Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 25, 1995 TAG: 9503020004
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The Annual Roanoke City Art Show opens Friday with a reception and awards ceremony from 5-7 p.m. in the first floor gallery of the Art Museum of Western Virginia, Center in the Square, Roanoke.
Sixty artists from the Blue Ridge region will be represented, chosen from entries of 145 artists by juror Jack Cowart, deputy director/ chief curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Cowart will participate in the presentation of $1,500 in awards, including a $500 Best in Show, sponsored by the City of Roanoke, and a $100 People's Choice Award, voted by the public during the exhibit and presented at the end of the show.
Five $200 Awards of Excellence are sponsored this year by Blue Ridge Public Television, Frank L. Moose Jeweler, Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. and the Packett Group.
Participating artists include Ross Arkell and Donna Essig, Penhook; Judy Bates and Marie Hofsess, Salem; Ben Flora, Boones Mill; Roy Baugher III, Mary Boxley Bullington, Page Chichester, David Dooley, Billy Doughty, Criis Geer, David Diaz Guerrero, Katherine Guy, E. Antoinette Hale, Laura Horner, Susan Jamison, Stephanie Klein-Davis, Pat Lawson, Robert Lunsford, Peter Martin, Jennie McBride, Tim Shepherd, Robert Sulkin, J. Brian Welch, William G. White, Betty Williamson and Jennifer Willier of Roanoke; Susan Bidwell, Huddleston; Jan Bos, Schiao-Feng Chou, Joe Kelley, Sarah Kidd, Mary Irwin Moore and Halide Salam, Blacksburg; Charlie Brouwer and Thomas Thielemann, Radford; William Clarke, Rocky Mount; Jamie Nervo Cohan, New Castle; Vera Dickerson, Troutville; Beverly Garraghty, Montvale; George Ann Johnson, Narrows; Kazhia Kolb, Riner; Barbara Norman Lashley, Vinton; David Lavelle, Hardy; Jon Mehlferber and Suzanne Stryk,Bristol; M.E. Plitt, Clifton Forge; Tomas Provo, Callaway; Jeff Stockberger, Harrisonburg; James Underwood, Bedford; Twyla Vernon, Verona; Pat West, Pembroke; Linda White, Daleville; Barbara Cornett, Letty Frazier, Patricia Harrington, Martine Lanoe, Janet Shaffer, Susan Talbot-Elliot and Rosalie Day White, Lynchburg.
The exhibit is presented by the Arts Council of the Blue Ridge in cooperation with the City of Roanoke and the Art Museum of Western Virginia. The show will be in display until May 21.
For more information, call 342-5790.
Local Colors
Local Colors, the Roanoke area's multicultural celebration, will be held April 8 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the city's historic market and in Center in the Square.
The event draws people of all cultures together for a day of celebration, featuring the music, crafts, language, costumes, food and people of more than 25 ethnic and cultural groups.
A Parade of Nations at 9:30 a.m. will start on Church Avenue and continue through the Historic Farmers Market, followed by an opening ceremony at 10 a.m. at Campbell Avenue and Wall Street.
Entertainment will include an International Fashion Show, the Lion Dance, Dancers from India and martial-arts demonstrations. Foods and wares of all nations will be sold from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Demonstrations of international children's games and crafts, storytelling, special events and performances will be located inside Center in the Square throughout the day.
Roanoke first-graders' paintings on cultural diversity will be exhibited in the center April 8-19.
Local Colors is a joint event of Center in the Square and Downtown Roanoke Incorporated. For more information, call 342-5700 or 342-2028.
Want to be a 'toon?
Children can trade in their toy guns for a chance to be on a Saturday morning cartoon.
``Reboot,'' which airs on WSET-Channel 13, announces a program called ``Non-Violence Builds Character.'' Children can send in a toy gun along with a letter of drawing explaining why it is wrong to play with violent toys. The child whose entry is selected will have a computer-generated character created of himself on the show next season.
``Reboot'' is produced entirely by computers using computer generated imagery and 3D animation. It follows three main characters living in a magical electronic world.
Send entries to: ``Non-Violence Builds Character,'' c/o Jericho Productions, 924 Broadway, New York N.Y. 10010. Entry deadline is June 15.
The guns will be donated to art and theater groups for props and materials.
For more information, call (212) 260-3744.
by CNB