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

DATE: SATURDAY, January 28, 1995                   TAG: 9501300018
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-11   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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AROUND NEW RIVER

PULASKI - Charles Goolsby will return to the Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley as its featured artist with an exhibit through February.

A meet-the-artist reception will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 5 at the center's gallery at 21 W. Main St. in Pulaski.

The exhibit will feature paintings and prints that have their sources in the landscape around his former home in Raphine, along with a dog and a gun.

``The dog and landscape are personal subject choices. I use the gun as a symbolic element to raise larger thematic issues that transcend mere subject,'' he said, such as ``transition, mortality, isolation, unexpected conflict, confrontation and naivete.''

The gun, he hastened to add, ``belongs to a friend.''

The center hosted Goolsby's work in 1986 and 1991. Since then, Goolsby has earned a master of arts degree at James Madison University, where he had been awarded graduate teaching assistantships for three years. He is now visiting assistant professor of art and acting department chair in the Emory & Henry College Art Department.

His work has been shown by the Maryland Federation of Art, the Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke College's Olin Gallery, James Madison University's Artworks Gallery, the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, and Virginia Tech's Reynolds Homestead in Critz.

Further information is available by calling the center at 980-7363.

Donates papers

RADFORD - Minnie Fitting, a great granddaughter of Dr. John Blair Radford, has donated family papers to the city library.

The papers include personal letters, Civil War documents, and school records dating from 1830-1865.

Some of the papers are on display at the library. It's open Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.