Tawny Chatmon's portraits capture the beauty, innocence and hope of black childhood. She is devoted to creating portraits that are loosely inspired by works painted spanning from the 15th to 20th centuries, with the specific intent of bringing to the forefront faces that were often under-celebrated in this style of work. Chatmon's works almost always begin as photographs she has taken of someone close to her. She then alters her photos in diverse ways, creating a depth of layers using a variety of mediums. She chooses to frame her work in gold vintage, antique and baroque frames that she collects from estate sales, galleries, auctions and private sellers. These frames were constructed during (or are reminiscent of) an era in which framing subjects such as her’s wasn’t a consideration. Recently, Chatmon discovered a common theme amongst the sellers of these frames. Something that is often expressed is their concern over the fragility and the importance of them. She realized that the concern over the fragility of these previously loved frames, was her wish for the subjects she was placing inside of them.

Chatmon's photography has been featured in Vogue Bambini, Parenting Magazine and Babytalk Magazine. Her commercial clients include YMCA, Until There's a Cure, National Education Association and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Opening Reception
Friday, January 17, 2020 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm

TransLight/TransPlace
January 18 – March 7, 2020

Windows of the Soul
January 18 – March 7, 2020

Art at Happy Hour
Thursday, February 27, 2020 • 5 – 7 pm

TAWNY CHATMON, THREE

Barbara Kobylinska approaches her art with both a studied sense of design and an unapologetic intuition. Her large indoor/outdoor sculptures are adventurous and inventive. With humor and a sophisticated, playful intelligence, she invites the viewer to share her delight in the unexpected. Kobylinska's work has been exhibited in shows across the country and is part of many private collections. She is a member of International Sculpture Center, Washington Sculptors Group, Potter’s Council and Ceramic Designers Association.

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Opening Reception
Friday, October 18, 2019 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Hands, Head, Heart: Jill Jensen
On display October 19, 2019 – January 4, 2020

Working Men
On display October 19, 2019 – January 4, 2020

Art at Happy Hour
Thursday, December 19, 2019 • 5 – 7 pm

BARBARA KOBYLINSKA FROM WILD AND COLORFUL WORLD

Parts² acts as an extension of decades of artist Ed Dolinger’s self-imposed creative constraints of composing within a square format, while pursuing abstract expressions through a variety of mixed media. All of the works presented in this exhibit are also confined to a 12-inch square format, beginning as flat collages, assembled with magazine pages anchored with layers of beeswax. As with his earlier mixed media work, it is an elusive pursuit challenging a learning curve of techniques, visually and viscerally melding with poetic puzzle-making.

Dolinger has been an active member of the Virginia art community for years. He is a former recipient of a painting fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and has been shown, collected and involved in public arts projects throughout the country.

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Opening Reception
Friday, August 2, 2019 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm

FLASHPOINTS : Material : Intent : Fused
On display August 3 – October 5, 2019

Life, Love, Art: Works from the Collection of Judy and John Matthews
On display August 3 – October 5, 2019

Art at Happy Hour
Thursday, October 3, 2019 • 5 – 7 pm

ED DOLINGER, TURING TEST, BEESWAX OVER COLLAGE ON BOARD, 2018, 12”X12”

Opening Reception sponsored by King's Grant
Best in Show sponsored by Virginia Mirror Company


Offering an eclectic mix of styles and media, Expressions is an open-entry judged art exhibit featuring work by more than 100 local and regional artists.

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Artwork Entry: Lynwood Artists + Students Only
Thursday, May 2, 2019 • 4 – 6 pm

Artwork Entry: All Artists
Saturday, May 4, 2019 • 10 am – 2 pm

Opening Reception
Friday, May 17, 2019 • 6 – 8 pm

Art at Happy Hour
Thursday, July 18, 2018 • 5 – 7 pm

Artwork Pick Up
Saturday, July 20, 2019 • 10 am – 2 pm

Robert Frank photographs Beat poet Allen Ginsberg hugging a tree, Imogen Cunningham poses Alfred Stieglitz standing in front of a flower painting by Georgia O’Keeffe, and Barbara Morgan captures modern dancer Martha Graham as she stretches her body into a dramatic form; these images convey more than a mere likeness of the artists portrayed. Instead they highlight the collaboration between photographer and subject when both are artists seeking to convey a unique persona.

Artists as Art: Photographic Portraits is on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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Opening Reception
Friday, March 8, 2019 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Nightfall: Prints of the Dark Hours
On display March 9 – April 27, 2019

Bettie Bowles
On display March 9 – April 27, 2019

VMFA on the Road: An Artmobile for the 21st Century
March 21 – 23, 2019

Art at Happy Hour
Thursday, April 18, 2019 • 5 – 7 pm

ROBERT FRANK, ALLEN GINSBERG, 1959, GELATIN SILVER PRINT, VMFA (2012.4), ALDINE S. HARTMAN ENDOWMENT FUND

This exhibition explores nocturnes–images that evoke the night. Luminous apparitions of the divine, dazzling fireworks, lamplit urban streets, and twilight’s soft glow over the natural landscape are all subjects that have intrigued and challenged printmakers across the centuries.

Nightfall: Prints of the Dark Hours is on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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Opening Reception
Friday, March 8, 2019 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Artists as Art: Photographic Portraits
On display March 9 – April 27, 2019

Bettie Bowles
On display March 9 – April 27, 2019

VMFA on the Road: An Artmobile for the 21st Century
March 21 – 23, 2019

Art at Happy Hour
Thursday, April 18, 2019 • 5 – 7 pm

EDWARD HOPPER, NIGHT SHADOWS, 1921, ETCHING ON PAPER, VMFA (2009.356), GIFT OF MALCOLM B. BRADLEY

Jon Murrill provides a contemporary perspective on the human spirit of the working class through the use of expression. Working in charcoal, Murrill captures photorealistic images, allowing his audience to interact with the personality of each portrait. His work does not represent an idealistic beauty, but rather, the spirit of working class individuals and the depth of character that they each possess.

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Opening Reception
Friday, January 11, 2018 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Mood and Music: Paintings by Eric McRay
On display January 12 – February 23, 2019

Clarence Heinz
On display January 12 – February 23, 2019

The Magic of Glass
On display January 12 – February 23, 2019

Art at Happy Hour
Thursday, February 21, 2018 • 5 – 7 pm

JONATHAN MURRILL, STRONGER, CHARCOAL AND WATERCOLOR, 2016

More than 40 quilt artists from across the Southeast will exhibit work in this biennial invitational exhibition, co-curated by master quilter Linda Fiedler and quilter Betty Blessin. Themed, Trends, this year's exhibition commemorates the 11th anniversary of The Art of the Quilt.

Admission Free

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Opening Reception
Friday, October 26, 2018 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Virginia Foothills Quilters Guild
On display October 27 – December 29, 2018

Art @ Happy Hour
Thursday, December 13, 2018 • 5 – 7 pm

EILEEN DOUGHTY, GOLD LEAF TEA

Organized by the Taubman Museum of Art, this exhibition presents the culmination of eight years of concentrated labor producing a massive painting project by one of Southwestern Virginia's most respected artists. Eleven large-scale, colorful and densely populated paintings invite the viewer into a complex interweaving of narrative, symbol, and form.

Bill Rutherfoord: Allegory of No Region has been organized by the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia.

Admission Free

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Members-Only Reception
Friday, August 10, 2018 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Works by Chris Frazier
On display August 11 – October 13, 2018 • Piedmont Arts

BILL RUTHERFOORD, DECEPTION (SPRING), 2008-2013, OIL ON LINEN, 70" X 74"

Named Third Place Winner "Best Art Event" in Virginia Living Magazine's Best of Virginia 2017

Offering an eclectic mix of styles and media, Expressions is an open-entry judged art exhibit featuring work by over 120 local and regional artists.

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Artwork Entry (Lynwood Artists + Students Only)
Thursday, May 4, 2017 • 4 pm – 6 pm • Piedmont Arts

Artwork Entry (All Artists)
Saturday, May 6, 2017 • 10 am – 2 pm • Piedmont Arts

Members-Only Reception + Awards Ceremony
Friday, May 19, 2017 • 6 – 8 pm • Piedmont Arts

Artwork Pickup
Saturday, July 22, 2017 • 10 am – 2 pm • Piedmont Arts

Healing Arts Exhibit
May 20 – August 25, 2017

Art @ Happy Hour
Friday, June 16, 2017 • 5 – 7 • Piedmont Arts

This watercolor invitational is held in memory of Wanda Prillaman, one of Martinsville-Henry County’s most celebrated watercolor artists. Featuring 34 works by Wanda and works by 21 regional watercolor artists who experienced Wanda’s influence in their lives.

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Members-Only Reception
Friday, March 10, 2017 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Sponsors Reception
Friday, March 30, 2017 • 5 pm • Piedmont Arts

Adjunct | Ben Winslow
On display March 11 – April 29, 2017

Art @ Happy Hour
Friday, April 21, 2017 • 5 – 7 pm • Piedmont Arts

Christmas in March
On display March 31 – April 29, 2017 • Little Post Office

This inter-media installation and dance performance transforms the galleries into a marsh habitat using video and sound. Based on fieldwork and close observation of the North Carolina coast, Salt Marsh Suite combines art, science and technology to convey the vulnerability of the marsh habitat.

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Members-Only Reception
Friday, January 13, 2017 • 5:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Russell Hart
On display through Feb 25, 2017 • Piedmont Arts

David Lunt
On display through Feb 25, 2017 • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Happy Hour
Friday, February 17, 2017 • 5 – 7 • Piedmont Arts

Over 40 quilt artists from across the Southeast will exhibit work in this biennial invitational exhibition, curated by master quilter Linda Fiedler. Themed, Let’s Celebrate, this year's exhibition commemorates the 10th anniversary of The Art of the Quilt.

In celebration of The Art of the Quilt, Virginia Consortium of Quilters will host their quarterly meeting during the exhibition.

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Members-Only Reception
Friday, November 11, 2016 • 5:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Works by Virginia Foothills Quilters Guild
On display November 12 – December 31, 2016

Art @ Happy Hour
Thursday, December 15, 2016 • 5 – 7 • Piedmont Arts

VCQ Quarterly Meeting
Saturday, November 12, 2016 • New College Institute

A nationally-renowned artist from Blacksburg, VA, Pienkowski will display three compilations: The Paint Saints – paying homage to some of the most famous artists in the world; Abstracts on Birch and Paper; and The Many Looks of Self-Portraits.

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Members-Only Reception
Friday, August 12 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

A World, In Pieces
On display August 13 – October 29, 2016

Art @ Happy Hour
Friday, September 30, 2016 • 5 – 7 • Piedmont Arts

Offering an eclectic mix of styles and media, Expressions is one of the most popular events in Piedmont Arts' exhibition schedule. Presented by Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts, this open-entry judged art exhibit features work by local and regional artists.

Related Events
Artwork Entry (Lynwood Artists + Students Only)
Thursday, May 5, 2016 • 4 pm – 6 pm • Piedmont Arts

Artwork Entry (All Artists)
Saturday, May 7, 2016 • 10 am – 1 pm • Piedmont Arts

Members-Only Reception
Friday, May 20 • 6:30 – 8:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Artwork Pickup
Saturday, July 23 • 10 am – 2 pm • Piedmont Arts


Expressions 2016 Gallery Guide | Expressions 2016 Awards

Collecting Prints: Selections from the Collection of James W. Hyams
Mar 19 through Apr 30, 2016

Featuring prints selected from the contemporary art collection of James W. Hyams, this exhibit features 61 prints by 47 artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst, Robert Cottingham, Chuck Close, Robert Rauschenberg and more.

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Members-Only Reception
Friday, March 18 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

The Henry County Pro-Am Photography Club
March 19 – April 30, 2016 • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Happy Hour
Friday, April 15 • 5 – 7 pm • Piedmont Arts

Get fired up about the astounding glass creations from instructors and staff at the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio. These cutting edge artists create contemporary designs using traditional glass blowing techniques.

Featuring works by James Akers, Joan Biddle, Ali Feeney, Gayle Forman, Van Eric Harned, Hannah Kirkpatrick, Kathy Little, Laura McFie, Katheryn Murphy, Charlotte Potter, Julia Rogers, Robin Rogers, Joshua Solomon, Hilary Wang and more.

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Members-Only Reception
Friday, July 24 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Unbreakable: Glass by Robert Cappelli
July 25 – October 2, 2015 • Piedmont Arts

Local Glass
July 25 – October 2, 2015 • Piedmont Arts

Fired Up! Family Day
Saturday, August 15, 2015 • 2 – 4 pm • Piedmont Arts


View the Fired Up! Picasa Album

Offering an eclectic mix of styles and media, Expressions is one of the most popular events in Piedmont Arts' exhibition schedule. Presented by Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts, this open-entry judged art exhibit features work by local and regional artists.

Voting for People's Choice Award is open through Friday, July 10 at 5 pm. Visit Piedmont Arts and cast your vote in the galleries. The artist who wins this coveted award will receive a cash prize and a commemorative ribbon.

Expressions 2015 Gallery Guide (PDF)

Expressions 2015 Award Winners + Contributors (PDF)


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Expressions Artwork Entry
Thu, Apr 23 – Lynwoond Artists + Students Only
Sat, Apr 25 – All Artists

Members-Only Reception
Fri, May 8, 2015 • 6:30 – 8:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Lunch
Tue, May 19, 2015 • 12 – 1 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Happy Hour
Thu, June 4, 2015 • 6 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Artwork Pickup
Sat, July 11 • 10 am – 2 pm • Piedmont Arts

Celebrating the 25th year of Roanoke’s The Studio School, this exhibition features work by faculty members Judy Bates, Tracy Budd, Vera Dickerson, Michael Farrar, Jane Winders Frank, Gina Louthian-Stanley and Robin Poteet.

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Members-Only Reception
Fri, Feb 6 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Lunch
Tue, Feb 17, 2015 • 12 – 1 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Happy Hour
Thu, Mar 5, 2015 • 6 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Join Piedmont in Arts celebrating an exhibition of student-designed mobiles created as part of Mobilizing Our Community.

Students from all 19 schools in Martinsville-Henry County participated in Mobilizing Our Community, a mobile-making project presented by Piedmont Arts.

Over four weeks, artist Kevin Reese worked closely with local students to create large-scale, dynamic and colorful mobiles that will become a permanent part of our community.

Select mobiles on display in Mobilizing Our Community are available for purchase. Funds from mobile purchases will help support the museum's educational outreach.

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Opening Reception
Sat, Dec 13 • 10 am – 12 pm • Piedmont Arts

Photo Gallery

For the ninth year, over 40 quilt artists from across the Southeast will exhibit work in this biennial invitational exhibition, curated by master quilter Linda Fiedler. Themed, Celebration of Color, this year's exhibition features quilts in vibrant, stunning hues.

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Members-Only Reception
Fri, Nov 21 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Lunch
Tue, Dec 2, 2014 • 12 – 1 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Happy Hour
Thu, Dec 18, 2014 • 6 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Photo Gallery

This exhibition of 50 American prints surveys the activities of artists who put designs on paper during an exciting 50-year period from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Especially significant during this period are the contributions of women printmakers, as well as the impact of African American artists on the graphic arts. Combined with artists who immigrated to the United States during these decades and the increased numbers of painters and sculptors who took up printmaking, this exhibition makes the egalitarian nature of the print abundantly clear.

Pulled, Pressed and Screened: Important American Prints is drawn from the Syracuse University Art Collection holdings of more than 12,500 prints of which more than 7,500 are by American artists.

Includes prints by Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Milton Avery, Dorothy Dehner, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, and Richard Estes, among others.

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Members-Only Reception
Saturday, Sep 13, 2014 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Lunch
Tue, Sep 23, 2014 • 12 – 1 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Happy Hour
Thu, Oct 9, 2014 • 6 – 8 pm • Piedmont Arts

Printmaking Family Day
Saturday, Nov 8, 2014 • 1 – 3 pm • Piedmont Arts

Pulled, Pressed and Screened images courtesy of the Syracuse University Art Collection.

This joint exhibition features work by Virginia artists Ed Dolinger and Mark Shepheard. Though a symbiotic experience in created through similarities in style and content, each artist retains their own unique perspective: Dolinger's “poetic puzzles” seek to calm chaos through the deconstruction of dense information, while Shepheard's work acts as an interpretation of a story in three dimensions—incorporating painting and drawing with his love of creative writing.

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Dancing with Color by Audrey Caywood
Jul 19 – Aug 30, 2014 • Lynwood Artists Gallery

Members-Only Reception
Friday, Jul 18, 2014 • 5:30 – 7:30 pm • Piedmont Arts

3D with ED: Subtractive
Friday, Jul 24, 2014, 6 – 9 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Lunch
Tue, Jul 29, 2014 • 12 – 1 pm • Piedmont Arts

Art @ Happy Hour
Thu, Aug 14, 2014 • 6 – 8 pm • Piedmont Arts

3D with ED: Additive
Friday, Aug 29, 2014, 10 am – 3 pm • Piedmont Arts

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you.

Featuring new works by Floyd, VA artist Gibby Waitzkin, Continuum of Being explores the symbiotic relationship between humans and their environment—emphasizing humanity as an organic element in nature. Using objects that echo themselves throughout the natural world, like seedpods, lichen and flowering plants, these works highlight man's vulnerable place within nature, while striving to impose minimal impact.

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Art @ Lunch
Wednesday, Mar 13, 2014, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Art @ Happy Hour
Thursday, April 3, 2014, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Papermaking + Bookbinding Workshop
June 19 – 20, Sarvisberry Gallery & Studio, Floyd

Exhibit Photo Gallery

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Graphic designer Johnny Selman brings his critically acclaimed poster series BBCx365 and a collection of illustrations created for The New York Times to Piedmont Arts in the exhibit, Old News.

Selman created BBCx365 by designing one poster per day for 365 days. Each poster is based on a headline from the BBC morning news. Selman says the purpose of his project was “to open the eyes of the American public to international current events not often covered in our ‘domesticated’ news programming.” The project served as Selman’s MFA thesis project and gained national attention from BBC News, Guardian UK and GOOD Magazine among others.

Several of Selman’s original illustrations and designs for The New York Times will also be on display as part of Old News. Titled simply New York Times, these works were created for the newspaper's OP/ED, Book Review and Sunday Review sections from 2011 to 2013.

Exhibit Photo Gallery

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Piedmont Arts celebrates National Breast Cancer Awareness Month with an exhibit by photographer Curtis Brown.

Brown created Weight of the Ribbon, as an homage to his grandmother’s struggle with breast cancer. His photographs reflect the emotional journeys of breast cancer victims in their battles against the disease; from moments of strength and triumph to moments of defense and collapse. Dancers from the Carolina Ballet used their artistic talents to translate the photographer’s concept into visual form through distinct expression and movement.

Along with Weight of the Ribbon, one of Brown’s most passionate and innovative series, The Portrait from the Vote Against Project for equality in North Carolina, will also be on display.

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you.

Ethereal in its oddness, Linda Mitchell’s highly textured, brilliantly colored two-dimensional work is made with painted and photographic images, fabric, wood, glass and found objects. These works coalesce into intricate and surreal scenes, reflecting life’s emotional complexity, while her three-dimensional animal figures, made of fabric and Play-Doh, add a delightful whimsy to the viewer's journey.

Exhibit Slideshow | Video

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you.

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you.

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you.

For the eighth year, quilt artists from across the Southeast will exhibit their work in the Piedmont Arts galleries as part of the biennial invitational quilt exhibit, The Art of the Quilt: Celebrations. Over 40 quilters will show work in this fiber arts showcase, curated by master quilter Linda M. Fiedler, which features hand and machine stitched quilts, traditional textiles, clothing, accessories and quilt art.

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you.

Los Angeles-based artist and Bassett native, Christopher Barbour, creates photographs that represent his search – for himself, for understanding, for sight. Barbour seeks balance in the hectic modern world, observing it through his lens while challenging the viewer to slow down and view it with him. Barbour's images carry the expression of life moving constantly, captured in one small frame.

Artist website | Photo Gallery | Price List

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you.

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you.

Offering an eclectic mix of styles and media, Expressions is one of the most popular events in Piedmont Arts' exhibition schedule. Presented by the Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts, this open-entry juried art exhibit features work by local and regional artists.

Exhibit Photo Gallery

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In 1935, George Macy, the publisher of the Heritage Press and Limited Editions Club books, invited Norman Rockwell to illustrate Mark Twain'sThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Rockwell visited Hannibal, Missouri, Twain's boyhood town, to find authentic details to include in his work. Twain's vivid descriptions of character, setting and mood were an inspiration to the illustrator, who considered each of the writer's scenes to be "complete and perfect to the last detail."

Sixteen signed limited edition prints from Rockwell's own collection, on loan from the Norman Rockwell Museum, comprise this exhibition featuring the artist's timeless images for these American classics.

During this exhibit, see experts from a documentary on Mark Twain in the Piedmont Arts Media Room.

In conjunction with this exhibit, Piedmont Arts presents the special event, Mark Twain at Large on Friday, March 30, 2012.

Image: Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence (detail), lithograph, 1936.
Reproduced with permission of Easton Press.

Norman Rockwell Museum | Exhibit Photo Gallery

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Surface and Soul is a special installation exhibit by Dianne Smith. In addition to paintings and sculptures from her previous collections, Smith's exhibit will include a custom sculpture created on-site to fit the unique characteristics of the Piedmont Arts galleries and an interactive homage to the Civil Rights Movement constructed by Smith using images and historical documents on loan from the collection of Reverend Thurman Echols.

Often compared to that of Richard Mayhew and Norman Lewis, Smith's work has the ability to incite emotions with lush palettes and expressive brush strokes. "I am called upon to create my art in response to the events, circumstances and times of the world around me," says Smith. "Whether it is the plight of women and children around the world or the tragedy of a natural disaster or a conversation with a friend. I am able to create from the now. I use my work as a way to share information by connecting it to socioeconomic and political issues."

Dianne Smith website | Exhibit Photo Gallery

Smart Beginnings Martinsville & Henry County and Piedmont Arts are proudly sponsoring the special holiday exhibit, Festival of Trees. This free exhibit will feature beautifully decorated holiday trees, wreaths and gift baskets donated by local organizations. Festival of Trees will be on display in the Piedmont Arts galleries November 29 - December 2, 2011.

Festival of Trees Auction
Thursday, December 2, 2011 ¢ $10

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you!

In recognition of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, Piedmont Arts presents selections from Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs of Reenactments, a twelve year project, by Willie Anne Wright on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Wright, an artist, living and working in Richmond, uses pinhole photography to create one of her most interesting series. Her pinhole photographs, which feature the characteristics of her chosen medium and an occasional anachronistic detail, present a provocative view, as portrayed by dedicated reenactors. Wright's approach is evenhanded. The images include those of men and women-Caucasian and African-American, Federal and Confederate, famous players and the lesser known.

In conjunction with this exhibit, Piedmont Arts presents the Special Event, Scarlett Fever: The Greatness of Gone with the Wind, Tuesday, November 1, 2011.

Image:Willie Anne Wright, Chancellorsville: George Armstrong Custer, USA, April 30, 1988



Exhibit Photo Gallery

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Curated to honor the 75th anniversary of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, this exhibit showcases some of the finest works from more than 30 artistic masters worldwide, such as Post-Impressionistic icon Vincent Van Gogh, American impressionist James Abbot McNeil Whistler, pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, contemporary artist and Virginia-native Sally Mann and much more.

This momentous exhibit also celebrates the 50th anniversary of Piedmont Arts, which was founded in 1961 as an affiliate of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Today, Piedmont Arts is a Statewide Partner of the VMFA and is accredited by the American Association of Museums. Join us in celebrating our rich history of arts and arts education in Martinsville and Henry County with this masterful exhibit from the VMFA!

In conjunction with this exhibit, guests are invited to attend a Gallery Talk with Robin Nicholson, deputy director of exhibitions at the VMFA, on Thursday, Sep 1, 2011.

Image: Vincent Van Gogh, The Wheat Field behind St. Paul's Hospital, St. Rémy, 1889 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon)



Exhibit Photo Gallery

This exhibit remains admission free through the membership support of people like you!

Offering an eclectic mix of styles and media, Expressions is one of the most popular events in Piedmont Arts™ exhibition schedule. Presented by the Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts, this open-entry juried art exhibit features work by local and regional artists.




Expressions 2011 Photos | Expressions 2011 Winners | Expressions 2011 Sponsors

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Ann Glover is a realist painter and illustrator whose work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and several annuals of the NY Society of Illustrators. Her paintings are included in the corporate collections of J.P. Morgan Chase, H.J. Heinz, Inc., and private collections throughout the U.S.

Recent experimental works include making oversized wood constructions that read as childhood artifacts.

Exhibit Photo Gallery | Video: Ann Glover's comments at opening reception

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In honor of Black History Month Piedmont Arts, in partnership with the Southern Virginia Artisan Center, presents Finishing History, an exhibit featuring fine and art furniture by two African American woodworkers with ties to our area.

Also featuring, Carving a Place in History, an educational exhibit about furniture craftsman and entrepreneur, Thomas Day. Day was a free person of color working in Milton, North Carolina. Before the Civil War, he owned the most successful furniture business in North Carolina. Today, he is one of the South™s most celebrated furniture makers.

A.T. Williams website | Thomas A. Johnson website | Thomas Day Education Project

Piedmont Arts presents a special holiday exhibit featuring trees decorated by local businesses and organizations. Trees will be on display in the Piedmont Arts galleries November 16 “ 24, 2010.

In conjunction with Piedmont Arts' special holiday exhibit, Festival of Trees, Smart Beginnings/The Starting Place will host a reception and tree auction on November 20, beginning at 1:00 PM. Trees decorated by a local businesses and organizations will be for sale. All proceeds from the sale of trees will benefit Smart Beginnings/The Starting Place. Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and refreshments.

Auction Tickets $10

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Quilt artists from all over the Southeast have been invited to display their work in this biennial showcase, curated by master quilter Linda Fiedler. All aspects of quilting are depicted in this colorful show, themed Blue Ridge, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Exhibit Slideshow

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Women of Poe features portraits of the women who were part of Edgar Allan Poe's life and who inspired his work. The original acrylic paintings in this exhibit were created by internationally exhibited artist and Poe Museum Curator Chris Semtner. Among the pieces in the show are portraits of Poe™s wife/cousin Virginia Clemm Poe; Jane Stanard, his first purely ideal love who went insane when Poe was a child; Elmira Royster Shelton, the woman to whom Poe was twice engaged; and Mary Rogers, the cigar girl whose murder inspired Poe™s story The Mystery of Marie Roget. This exhibit is on loan from the Poe Museum in Richmond, VA.

Exhibit Slideshow | Poe Museum website

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Artist Binh Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977, two years after the fall of Saigon. In 1979 he and his family left their country and eventually reached the United States. The experience of fleeing his homeland and his subsequent journey to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia inspired him to create artwork exploring time and memory. This series ... continues my exploration of the photographic process. Photography has allowed me to meditate on death and its influence on the living. The themes of mortality, memory, history, landscape justice, evidence and spirituality encompass this [work], states the artist.

This exhibition was organized by the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University. The exhibition and the accompanying publication were made possible by the Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence Fund, Hollins University. Image courtesy of the artist and the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University. ©2010 Binh Danh.

Eleanor D. Wilson Museum | News Article: Khmer Rouge Chief Jailed over 16,000 Deaths

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Offering an eclectic mix of styles and media, Expressions is one of the most popular events in Piedmont Arts™ exhibition schedule. Presented by the Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts, this open-entry juried art exhibit features work by local and regional artists. This year, over 100 artists participated and 33 awards were given.

Expressions Winners | Expressions 2010 Sponsors

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Art Jam features work by six regional female artists, curated to showcase a varied array of media, including sculpture, fiber arts, multimedia, painting and jewelry. This exhibit offers the unique perspective of artists who collaborate and exchange creative processes. Art Jam is presented in conjunction with MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts.



Art Jam website

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Classic Crafts, guest curated by John and Judy Matthews, is an exhibition of the very best crafts in the country. Works vary in media and include ceramics, glass, sculpture, wall hangings, wooden bowls, jewelry and baskets.



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This exhibition recreates the dazzling sights, sounds and the pageantry of Carnival celebrations around the world today. The exhibit transports viewers to eight rural and urban locations in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and North America, where Carnival is among the most important occasions of the year.

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Kim Beckmann™s work seeks to identify pertinent environmental qualities for place. Provoked by place“telling, “mapping and “making, Beckmann investigates the interconnectedness of physical, mental, and ephemeral artifacts of place. Her work has been published in Graphis and has been cited in numerous texts including Writing with Images: A Semiotics of the Web.

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Offering an eclectic mix of styles and media, Expressions is one of the most popular events in Piedmont Arts™ exhibition schedule. Presented by the Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts, this open-entry juried art exhibit features work by local and regional artists. This year, over 120 artists are participating and 35 awards were given. This year™s judge, Amy Moorefield, is the Director of the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum at Hollins University.

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Spurred from the book Crowns by photographer Michael Cunningham and journalist Craig Marberry, this exhibit examines the African“American custom of church hats.

Cunningham's photographs beautifully capture the self“expressions, through attire, of women of all ages. Using stories, Marberry provides an intimate look at the women and their lives. Together they've captured a captivating custom, this wearing of church hats, a peculiar convergence of faith and fashion that keeps the Sabbath both holy and glamorous.

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Quilt artists from all over the Southeast have been invited to display their work in this biennial showcase. All aspects of quilting are depicted in this colorful, awe-inspiring show. Enjoy the creative side of quilting with Piedmont Arts and discover how quilts are not only practical textiles...they're art!

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday, November 7, 2008 ¢ 5:30 PM

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Dreaming of the Stone Country features 8 paintings by Kunwinjku artists from Oenpelli in the Northern Territory of Australia, on loan from the Kluge“Ruhe Collection. The paintings depict ancestral stories from Western Arnhem Land.

Commissioned by John Kluge in 1991, the paintings were made using natural ochres and pigments on archival paper. This style of painting resembles rock art that was produced in the region and dates back thousands of years.

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday, September 5, 2008 ¢ 5:30 PM

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Throughout history, artists have been drawn to the natural world for inspiration, attracted as much to its beauty, as to its awesome power. Artists have also sought to capture the complexity of nature, attempting to render objects in perfectly detailed forms. Contemporary artists still draw upon the natural world for materials, and many reflect interests similar to those of their predecessors. In turn, the artists here focus on elements - from bones to animals, seeds to leaves -found in nature and, like many, they convey a sense of beauty and wonder.


Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday, July 11, 2008 ¢ 5:30 PM

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Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts present this annual, open-entry exhibition, featuring works by 137 local and regional artists.

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday, May 16, 2008 ¢ 6:30 PM

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This exhibiton presents a selection of 31 original wood engravings created by Michael McCurdy for 2 books: My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir and The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono. Each of these books, written by different authors from different countries, is centered around man's relationship with the natural world.

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday, March 7, 2008 ¢ 5:30 PM

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Diamonds in the Rough presents the works of six painters connected through Virginia Commonwealth University and the 1708 Gallery in Richmond, Virginia who are key contributors to the dynamic Richmond art scene. The artists Andras Bality, Bill Fisher, Diego Sanchez, Louis Poole, Stephen Clark and Tommy White, along with Peter Calvert, were members of an active Richmond critique group. Calvert, Piedmont Arts' Executive Director, brought this exhibition together to enable our local community to experience important contemporary painting and to encourage a healthy cultural exchange between urban and rural regions.

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday, January 11, 2008 ¢ 5:30 PM

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Lori Nix is an artist who bends the line between truth and illusion in her photographs. She accomplishes this by photographing miniatures and models which illuminate her interest in the disaster movies of the 1970s and her memories of growing up in Kansas”a place that seems to attract disasters like no other. In her series titled Accidentally Kansas Nix creates scenes of floods, tornadoes, snow storms, lightning strikes, and insect infestations, all epic and defining events recalled from her formative years in rural Kansas. The state of Kansas is located in the middle of the United States geographically, and also represents the moral middle of the road as a state of mind where conventional family values and good citizenship go hand in hand. By linking disasters with moral imperatives Nix allows herself to question conventional codes of society at the same time as she explores the unsettling memories of her youth.

In her most recent work, Nix has left Kansas behind as a subject, and, although depictions of disaster are still prominent in this new work, she has begun to explore situations that are as eerie and ominous as her former work was clear and present. This new work is charged with anxiety and uncertainty as witnesses to her previous disasters have become bystanders waiting for something to happen. Nix finished work on the series Accidentally Kansas well before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and also began work on a new series titled Some Other Place before the attacks, so a shift from natural disasters to psychological trauma began in her work before world events had a chance to influence her.

Sculptor Eric McGehearty will display his work at Piedmont Arts from September 7 “ October 21, 2007. McGehearty™s show, entitled Access Denied�, features sculptures that are in direct reference to his struggles with the learning disability dyslexia and, on a larger scale, relate to feelings of stress and confusion that all people can relate to.

With sculptures that are intense and purposeful, McGehearty takes his viewers through a maze of literature firmly encased in cement blocks; textbooks locked tight inside sturdy metal structures; and malformed panels of blurred, unreadable words. Viewing his work, one cannot help but feel the frustration of his struggle with written language. Yet, those who have never experienced the struggles of a learning disability can appreciate McGehearty™s work for the general sense of emotion it conveys.

McGehearty is a graduate of North Texas University with an MFA in sculpture. His work has been shown in seven solo exhibitions and countless group and museum shows, including shows at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC and the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University.

Eric McGehearty's will also host an in-depth preview of his work on September 6, 2007 at the New College Institute, located at 29 Jones Street, Courthouse Square, Martinsville, Virginia. The talk will begin at 6:00 PM and is FREE and oepn to the public. For more information, please call 276.403.5600 (NCI) or 276.632.3211.

Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday, September 7, 2007 ¢ 5:30 PM ¢ Piemont Arts

Expressions is Piedmont Arts™ annual open entry exhibition of works by regional artists. Work ranges from paintings and drawings to sculpture and fiber works to photography. Last year, 133 artists participated and 61 prizes were awarded. This event is anticipated by the community and its all-inclusive approach is accessible to all kinds of art lovers.

For Expressions 2007 winners, please click here.

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