public to see the varied artwork of talented students from the ARGS. Grades 9 through 12 will be represented with their photography, graphic design, painting, drawing and sculpture. The exhibit highlights the best work done throughout the school year.
William R. McKenney Library
137 S. Sycamore St., (804) 733-2387, open Mon. & Wed., 9-9, and Tues. & Thurs.-Sat., 9:00-5:30
Opening Reception: Lower Level Meeting Room & Gallery: Artistic Ladies Studio, featuring the artwork of Savannah Cabral, Sylvia Wawmer, & Donna Williams. Chesterfield artist Cabral works in oils, as well as various other media. Her work has been featured at numerous sites in the Richmond-Petersburg area. Wawmer, who lives in Dinwiddie, has displayed her work in oils, acrylics, pastels, & colored pencil in many art shows in the Richmond-Petersburg area over the last thirty years. Williams, who was born & grew up in Petersburg, but now lives in Carson, executes pastels inspired by nature.
Old Roses, Barr Brothers, & Kinney Shoes Shops
2, 6, & 8 North Sycamore St., at the corner of Washington St., (804) 733-2828
Continuing Exhibit: “The Faces of Old Towne.” Thirty-five delightful cardboard stand-up portraits fill the storefronts of these three once-regal structures that are currently under renovation by owners Beth & Joe Battiston. Each stand-up represents one or more of the store owners or operators of shops in Petersburg’s Old Towne. The display was photographed by Mel Talley, whose work was recently featured in the Sol Cooper Gallery. Kimberly Ann Calos of Kimberly Ann’s conceived of & designed the project.
Office of Sheriff Vanessa Crawford
Courthouse Square, (804) 733-2369
New Exhibit: TBA.
John Tyler Community College Gateway Outreach Center
218 North Sycamore Street, (804) 862-6420
Continuing Exhibits: Seven very talented John Tyler art students: Martha Brogley (“Found Horizons”—oils); Zita Ellison (“Thematic Realism”); Pat Farris (“Artwork 2006-2007”); Shannon Gilbert (“Anticipation”); Rani Popli-Aibara (“Fauvism Revisited”); Terry Lynn Smith (“Eyes of the Soul”); & Robert L. Wynne (“Photos from Scotland, Summer 2006”).
Kimberly Ann’s
246 North Sycamore Street, (804) 733-2828, www.ilovekimberlyanns.com, Tuesday-Saturday, 10-5
Continuing Exhibits: Resident artist Bridget Copa Nelson adds still more pieces to her Cockade City Collection featuring paintings of Petersburg landmarks on clothing & accessories, & to her Copa Collection. Jessica Nelson Frazier introduces more new creations for spring & summer.
Dixie Diner
250 N. Sycamore St., (804) 732-7425, open Mon.- Sun., varying hours
New Exhibit: photographs of edgy Gothic angels by Kevin Hedgecock..
Live music: Chad Masson (acoustic guitar), 6:00-8:00 pm; Lyn Doak (energetic rock mix), 9:00 pm.-1:30 am.
Cockade City Grill
305 N. Sycamore St., (804) 862-2537
Live Music: Menezerie, 9:00 pm-1:00 am
Longstreet’s
302 N. Sycamore St., (804) 722-4372
Live Music: Zack Artis (acoustic guitar). 9:00 pm.-1:30 am.
Sol Cooper Gallery
306 North Sycamore Street, (804) 240-6859; by appointment only
Continuing Exhibit: Petersburg resident Liz Thompson McCormack will be showing her underwater photography titled “Surfacing.” The show is printed in large format and will be hung on Acrylite plexiglass in the natural and refined setting of the Sol Cooper Gallery. The work comes from a continuing project which was started in the summer of 2007 and was made in the Appomattox River with sister Alex Thompson.
The Oak Antique Mall
400 North Sycamore St. (804) 861-6111, Mon.-Sat., 10-6, Sun. 12-5; Thurs until 8:00 pm
First Floor Gallery, Art Windows: Hand-tinted original & historic photographs by Susan Bock. The show includes several very interesting images of Petersburg.
Free FFTA! Raffle drawing for a gift certificate for The Oak at 8:30 pm.
Java Mio Coffeehouse & Bistro
322 N. Sycamore St., (804) 861-2700, www.javamio.com, M.-F., 7-7, Sat. 8-5
New Exhibit: Duncan Carmichael, an airbrush artist from this area who specializes in motorcycles, will display airbrushed motorcycle parts, skateboards, & lamps. He keeps a booth at the Oak, and paints & creates a number of things trough his Business, Celtic Curves. Light meals until 10:00 pm.
The Pink Scottie
408 North Sycamore St., (804) 957-6112
Continuing Exhibit: Paintings by Marjorie Jackson. She also sells her MARJART line of polymer-clay-based jewelry at the Pink Scottie, through an exclusive distribution arrangement.
Patricia Dillard’s Antiques & Oddities
1 E. Old St., (804) 733-7014, www.patriciadillardantiques.com
New Exhibit: Jeff Seymour: historic photographs of Petersburg streetscapes.
The Retreat Salon & Spa
12 West Old Street, (804) 861-8104
New Exhibit: Photographs by Megan M. Vanderburg, RN, native to Petersburg, who has been going on medical missions every spring since 2004 to Honduras for the Friends of Barnabas Foundation. While there, she has captured many beautiful faces & landscapes.
Maria’s Cafê & Italian Restaurant
16 West Old Street, (804) 862-3100
Live Music: Michael Redman (jazz sax), with Gil Edwards, vocals, 8:00-9:30 pm
River’s Edge
20 West Old Street, (804) 722-0505
Continuing Exhibit: Petersburg Post Office Sub-station #1, which was installed in Frey’s Drug Store on Washington St. around 1900.
Sycamore Rouge
21 W. Old St., (804) 957-5707, www.sycamorerouge.org
New Exhibit: Gallery: Art work by students from Petersburg High School.
Live Performances: On the Stage: Stage Review: Excerpts from the upcoming Governor’s School production. 6:30 pm.
In the Courtyard: The Petersburg H.S. Jazz Band. 7:30 pm.
The Bistro at Market & Grove
424 N. Market St., (804) 732-4480
Continuing Exhibit: Glenda Smith, who grew up in California, lived in Germany & Colorado, & now resides in DInwiddie, will display her paintings, notecards, prints, & photographs. Inspired by her travels, her landscapes (mostly watercolors) & her photographs reflect her gentle love for nature & the outdoors.
Petersburg Regional Art Center
132 North Sycamore Street, (804) 733-8200, www.pracarts.com, open Wednesday-Saturday, 10-4
Opening Reception: Juried May All-Media Show. Juror: Howard Hudgins, who holds an MBA from George Washington University, & has taught at J. Sargeant Reynolds, VCU, & George Washington.
Awards Ceremony at 7:30 pm. Flowers by Flowers & More.
Live Music: Point of Rock.
Opening Reception: Mezzanine Gallery Shows: Vinnie Gonzalez (photography); Glenda Smith (watercolors); Jerome Wiggins (multiple media); Janet Steinberg (watercolors); & Wayne Dodson (oils).
Open House studio shows by 70 artists.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
110 Union St., (804) 733-3415, ext. 2
Concerts by Candlelight: Elaine Bowen, soprano, & Charles Lindsey, Jr. organ & piano, performing vocal & organ music of Bach, Gounod, Faure, Saint-Saens, Schumann, & Schubert. 6:30 pm.
Friend House Gallery & Atelier
27 Bollingbrook Street
Opening Reception: Downstairs in the Atelier: “Color and Light Revisited.” Fifteen new oil paintings by Carol Meese. Painting mostly from rooftops in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, this is her third year working in this artist’s and writer’s Mecca tucked in the Sierra Madre Mountains. The show will include several paintings from a trip to the Galapagos.
In the Kathryn Hedgepeth Atelier: Recent work by resident potter Kathryn Hedgepeth.
Upstairs in the Gallery: additional paintings & bin work by Carol Anna Meese available, surrounded by heavenly scents, beauty gift items, & certificates for massages through the Therapeutic Massage Center.
Therapeutic Massage Center & Boutique
27 Bollingbrook Street (upstairs), (804) 722-1720, open Monday-Saturday, 10-5
Continuing Exhibit: Jerry Harvey, woodworking.
Continuing Exhibit: Sandy Sims & Valerie Phillips, a mother-daughter team from the Petersburg area, present “Spirited Creations.” Their one-of-a-kind jewelry pieces are fashioned from sterling silver, beautiful beads, & natural stones.
Wabi-Sabi
29 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 862-1365, www.eatwabisabi.com, www.myspace.com/eatwabisabi, Tues.-Sat., 11:00 am to midnight; Sun., 4:00 pm to midnight
Continuing Exhibit: Tavern: Portraits by Deanna Watson, a North Carolinian who studied at UNC Asheville & at Wayne State in Detroit. She works with Prismacolor pencils in multiple gray tones, creating composite portraits that are psychological studies based on photographs she has taken, edging into the surreal. She has shown her work previously at Gallery 5, 312 Gallery, & Art Works, where she has won a couple of prizes in the juried All-Media Show, including first place in January of 2005.
Live Music: Tim Be Told, 9:00 pm to midnight. Combining elements of soul, pop, rock, gospel, & blues, Tim Be Told has emerged on the Charlottesville music scene with their own unique sound. Since their first show in the summer of 2007, they have played numerous venues. With each show, the band gains new listeners with their infectious guitar hooks, captivating melodies, & driving rhythms. Don’t miss!
Farmer’s Bank
19 Bollingbrook Street
Special Opening: The Fort Henry Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities will hold a special opening of the banking rooms of the Farmer’s Bank (1817) & its kitchen, from 7:00 until 9:00 pm. The Fort Henry Branch renovated this important building in the 1960s. Be sure to see the bank’s safe & the vault it was lowered into every evening.
New Exhibit: Several of Bessie N. Marshall’s breathtaking watercolors of flora found in Petersburg’s Lee Park, executed in the 1930s, will be shown. With Paintbrush and Shovel, which includes prints of many of Marshall’s floral paintings, & botanical stationary & prints taken from her work, will be offered for sale.
The Gardener’s Gate
12 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 861-3355
New Exhibit: Paintings by Kim O’Shea.
Divine Diva
10 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 861-1181
New Exhibit: “Handpainted furnishings & gifts for the home,” presented by Mary Parks Stegeman, owner of “Bluebeez.”
Paper with Style
8 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 733-0383, www.paperwithstyle.com
New Exhibit: Jewelry by Ellen Marie Murphy, who creates her own lampwork beads from glass rods, adding multiple colors or fine silver to the beads in their molten state & then incorporating them. Also Camilla & Pandora beads.
Siege Museum
15 West Bank Street, (804) 733-2427
Continuing Exhibition: Ground Floor Gallery: “Laying the Foundation of a City: Petersburg’s History to 1815,” an exhibition on Petersburg’s early history, featuring a display of miniature portraits.
Continuing Exhibition: Ground Floor Gallery: “Petersburg’s Lowndes Stoneware.” The Lowndes pottery operated in the Blandford section of town from 1806 until 1855.
The Gallery at Enteros Design
314 Exchange Alley, (804) 861-1200
New Exhibit: Joshua F. Gomez, 188 Squares, a venture into the past. In this exhibit, Gomez explores the possibilities of older photographic processes such as Cyanotypes, Van Dyke Brown prints, and Gum prints. Through experiments with exposure times and toning techniques, he has uncovered hundreds of tonal variations, focusing on colors and textures rather than the incorporation of a photographic negative. Each intricately hand-cut matte design displays a unique interaction between his many tonal results.
Charles Leonard Building
20 W. Bank St., open by appointment
Continuing Exhibit, with all-new pieces: In the windows of the Leonard Building: Work by Midlothian mosaicist Jacki Sowers, who brings a touch of whimsy to the sometimes staid world of mosaics. Includes new work!
Bank Street Gallery
27 W. Bank St., open by appointment, (804) 733-6180
New Exhibits: All new work by Kirsten Kindler, a grant recipient from the Virginia Museum, who works in oils & cut-paper hangings. New oils by Stephen Roebuck, a graduate of U.Va. & Pratt Institute, who teaches at Christ Church School. New watercolors by Petersburg artist Catherine Warnock, who was born in Scotland & lived in California. Her influences are from travel & nature. She is currently studying with Carol Meese. New oils by Petersburg native O. Pollard, who has been painting since 1954.
Purple Passion
29 W. Bank St., (804) 863-1943, open Tues.-Sat., 10-6
New Exhibit: Paw Paintings will be on display this month in the Gallery. Acrylic paintings created by local canines. Just to name a few: Jillian, Copper, Bella, Ayden, Zoey, & Lula Belle have their most creative attempts ever on display. This very special exhibit includes photos of the artists at work. “Paw Paintings” is the official launching of Purple Passion’s new pet section. Area canines are welcome to come & enjoy the art!
Minerva Books
233 Bartow Alley (behind Tantrum Tattoo), (804) 732-2440, www.minervabooks.net
Grand Opening: Celebrating the opening of Old Town Petersburg’s newest shop with book readings and dramatic skits. At 7:00 pm, Sheri Reynolds, New York Times Best-Seller & Oprah Book Club Selectee, will reading from her latest novel, Firefly Cloak. Reynolds will also discuss the novel & sign copies of her work. Before the reading, & probably afterwards, members of the cast of Sycamore Rouge’s upcoming play, Nickel and Dimed, will be performing scenes from the play. Coffee & desserts will be available.
High Street Lofts, Phase Two
High & Lafayette streets, (804) 344-3244
Park or take the bus to the 24 new condos of Phase Two:
New Exhibit: “One Look Is Enough.” About fifteen mixed-media surrealisic & abstract paintings by Rani Scott, who grew up in Germany, studied art in Washingto, D.C., with the Indian painter Ravi Narinda Shante, & the returned to Germany for many successful exhibitions. In 1996, she came back to Richmond.
New Exibit: “Beauty from Ashes.” Photographic images by Jimmy Sadler based on the concept that the most beautiful aspects of people & of nature arise from struggle, pain, & hardship. Sadler, the single father of two daughters, has been a photographer, a pastor, a video producer, an actor, a radio DJ, and a designer. His stock photography is in use in many parts of the world.
Throughout Old Town
The mellow saxophone of Rosshan Monroe, & many other street performers .
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