WHAT’S HAPPENING IN FEBRUARY WITH FALL ART TOUR VENUES AND ARTISTS!
Rappahannock in wintertime is so lovely – wide open vistas, crisp air, and all our galleries, restaurants, and shops are open for you! We love taking a stroll through Sperryville or Washington, and stopping in for coffee or hot chocolate at Before & After or Patty O’s. Of course, lunch and dinner at any of our locally-owned restaurants is always a treat, too!
Shop for unique and special items from artists and locally-owned small businesses, see new and continuing exhibits, and 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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SPERRYVILLE ARTIST COOPERATIVE & SPAC GALLERY
Second Saturdays
February 8, 2025
Sperryville Marketplace
3 River Lane
Sperryville, VA 22740
Hours: 4:00 – 7:00 PM
Join Sperryville ARTist Cooperative / SPAC Gallery and all the other shops at the Sperryville Marketplace for the new Second Saturdays event. These new monthly events will feature live music, and shops will be open later, from 4:00 – 7:00 pm.
Local Artist Exhibitions
Charles Tompkins Exhibit
February 1 – March 31, 2025
Outside the SPAC Gallery
Sperryville Marketplace
3 River Lane
Sperryville, VA 22740
SPAC Gallery is adding a new gallery wall outside their space, featuring a rotating exhibit of work from local artists.
CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
MIDDLE STREET GALLERY
Members & Friends Show
January 10 – March 23, 2025
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 Middle Street Gallery’s members and their friends for a beautiful new exhibition of local art!
Top Image: Elaine Langerman, friend of member Wayne Paige
Bottom Image: Nora Harrington, friend of member Nedra Smith
GAY STREET GALLERY
New work by Nedra Smith and Robert Bouquet, with work from the archives of Kevin H. Adams
January 18 – March 18, 2025
Featuring new work by two local artists — paintings by Nedra Smith and sculptures by Robert Bouquet. In addition, the gallery continues to show work from the archives of Kevin H. Adams and will also be showing for the first time some works by other artists from Kevin’s and Jay’s personal collection.
337 Gay Street
Washington, VA 22747
(540) 227-5100
Hours: Friday – Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm or by appointment (540) 316-8898
Gay Street Gallery is also happy to help you by phone (540) 227-5100 or email office@gaystreetgallery.com.
Top Image: Nedra Smith
Bottom Image: Robert Bouquet
KEVIN H. ADAMS
Supporting Shenandoah artists, honoring Kevin Adams: Jay Ward Brown creates fund for artists, in honor of his late husband, by Tim Carrington
Beloved Rappahannock artist Kevin Adams experienced an exceptionally productive period in 2017, when he relocated from the Town of Washington to the peaks, outcroppings and crannies of the Shenandoah National Park as artist-in-residence. Five years later, saddened by Adams’ death from brain cancer, friends, fellow artists and neighbors revisited the dozens of paintings and sketches he generated during his weeks in the park, alongside an array of Rappahannock landscapes.
Last month, Jay Ward Brown, a lawyer and owner of the Gay Street Gallery, announced the establishment of a fund in memory of his late husband to support other artists to work in this same setting. The Kevin H. Adams Memorial Fund for Art in the Park, builds the painter’s hope that the national parks would continue to attract not only animals and hikers, but artists who might linger and look closely.
All of our galleries are open and are full of amazing local art, crafts and gifts – be sure to visit Artful Friends and Sperryville ARTist Cooperative and Gallery at the Sperryville Marketplace, R.H. Ballard Gallery & Shop, Cottage Curator, Gay Street Gallery, Haley Fine Art, Middle Street Gallery, and Thornton River Art.