Artist members’ work on display in annual exhibit at Arts Center
The Randolph County Community Arts Center is showcasing the works of current RCCAC artist members in its Annual Member’s Exhibit. The exhibit will run weekdays through June 16, with weekend hours to be announced.
The exhibit features 27 artists and a total of 52 works, in a variety of media. Artist members exhibiting are from Randolph, Barbour, Tucker, Kanawha, and Monongalia counties, as well as one artist member from Connecticut.
"The Members Exhibit is an event we look forward to each spring,” said RCCAC Executive Director Beth King. “This exhibit gives the Arts Center and the community an opportunity to celebrate the work of many of our local artists."
Artist memberships to the Randolph County Community Arts Center are available beginning at the $30 level and up. "Not only are Arts Center member artists eligible to participate in this annual exhibit but they also receive many other benefits with their membership,” King said. “And for those artists that choose to offer their works for sale, we almost always see works from each show sell, particularly from this exhibit."
Membership provides artists with a variety of opportunities, such as inclusion on the RCCAC Artist Registry on the Arts Center’s Web site; reduced entry fee to the RCCAC’s Annual Juried Gala Exhibit and the RCCAC/Seneca Trail Artists Guild Mountain State Forest Festival Exhibit; participation in the RCCAC Annual Artist Market; notification of grant opportunities for artists; and other benefits as well. More information is available on the RCCAC Web site, www.randolpharts.org.
Baskets are among the works shown during the Annual Members Exhibit, including two reed baskets by Marian Hanscom.
Pottery featured includes Untitled / Jar and Untitled / Bowl, two stoneware works by Susan Pell; and Untitled / Vase and Untitled / Urn, two stoneware works by Jill Scanlon.
Sculpture in the exhibit includes Dark Sun, a terra cotta by Margo Blevin, and Persephone, a clay work by Joan Toy Kefover.
The exhibit features two boxes, titled Mother Earth Pulls the Sun Closer to Earth and Flora, Goddess of Spring, made of wood, copper and acrylic, by Paul and Brenda Bonnes.
Woodwork on display includes Bud Vase and Walnut Bowl with Inlace, both by David Shombert.
Encaustic paintings on display include Dolly Sods #1 and Untitled, both by Chet Lowther.
Oil paintings include Race Car by Michael Doig, Down to the Sea by Don Hall, and Adapt and In Full Fig, both by June Myles.
Watercolor paintings in the exhibit include John 8: 1-11 by Brad Basil; Cheat Mountain Club and Sunflower, both by Sarah Ferguson; Midgely Canyon and Tlaquepaque Tower, both by Donell McCoy; "Beach" and "Lake", both by Ken Waddell; East Coast Rocks, a watercolor on aquaboard by Monica Wilkins; and
The exhibit also includes Winter Thunder and Winter Storm, two watercolor and oil pastel paintings, both by Wendy Clark.
Also on display is Twin Peaks, a Tempera painting on paper, by Kevin Woodcock.
Included in the exhibit are Fruits of the Spirit, an acrylic painting by Brad Basil; Wind Dancer and Dancing with the Gray Lady, two acrylic and oil pastels on canvas, both by Ruth Blackwell Rogers; Spring Green on Upper Shavers Fork and March View of Laurel Mountain 2010, two acrylic paintings on canvas, both by Kylie Proudfoot Payne; Marie's Magic Morning, and Where Duncan Used to Live, two acrylic paintings by Larisa Wells; Hot Poppies, an acrylic painting by Monica Wilkins; and Primordial Landscape, an acrylic painting on paper, by Kevin Woodcock.
"Shannon's Way", a pencil drawing by Joan Toy Kefover, is also included in the exhibit.
Textile works in the exhibit include Leaving the Garden and Fault Lines and Planets, both by Lisbet Okun.
Mixed media works on display include Sunset, Banyan Tree by Margo Blevin, and Turkey Splendor by Maggi Rhudy.
Ramps Rhapsody, a paper cut lino print by Maggi Rhudy, is also included in the exhibit.
Also on display are Going Upstream and See the Word, two works incorporating wood, acrylic, and recycled and found materials, both by Holly Hinkle.
Other works included in the exhibit are Rock of Dreams and Emerald Rock, made of rocks, wool and gold thread, both by Leslie Henderson.
Photographs on display include Gulf Gulls and Sedona Sunset, two photos by Ken McCoy; and Boat Reflected and Boat Reflected 2, two digital photos by Marjory Moses.
Also on exhibit through June 16 in the Arts Center’s Maxwell Gallery is “Suzan Morgan, Fit to be Dyed”, a solo exhibit by artist Suzan Morgan.
The Randolph County Community Arts Center, a non-profit organization promoting and supporting the arts in Randolph County and the surrounding areas, is located at the corner of Randolph Avenue and Park Street in Elkins. Please share your thoughts and suggestions with us.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
RCCAC is committed to providing accessibility to individuals with disabilities. If you are in need of an accommodation, please contact our office in advance. Call the RCCAC office at 637-2355 or log onto www.randolpharts.org for more information.
