Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 27, 1994 TAG: 9408180016
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CHILHOWIE - A lawyer, educator, furniture-maker and several retirees are among the artists with work on display through July at The Art Place in Chilhowie.
The Art Place was created by Edna Love, who now lives in Pulaski but returns to her hometown in Smyth County to open her facility for visitors from 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays and 10 a.m. to noon Fridays.
Visits by groups can be arranged at other times.
Danny Lowe, a lawyer who has opened an American Indian art shop in Chilhowie near Love's enterprise, has art on display in Love's July exhibit. So does Arthur J. Brown, an Appalachian folk art painter in his 80s who has exhibited in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
Others include Virginia Department of Corrections employee Johnny Russell, who does carvings of animals in walnut; furniture-maker James Brown who makes one-of-a-kind pieces; Dwight Baker, an assistant principal who works in the art of paper-cutting, and Charles Heninger, a retiree who carves unusual pieces out of maple.
\ Money for museum
The Virginia Museum of Transportation has received $228,000 from the federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act to renovate and construct improvements to the Roanoke museum's front facade. A new front entry will be constructed and a new neon sign will be placed above the new entry. Also, a pedestrian plaza will be built between Second and Third streets.
Virginia Tech's College of Architecture and Urban Studies and Hayes, Seay, Mattern & Mattern are working with the museum in planning the improvements.
Symphony gets grants
The Roanoke Symphony has received two grants from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, one for its music program and one for the regional jazz program.
The grants will help support the engagements of jazz great Marian McPartland and mezzo-soprano Carolyn Sebron, featured soloists in the orchestra's 1994-95 season. The Marian McPartland Trio will perform a new composition commissioned by the orchestra on March 20 and Sebron will perform with the orchestra on April 24th.
\ Museum accredited
The Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville has been accredited by the American Association of Museums.
Accreditation certifies that a museum operates according to the highest standards set forth by the museum profession, manages its collections responsibly, and provides quality service to the public. Less than two percent of museums nationwide have been award AAM accreditation.
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