Calendar

There’s no place like home! Sale on all Abingdon related general merchandise, including O Winston Link Day on the Abingdon Branch posters, Abingdon aprons, wooden models of the courthouse and much more.

Location
Looking Glass Museum Store

Opening Day for Panoramic Gallery Artist Jason Sabbides, Johnson City, TN

As an artist with an unlimited imagination controlled only by the infinite universe that surrounds them, he or she finds only limitless possibilities.

Sabbides joined the United States Army Infantry immediately following his high school graduation. He will receive his MFA from East Tennessee State University in the Spring of 2012.

This exhibition runs May 1st through June 3rd.

Location
Panoramic Gallery

Dates: Thursdays, April 12- May17, 6-8:30 pm

Age: Adults   Cost: $150 (supplies not included)

This is a class for beginning and experienced painters. Sam Morrow will direct students as they learn how to use this classic medium. Students will develop skills while working on individual projects with guidance and critique by the instructor. This studio class is highly motivating for all who attend. Fees are non-refundable. Register by emailing sam.morrow57@gmail.com

Location
Adult Classroom

Instructor
Sam Morrow

Panoramic Gallery Reception for Jason Sabbides

As an artist with an unlimited imagination controlled only by the infinite universe that surrounds them, he or she finds only limitless possibilities.

Sabbides joined the United States Army Infantry immediately following his high school graduation. He will receive his MFA from East Tennessee State University in the Spring of 2012.

This exhibition runs May 1st through June 3rd.

Location
Panoramic Gallery

Dates: Thursday May 3, 6:30-8 pm

Age: Adult                  Cost: Free

An informal monthly gathering for artisans to network and discuss current topics in the making and business of craft will take place at William King Museum in the Library on the 3rd level.

Location
Library

Day at the Downs

Hosts: Scott & Sheila Pack and Dan & Barbara Hendrickson

Date: Saturday, May 5 from 4-7pm

Location: 14905 Springview Ridge

Bristol, VA 24202

Cost: $100/person, 125 guest maximum

Attire: Derby Attire

And… they’re off! Join us for a day at the races dressed in your festive Derby attire. Watch the 138th Run for the Roses, while feasting on traditional Derby fare.

Student Gallery

March 25-May 6

VHCC  Art Students

Dates: Sunday, May 6-20, 2-4pm

Ages: All ages!                      Cost: $75

Kids put on your lab coats and get out your beakers! During this series of Sunday classes children will delight in fun and creative art processes that emphasize science discovery.  The book, Science Arts: Discovering Science Through Art Experiences, will be utilized as inspiration.  Projects will include: exploring changes in states of matter through a melting point ice painting, erect an ice and salt sculpture, study the process of fossilization by casting a clay fossil, blast into an exploration of space with a sugar moon craft, digest the food chain as we make glow in dark food, and experiment with a concoction of edible finger paint.  Sign up your little Leonardo today! Contact instructor Pamela Hagy via e-mail: pamelahagy@gmail.com

Instructor
Pamela Hagy

Dates: Thursdays, April 12- May17, 6-8:30 pm

Age: Adults   Cost: $150 (supplies not included)

This is a class for beginning and experienced painters. Sam Morrow will direct students as they learn how to use this classic medium. Students will develop skills while working on individual projects with guidance and critique by the instructor. This studio class is highly motivating for all who attend. Fees are non-refundable. Register by emailing sam.morrow57@gmail.com

Location
Adult Classroom

Instructor
Sam Morrow

Girls Night Out: Stepping Stones for the Garden with Lindsey Holderfield

Participants may bring broken dishes or ceramics to personalize stepping stones

Last GNO event until September!

Dates: Thursday May 10, 7-8:30 pm

Age: Adults    Cost: $25

Calling all Girls! It is your night to unleash your creative spirit and discover your inner artist while have fun with other women doing the same thing. An art instructor will lead you through the process of making something beautifully hand crafted to take home with you at the end of the evening. All materials provided. Feel free to bring a beverage to sip or some nibbles to eat while you create. Pre- registration required. Call 276-628-5005, ext 114 or email kgibian@wkmuseum.org to register.

Location
First Floor

Instructor
Lindsey Holderfield

Join us on Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12 for our Spring Cleaning Garage Sale! We’ll be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and it will be located in the white building directly behind the Museum. For more information, please call us at 276-628-5005 or email Katie Carrico at kcarrico@wkmuseum.org.

Location
White Building behind the Museum

Join us on Friday, May 11 and Saturday, May 12 for our Spring Cleaning Garage Sale! We’ll be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. and it will be located in the white building directly behind the Museum. For more information, please call us at 276-628-5005 or email Katie Carrico at kcarrico@wkmuseum.org.

Location
White Building behind the Museum

Washington County Senior Student Show

May 12 – June 2012

Student Gallery

Location
First Floor

Thursday, December 15
5-6pm Members and Lenders, 6-8pm Public Reception for  Dress-Up: A Regional Portrait of Childhood

In conjunction with the 2012 program MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Children in the Arts, William King Museum will playfully evoke the lives and adventures of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century children growing up in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. At all social and economic levels, children of this time period dressed like miniature adults, with only slight differentiations in lengths of skirts or knickers.  This exhibition will explore the interaction of art and fashion with children’s lives in this region, through examples of historic regional costume and period portraiture.

Dress-Up: A Regional Portrait of Childhood

Dec. 16, 2011 to May 13, 2012

Price-Strongwell Galleries

Location
Price-Strongwell Galleries

Dates: Sunday, May 6-20, 2-4pm

Ages: All ages!                      Cost: $75

Kids put on your lab coats and get out your beakers! During this series of Sunday classes children will delight in fun and creative art processes that emphasize science discovery.  The book, Science Arts: Discovering Science Through Art Experiences, will be utilized as inspiration.  Projects will include: exploring changes in states of matter through a melting point ice painting, erect an ice and salt sculpture, study the process of fossilization by casting a clay fossil, blast into an exploration of space with a sugar moon craft, digest the food chain as we make glow in dark food, and experiment with a concoction of edible finger paint.  Sign up your little Leonardo today! Contact instructor Pamela Hagy via e-mail: pamelahagy@gmail.com

Instructor
Pamela Hagy

Flavor of Fashion

Hosts: Stella Gilmer, and Debbie Smith

Date: Wednesday, May 16 at 11am

Location: 238 Barter Dr., Abingdon, VA

Cost: $60/person, 24 guest maximum

Attire: Dressy Casual

What better way to enjoy the latest fashions from some of Abingdon’s finest shops than to be part of the glamour at a brunch, enjoying luscious food and specialty drinks.

Date: Wednesday May 16

Ages: 4 & 5           Cost: $7 per session

On the third Wednesday of the month, sip coffee with friends while your preschooler engages in an hour-long art adventure at theWilliamKingMuseum. Young students enjoy gallery tours and art making; moms enjoy coffee and conversation.

Dates: Sunday, May 6-20, 2-4pm

Ages: All ages!                      Cost: $75

Kids put on your lab coats and get out your beakers! During this series of Sunday classes children will delight in fun and creative art processes that emphasize science discovery.  The book, Science Arts: Discovering Science Through Art Experiences, will be utilized as inspiration.  Projects will include: exploring changes in states of matter through a melting point ice painting, erect an ice and salt sculpture, study the process of fossilization by casting a clay fossil, blast into an exploration of space with a sugar moon craft, digest the food chain as we make glow in dark food, and experiment with a concoction of edible finger paint.  Sign up your little Leonardo today! Contact instructor Pamela Hagy via e-mail: pamelahagy@gmail.com

Instructor
Pamela Hagy

Shining Light: Folk Artists Nancy Johnson and Minnie Ma Scyphers

 June 1- December 30, 2012

Price-Strongwell Galleries

Nancy Johnson is a studio artist at Abingdon’s Arts Depot. Much of her work is inspired by family history and childhood memory. She also references the early history of African-Americans from the region and beyond. Johnson incorporates a range of materials including paint, glitter, stickers, pencil shavings and paper. Her gift for story-telling is at once surprising and amusing, candid and heartfelt.

Minnie Ma Scyphers’s descendants generously donated several paintings to the William King Museum in 2010. Her landscapes are typically painted from memory, but she also sketched and painted scenes on site.  Her interior scenes, of pleasant homes with paintings on the walls and neat furnishings, seem to be of her fantasy home.  In one of her two books of poetry, she stated, “I do not want to bury any talent which I might have; what little light I have, I want to let it shine.”