HAPPY NEW YEAR! WHAT’S HAPPENING IN JANUARY WITH FALL ART TOUR VENUES AND ARTISTS!
It’s a beautiful time of year to visit Rappahannock County (who are we kidding? Any time of year is the perfect time to visit!). 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.
Rappahannock County is so beautiful in January, with our open winter vistas of the Shenandoah National Park and beautiful Blue Ridge mountains and historic country villages.
Here’s what’s happening this month:
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MIDDLE STREET GALLERY
Members & Friends Show
January 10 – February 7, 2025
Opening Reception: January 18, 2025, 1:00 – 4:00 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 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
Reception with the artists: January 18, 4:00 -6:00 pm. Food and drink will be served.
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
MARGARET ROGERS
Now through January 31, 2025
Fall Art Tour artist Margaret Rogers is joined by Rappahannock County artists Nora Harrington, Joan Weiberg, Nedra Smith, and Barbara Heile in an exhibit of their plien air works at the Rappahannock library in Washington, VA until the end of January.
Artists, from left: Nedra Smith, Joan Wiberg, Margaret Rogers, Nora Harrington, and Barbara Heile
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.
This week, Jay Ward Brown, a lawyer and owner of the Gay Street Gallery, announced that he is establishing 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, Haley Fine Art, and Thornton River Art.