Friday for the Arts!
12 June 2009
Program of Events
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: “Loves Letters”—featuring work by Terry Wilson, who has more than twenty-five years of experience in advertising and design, developing national and international campaigns for some of the world’s leading corporations, including Kodak, Lotus, Corning, and Intelsat. He has also created advertising for several causes such as AIDS awareness, homelessness, and heart disease. Lovers Letter” is a series of more than fifty pieces ranging from the serious to the ridiculous, all relating to what is said to make the world do round—love. One of his most important pieces is the poster, The Black Inventor. Don’t miss! 6:00-9:30 pm.
Land Mindz, Inc.
201 Liberty Street
New Exhibit: Art by ex-offenders and current prisoners.
Musical Theatre: Showtime ‘n’ Petersburg, consisting of excerpts from playwright Shelton Land’s riveting musical play, Road to Redempshun, which has been performed by ex-offenders at the Lincoln Center and at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk. First annual fund-raiser.
Augustus Wright Block, South Building
17 North Sycamore Street
Continuing Storefront Window Exhibit: “Clean Sweep.” Ron Walton, an internationally-known abstract artist born & raised in New York City, presents this large, vibrantly colorful, traffic-stopping work made from plastic bottles, cans, wood, PVC piping, wire, & tennis balls.
Stories n’ Storefronts
1, 11, & 110 North Sycamore St.
Continuing Storefront Window Exhibit: Number 11 will use the photographs of William Lum, Jr., to tell the story of his career in the ‘40s.
Continuing Storefront Window Exhibit: The windows in Number 110 contain an exhibit entitled “A Touch of Hollywood—Fashion Designs & Finds by Daphne Maxwell-Reid.” Well-known for her role as Aunt Viv on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” Maxwell-Reid is also a fashion designer.
Continuing Storefront Window Exhibit: Number 1 will have an exhibit of prints enlarged from Petersburg Postcards, courtesy of Russell Wayne Davis, showing images from Halifax Triangle to the river, as well as VSU. Look for the opening soon, in this location, of 2 Dots, a restaurant offering Southern cuisine.
Petersburg Regional Art Center
132 N. Sycamore St., (804) 733-8200, www.pracarts.com, open Wednesday-Saturday, 10-4
June All-Media Juried Show: Main Gallery: Juror: Michelle Delano, professor of art at Richard Bland College, who also works with visiting artists at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Don’t miss!
Awards Ceremony: 7:30 pm.
Live Music: Rippleshot (rhythm ‘n’ blues), 7:00-7:30, 7:45 until . . .
New Exhibits: Mezzanine Gallery Shows: Marvin Averett (photography); Pat and Jerry Harvey (mixed and wood work); Steven Roebuck (mixed); Allen Stone (oils and acrylics), Terry Lynn Smith (oils), & Paula Barnes (mixed).
Ongoing Exhibit: Mezzanine Gallery: Landscapes by Wade Hampton Goodwyn, III.
Open House studio shows by more than 100 artists.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
110 Union St., (804) 733-3415, ext. 2
Live music: Concerts by Candlelight: Bryan Sheetz Steel Drum Ensemble, 6:30 pm. Don’t miss!
Office of Sheriff Vanessa Crawford
Courthouse Square, (804) 733-2369
Continuing Exhibit: Paintings & sketches by Erin Copeland, 15, a tenth grader at Prince George County High School who has enjoyed art since her early childhood taking her first lesson at Michaels. She has studied art as a PAAS art student as well as taken classes at the Virginia Museum of Art in Richmond. She has had several of her works on display at PAAL and PRAC where she has a membership, at Crossroads Art Center in Richmond, and at Java Mio, the Dixie, & the Bistro, where her show “Banned at the Bank” can be seen this month.
Dixie Diner
250 N. Sycamore St., (804) 732-7425, open Mon.-Sun., varying hours
Continuing Exhibit: New photographs of Civil War reenactors by Kevin Hedgecock.
Live music: Open jam, 7:00 to 9:00 pm; Dewey Via & Rita, 9:00 pm to 2:00 am. Late Night Breakfast served until 3:00 am.
Siege Museum
15 West Bank Street, (804) 733-2427
Continuing Exhibit: Ground Floor Gallery: “Let Children Be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine’s Crusade against Child Labor.” Photographer Lewis Wickes Hine was hired in 1906 by the National Child Labor Committee to document the harsh working conditions of children in the United States. He spent the next ten years photographing children in canneries, coal mines, cotton mills, farms, and sweatshops throughout the country. The fifty-five black and white images by Hine included in the exhibit reveal the appalling circumstances that poor, working-class children endured until legislation against child labor prevailed. The exhibition is organized by the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. The Eastman House contains nearly 10,000 of Hine’s original photographs, negatives, and artifacts. The photographs are modern silver gelatin prints. Many of them are superbly compelling examples of the photographer’s art Don’t miss!
Continuing Exhibit: Ground Floor Gallery: Petersburg and Richmond-Area Images of Lewis Wickes Hine. A separate display includes photographs taken by Hine during his June 1911 visit to Virginia. These images from the Library of Congress document child laborers in Petersburg cotton mills and cigarette factories, newsboys hawking newspapers on the streets of Richmond, and living conditions in the mill village of Matoaca. Don’t miss!
Continuing Exhibit: President Taft’s Petersburg Visit, May 19, 1909. Photographs and artifacts relating to Taft’s visit, and postcards and photographs showing Petersburg in 1909 from a 1909 Petersburg publication.
These exhibitions are part of a series of events sponsored by the Petersburg Museums to commemorate the centennial anniversary of President William Howard Taft’s May 1909 visit to Petersburg. Throughout 2009, the Museums will host exhibitions and programs on topics related to early twentieth century history.
Book Signing and Presentation: Local writer James T. Fleming will make a brief presentation pertaining to his debut novel, Southern Dreams: Broken and Fulfilled. The 6:15 pm presentation will be followed by a book signing. Fleming deftly mixes fact with fiction in this touching story about love, family, war, regret, and reconciliation from 1858 through 1868, a time a great suffering in America.
Charles Leonard Building
20 W. Bank St., open by appointment
Continuing Exhibit: In the storefront windows: Work by Midlothian mosaicist & Petersburg High School graduate Jacki Sowers, who adds, as a part of this wonderful display, “School Spirit,” a mosaiced mannequin couple, representing a PHS couple from the 1950s & 1960s.
The Gallery at Purple Passion
29 W. Bank St., (804) 863-1943, open Tues.-Sat., 10-6
New Exhibit: “Paw Paintings,” back by popular demand. Abstract acrylic paintings by Petersburg’s artistic canines, with photographs of the artists at work.
New Exhibit: Colorful, whimsical portraits of dogs and cats by artist Marion Grizer, from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, who will take commissions for portraits of your pets. She also will have with her the handcrafted wooden bangle bracelets she creates
Minerva Books
223 Bartow Alley, off W. Bank St. behind the Boisseau-Wiley Insurance Agency (116 W. Bank St.) & Tantrum Tattoos, (804) 732-2440, www.minervabooks.net, open Tues.-Wed., Fri.-Sat., 11-6, Thurs, 11-7
Book discussion and signing: Local author and VSU professor Hubert T. Alexander will discuss the process of writing his praise book, God’s Awesome Handiwork. The coffee-table-quality book features images of inspiring trees taken by Alexander in the eastern United States, and paired with appropriate scripture. 7:00 pm.
Cockade City Grill
305 N. Sycamore St., (804) 862-2537
Live Music: TBA, 9:00 pm-1:00 am.
The ArdenBarry Gallery
9 East Bank Street, Corner of Maiden Lane, behind Cockade City Grill & The Gardener’s Gate
The Affordable Art Show. Inexpensive works by various artists from $30 to $300.
Longstreet’s
302 N. Sycamore St., (804) 722-4372
Live Music: R.D. Blanton, 10:00 pm until 1:00 am.
Java Mio Coffeehouse & Bistro
322 N. Sycamore St., (804) 861-2700, www.javamio.com, M.-F., 7-7, Sat. 8-5
Opening Reception: Bold photographs by Tom Peterson, who is a freelance photographer from Macon, North Carolina, who specializes in wildlife and subjects of a historical nature. His work is currently on display at the Lakeland Theater in Littleton, North Carolina. This month’s exhibit will feature a selection of matted and framed photographic art in sizes from 15x21 to 18x24. The photographs are unchanged in post-production except for cropping and increasing contrast or saturation.
Live music: Jim Adkins (jazz), 6:30-9:30 pm.
The Oak Antique Mall
400 N. Sycamore St. (804) 861-6111, Mon.-Sat., 10-6, Sun. 12-5.
New Exhibit: “Gardiner’s Art”—a collection of unique Garden Art and Bird Feeders created by Petersburg resident Joan Gardiner. Found objects, including bowls, platters, cups, plates, door knobs, and architectural elements are her favorite media for her artworks,.
Friend House Gallery & Ateliers
27 Bollingbrook Street
Continuing Exhibit: Downstairs in the Atelier: Recent Paintings by Carol Anna Meese. 7:00-9:00 pm. Don’t miss!
In the Kathryn Hedgepeth Atelier: Recent work by resident potter Kathryn Hedgepeth.
In the Cathy Warnock Atelier: Recent work in paint by Cathy Warnock.
Upstairs in the Gallery: additional new 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: MARJART: handcrafted jewelry, necklaces, earrings, & bracelets, by Marjorie Jackson.
New Exhibit: In the Gallery: New work by Carol Meese.
Wabi-Sabi
29 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 862-1365, www.eatwabisabi.com, www.myspace.com/eatwabisabi, Tues.-Thurs., 11:00 am to 9:00 pm; Fri-Sat., 11:00 am to 12;30 am, or until . . . .
Continuing Exhibit: Paintings by Sally Valentine, a self-taught Richmond artist who believes in creation of art through the release of energy. Vibrant colors and brush strokes work together to create a stimulating palette. Valentine’s work has been shown previously at several First Friday Artwalk events in Richmond.
Continuing Exhibit: “Flock Together”—new work in mixed media by Elizabeth Thacker & Liz Saval.
Live Music: Cashmere Jungle Lords. This Richmond trio (Dominic Carpin on guitar & vocals, John Dacey on bass, guitar, & vocals, & Todd Woodson on drums), led by Carpin from the beginning, is a “freaky whacked out band” that’s been around for more than two decades, getting its start in an upstairs Oregon Hill apartment in 1984. Called by College Music Journal “one of the South’s best-kept secrets,” the band plays what they call “Southern-fried salsa surfabilly,” or ”western surf jungle rock.” The play electric music in a somewhat standard bass guitar & drum format, but also deliver an acoustic “swamp set” incorporating double bass fiddle, congas, bongos, tambourines, & maracas. The band over the years has toured the nation. In San Francisco, a reviewer said that they deliver “haunting Latin & surf guitar, rollicking rockabilly refrains, velvety lounge melodies, & pop- pick-me-ups. It’s downright hair-raising—or seductive, giddy, sinister, & festive,” according to mood. The band has played with The Who, Bruce Hornsby, Sick Puppies, Buckwheat Zydeco, Southern Culture on the Skids, & many others. 9:00 pm to 12 midnight. 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. 6:00-8:00 pm.
Andrade’s International Restaurant
7 Bollingbrook Street (804) 733-1515
Continuing Exhibit, Main Dining Room: Paintings by Paul C. Penrod.
Continuing Exhibit: Main Dining Room, Corridor Gallery: Irish Art by Jeannie Cameron.
Continuing Exhibit, Corridor Gallery: Drawings of the R/UDAT vision for downtown Petersburg.
Live Music: Buddy Lee, 7:30 to Midnight.
The Gardener’s Gate
12 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 861-1181
New Exhibit: Paintings and sketches by award-winning local artist Jerome Wiggins, who paints Petersburg scenes and much other subject-matter. Wiggins is one of Petersburg’s strongest artists. Reception: 7:00-9:00 pm.
Petersburg Area Art League
7 E. Old St., (804) 861-4611, open Tuesday-Saturday, 12 noon to 6 pm
Opening Reception: Main Gallery: “Retrospective,” showcasing the oil paintings of acclaimed artist Judge Oliver A. Pollard, as well as his hand-crafted furniture. His oils depict historic buildings in the Petersburg area and local landscapes, and include still life paintings. The furniture in this wonderful display will focus on handmade rustic chairs crafted from dogwood and curly maple. 6:00-9:00 pm. Don’t miss!
A Discussion with the Artist, featuring Oliver Pollard, Sunday, 14 June, at 4:00 pm, at PAAL.
Maria’s Café & Italian Restaurant
16 West Old Street, (804) 862-3100
Live music: Gil Edwards & Leon Crawley, Jr. (jazz vocalists), 8:00-9:30 pm
Sycamore Rouge
21 W. Old St., (804) 957-5707, www.sycamorerouge.org
New Exhibit: Gallery: “Shades of Life”—an exhibit of work in pencil by Ruth Maclin, including portraits of children, performing artists, and family members. Maclin, a graduate of VSU in Fine Arts Education, has had decades of experience as an arts educator and as a graphics artist.
Live Music: Courtyard: Herman Maclin (bass guitar), 7:00 pm.
Courtyard: Sycamore Steaks. Steaks, chicken, wine, music. $20 fundraiser.
ElderHomes & Renew Crew
25 West Old Street, 732-3800
New Exhibit: Venezuelan artist Monica Richards, who achieves a beautiful jeweled effect by using Brazilian floorwax, made especially for slate floors.
New Exhibit: hand-crafted belts and buckles by Susan Carney.
Both artists have donated pieces for raffles for ElderHomes.
The Bistro at Market & Grove
434 N. Market St., (804) 732-4480
Continuing Exhibit: “Banned at the Bank,” by Prince George artist Erin Copeland. Copeland, a tenth-grader at Prince George High School, has studied art as a PAAS student & has taken art classes at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She is a member of PAAL, PRAC, & the Crossroads Art Center in Richmond, & has shown her work locally at PAAL, PRAC, the Bistro, & the Dixie. She continues to exhibit great energy in studying art. The work on display was removed from a show at a bank in Richmond.
A Timeline for the Evening:
6:00-10:00 pm Friday for the Arts! visual arts openings
Friday for the Arts! visual arts openings6:15 pmBook signing & presentation: James T. Fleming presenting Southern Dreams: Broken and Fulfilled, at the Siege Museum
Book signing & presentation: James T. Fleming presenting Southern Dreams: Broken and Fulfilled, at the Siege Museum6:30 pmCandlelight Concert: Bryan Sheetz Steel Drum Ensemble, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Candlelight Concert: Bryan Sheetz Steel Drum Ensemble, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church7:00 pmExhibit opens at Friend House Gallery, Gardener’s Gate
Exhibit opens at Friend House Gallery, Gardener’s Gate7:00 pmHerbert Maclin (bass guitar), in the Courtyard at Sycamore Rouge
Herbert Maclin (bass guitar), in the Courtyard at Sycamore Rouge7:00 pmBook signing & presentation: Hubert T. Alexander presenting God’s Awesome Handiwork, at Minerva Books
Book signing & presentation: Hubert T. Alexander presenting God’s Awesome Handiwork, at Minerva Books7:00, 7:45 pmRippleshot (rhythm ‘n’ blues), PRAC
Rippleshot (rhythm ‘n’ blues), PRAC7:00-9:00 pm Open community jam, at the Dixie Diner
Open community jam, at the Dixie Diner7:00-9:30 pmJim Adkins at Java Mio
Jim Adkins at Java Mio7:30-10:30 pm Excerpts from Road to Redempshun, 201 Liberty
Excerpts from Road to Redempshun, 201 Liberty7:30 pmAwards Ceremony, at the Petersburg Regional Art Center
Awards Ceremony, at the Petersburg Regional Art Center7:30 to Midnight Buddy Lee, outside at Andrade’s
Buddy Lee, outside at Andrade’s8:00 pmFarmer’s Bank exhibit closes
Farmer’s Bank exhibit closes8:00-9:30 pm Gil Edwards & Leon Crawley, Jr. (vocalists) at Maria’s
Gil Edwards & Leon Crawley, Jr. (vocalists) at Maria’s9:00 pmExhibits close at PAAL, Gardener’s Gate, Friend House Gallery
Exhibits close at PAAL, Gardener’s Gate, Friend House Gallery9:00 pm to midnightCashmere Jungle Lords at Wabi-Sabi
Cashmere Jungle Lords at Wabi-Sabi9:00 pm to 1:00 am Live Music TBA at Cockade City Grill
Live Music TBA at Cockade City Grill9:00pm to 1:00 pmDewey Via & Rita at the Dixie Diner
Dewey Via & Rita at the Dixie Diner9:30 pm Exhibit closes at the Library
Exhibit closes at the Library10:30 pm to 1 amR.D. Bland at Longstreet’s
R.D. Bland at Longstreet’s2:00-3:00 amLate Night Breakfast at the Dixie Diner
Late Night Breakfast at the Dixie DinerJOIN US THE 2ND FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH FOR Friday for the Arts!
