Cornfeld named juror
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Michael Cornfeld, retired chairman of Marshall University's Art Department, will judge the upcoming Spring Fine Arts Exhibition, "Color Complements," at the Renaissance Art Gallery.
Mentoring for this event is available. All work submitted to the gallery will be hung in May.
Artists are encouraged to take a primary color and its complement and use these as a foundation for a work of art. This exhibition is open to artists 18 years old and older. All fine art media are welcome. Prospectus is available at the gallery or online at www.orgsites.com/wv/renaissance.
A PDF file of the prospectus is available on the Tri-State Art Association's Web site, www.tristatearts.org.
Marmet Locks archaeology
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The state Division of Culture and History and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have installed a new exhibit, "Uncovering the Past: Archeology from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Marmet Locks Project," in the first-floor rotunda of the state Capitol.
On exhibit are artifacts unearthed before construction on the larger lock could begin in 2002. Highlights include the recovering of two points dating from the earliest known occupation in the Kanawha Valley (8,550 to 8,000 B.C.); a rare excavation of a buried Early Archaic site in West Virginia (8,000 to 6,000 B.C.); the excavation of a 15th-century fortified Late Prehistoric village with 24 houses; and the ruins of the John Reynolds antebellum salt plantation, including a slave cabin site, several salt furnace ruins and evidence of the mansion site.
West Side showcase
INSTITUTE, W.Va. -- West Side Main Street, a program of West Virginia State University Extension Service, is hosting a public art project, "Go West!," designed to showcase Charleston's West Side through the development of a mural to be mounted on a retaining wall in the 1500 block of Washington Street West, in Charleston.
The project is a community education and participation project that will involve a center section of each of six panels designed by a professional artist and surrounded by tiles painted by community members.
Local artists for the project will be selected this month, and work scheduled to begin in June. An installation date of early fall has been set for the mural.
The Sustainable Kanawha Valley Initiative and The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation is funding the public art project.
Contact Pat McGill, director of West Side Main Street, at 304-720-3161 or direc...@westsidemainstreet.org.
To have your announcement included in Arts Notes, e-mail sara.bu...@wvgazette.com or send it to Arts Notes, The Charleston Gazette, 1001 Virginia St. E., Charleston, WV 25301. Deadline for inclusion in the Sunday Gazette-Mail is the Tuesday before Sunday publication.
Mining lecture
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Archives and History Library of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History will present "The Combat Scenario: Early West Virginia Coal Mining's Culture of Danger" by Dr. Paul Rakes, associate professor of history at WVU Institute of Technology, 6 to 7:30 p.m. April 6 at the Culture Center. The lecture is free and open to the public. The library will close at 5 p.m. and reopen at 5:45 p.m. for lecture participants only.
Rakes will discuss how West Virginia coal miners died in unprecedented numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He will compare the early West Virginia coal industry with 19th-century battlefields and consider the "combat mentality," which became ingrained in the subculture of the underground mining world.
Born in a West Virginia coal camp, Rakes, a third-generation miner, worked 20 years in the coal industry before acquiring a master's degree in history at Marshall University. He earned a doctorate at WVU, specializing in Appalachian history and concentrating on coal politics, technology and disasters in West Virginia.
Contact Robert Taylor at 304-558-0230, ext. 163, or Bobby.L.Tay...@wv.gov.
The Archives and History Library is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Monday through Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., on Thursday. The library is closed on Sunday.
'The Long Show'
INSTITUTE, W.Va. -- "The Long Show" exhibit will be presented at the Della Brown Taylor Gallery through April 22. The show features artists Brent Thomas, Jon Salo, Maggie Starcher and Dan Carlisle.
Della Brown Taylor Gallery, Davis Fine Arts Building, West Virginia State University, Institute. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. 304-766-3196 or dbt-gall...@wvstateu.edu.
'French Connection'
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. -- The Parkersburg Art Center presents "Riveting Images -- Our French Connection," photographic art by West Virginia photographer Deborah Herndon from April 9 through May 20. The show features enlarged metallic prints of artifacts and architectural details of ancient villages in southeastern France.
Herndon will attend the exhibit opening to discuss the metallic print process and the "back story" of the photographs 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 9.
Herndon's work has juried into Allied Artists, Tamarack, Alleghany Highlands Arts and Crafts Center in Virginia, and the Kentucky Guild of Artists. She also is exhibiting in Louisville, Ky., Bristol, Tenn., Staunton, Va., and Chicago galleries in April.
Parkersburg Art Center, 725 Market St., Parkersburg, WV 26101. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Admission $5 adult nonmembers, free to members. www.parkersburgartcenter.org. Contact 304-485-3859 or i...@parkersburgartcenter.org.
Cornfeld named juror
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Michael Cornfeld, retired chairman of Marshall University's Art Department, will judge the upcoming Spring Fine Arts Exhibition, "Color Complements," at the Renaissance Art Gallery.
Mentoring for this event is available. All work submitted to the gallery will be hung in May.
Artists are encouraged to take a primary color and its complement and use these as a foundation for a work of art. This exhibition is open to artists 18 years old and older. All fine art media are welcome. Prospectus is available at the gallery or online at www.orgsites.com/wv/renaissance.
A PDF file of the prospectus is available on the Tri-State Art Association's Web site, www.tristatearts.org.
Marmet Locks archaeology
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The state Division of Culture and History and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have installed a new exhibit, "Uncovering the Past: Archeology from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Marmet Locks Project," in the first-floor rotunda of the state Capitol.
On exhibit are artifacts unearthed before construction on the larger lock could begin in 2002. Highlights include the recovering of two points dating from the earliest known occupation in the Kanawha Valley (8,550 to 8,000 B.C.); a rare excavation of a buried Early Archaic site in West Virginia (8,000 to 6,000 B.C.); the excavation of a 15th-century fortified Late Prehistoric village with 24 houses; and the ruins of the John Reynolds antebellum salt plantation, including a slave cabin site, several salt furnace ruins and evidence of the mansion site.
West Side showcase
INSTITUTE, W.Va. -- West Side Main Street, a program of West Virginia State University Extension Service, is hosting a public art project, "Go West!," designed to showcase Charleston's West Side through the development of a mural to be mounted on a retaining wall in the 1500 block of Washington Street West, in Charleston.
The project is a community education and participation project that will involve a center section of each of six panels designed by a professional artist and surrounded by tiles painted by community members.
Local artists for the project will be selected this month, and work scheduled to begin in June. An installation date of early fall has been set for the mural.
The Sustainable Kanawha Valley Initiative and The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation is funding the public art project.
Contact Pat McGill, director of West Side Main Street, at 304-720-3161 or direc...@westsidemainstreet.org.
To have your announcement included in Arts Notes, e-mail sara.bu...@wvgazette.com or send it to Arts Notes, The Charleston Gazette, 1001 Virginia St. E., Charleston, WV 25301. Deadline for inclusion in the Sunday Gazette-Mail is the Tuesday before Sunday publication.
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