From These Hills 2003: Southwest Virginia Artists & Their Neighbors

March 07, 2003 - August 17, 2003

United Company Contemporary Regional Art Gallery

Exhibit Details

Celebrating the diversity of artistic talent in the Southern Appalachian Highlands, From These Hills: Southwest Virginia Artists & Their Neighbors is a major exhibition of new works by artists working in all media in Southwest Virginia, Northeast Tennessee, Western North Carolina, Southern West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. The 2003 exhibition will open in The United Company Contemporary Regional Gallery of William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon,Virginia on March 7, 2003 and will continue through August 17, 2003. It will then travel to the Portsmouth Museums, Courthouse Galleries in Tidewater, Va., and finally to the Caton Merchant Family Gallery, Center for the Arts of Greater Manassas in Northern Va.

 

This exhibition will be guest curated by Andrea Polla, former Exhibition Coordinator for the McLean Project for the Arts, McClean, Va.and currently an independent curator. It will feature work by Steven Bickley, Ole Bye, Joseph Champagne, Virginia Derryberry, Kathy Gibian, Charles Goolsby, Marilyn Pettit Hower, Elizabeth Johns, Jan Knipe, Jon Mehlferber, Catherine Murray, Neil Staples, Suzanne Stryk, and David Underwood.