Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 4, 1993 TAG: 9305040359
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: Southwest Bureau
DATELINE: CHILHOWIE LENGTH: Short
For a while, it appeared that some of its long-standing structures would be demolished if nobody bought them when they were offered for sale last year. But buyers have established new businesses in many of them.
Retired Pulaski art teacher Edna Love has opened The Art Place for art exhibits and classes.
She is a Chilhowie native now living in Pulaski, where she has been active in the Fine Arts Center of the New River Valley. She already is teaching some art classes herself at the center, and is lining up other artists for other courses and workshops in various art media.
Because she lives two counties away, Love cannot keep The Art Place open daily. Its regular days to be open are Thursday and Friday of each week.
The center will have a different exhibit each month, featuring area artists. Love hopes to find an artist who could rent part of the building as a studio, and be on hand to extend the hours it is open. For now, the Art Place is serving as a showplace for all types of artists from Southwest Virginia.
A few doors away is the new Town House Gallery, opened by Marion lawyer Danny Lowe and his wife, Glenda. It will be open Fridays and Saturdays for now, offering items related to Southwest Virginia history for viewing and for sale.
The former Piggly Wiggly store is to be reopened as the Chilhowie Pizza Factory. The building is owned by Berry Enterprises.
by CNB