WHAT’S HAPPENING IN FEBRUARY WITH FALL ART TOUR VENUES AND ARTISTS!
Banish the February doldrums with fine art, chocolate, and more in Rappahannock County!
Come out to the County to enjoy our galleries and shops, award-winning wines and micro-breweries, amazing restaurants, and overnight accomodations.
Here’s what’s happening this month:
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MIDDLE STREET GALLERY
February 9 – March 17, 2024
Opening Event: Febuary 10, 2024, 11 am – 5 pm
311 Gay Street, Lower Level,
facing Main Street & across from Ballard’s
Washington, VA 22747
(540) 227-5066
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
Join the members of Middle Street Gallery and their friends for a special exhibition! Opening event is scheduled for all day on February 10, 2024; refreshments will be served throughout the day and various members and friends will be on hand to discuss their work and the exhibit.
Image: Topeng Monyet (Masked Monkey), guest-artist Brandon Eastmann
THORNTON RIVER ART
Love is in the Air
February 11, 2024, 11 am – 5 pm
37C Main Street
Sperryville, VA 22740
(540) 547-7845
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm
Thornton River Art will be hosting Cocoa Manna, a “bean to bar” chocolate maker, selling their wonderful confections, with handcrafted Valentines cards made by our youngest artist. Come in, celebrate and find the perfect gift for your special Valentine created by local artists.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS:
GAY STREET GALLERY
John Valenti and Lotta Helleberg
January 13 – March 12, 2024
Gay Street Gallery
337 Gay Street
Washington VA 22747
540-227-5100
Wednesday-Monday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, or by appointment 540-522-9688
John Valenti is a photographer with over 40 years of experience capturing unique perspectives on everyday life. A native central New Yorker, John now calls Northern Virginia home. His photographic art is a broad mix of nature, urban landscape, movement, expression, and scenic imagery from around the world. John sees every day as a new opportunity to capture extraordinary images from simple experiences.
Lotta Helleberg is a Swedish-born artist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. For more than a decade, Helleberg has experimented with print making and surface design, focusing on botanical contact printing, relief processes, and local plant-based dyes, to render works that both document and celebrate her immediate surroundings. Her unconventional wall and book works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States as well as abroad.
In addition, on exhibit for the first time are a number of works from the Kevin H. Adams archive — oil studies for commissioned and other paintings he created over the years.