
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, January 26, 1995                   TAG: 9503100010
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-6   EDITION: METRO 
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EXHIBIT IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF ZOO

Animal lovers should find an interesting innovation in an exhibit at the Salem Museum that is open through March 4.

The exhibit, titled ``Charles Smith's Zoo,'' is a collection of 19 fanciful and innovative woodblock prints by Smith, an artist who was born in 1893 in the Waynesboro area.

Mary Hill, director of the museum, said the exhibit shows how images of many different kinds of animals in various poses can be created with wood blocks of many rectangles, triangles and ovals. The exhibit was put together by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is traveling around the state for display in local museums.

Also on exhibit at the museum, Hill said, are drawings selected from more than 100 entries in the museum's contest to select an official mascot. The contest was open to elementary school children throughout the Roanoke area.

Hill said the museum will hold a public reception at 2 p.m. Feb.18 to announce a winner.

In conjunction with the zoo exhibit, Hill said a "Block-Art Fun-Shop" will be held Feb.4 for children ages 12 and younger. Participants will make their own block paintings in the same manner as those in the zoo exhibit.

The workshop will run from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Hill said, and will be free. Spaces are limited, and Hill said parents must reserve spaces by calling the museum.

Another upcoming event at the museum will be "Zoo Speak: A Reading of Animal Poems." This free event will be March 2 at 7 p.m. under the sponsorship of Artemis, a poetry society.

by CNB