ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, June 11, 1996 TAG: 9606110030
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 3 EDITION: METRO
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra is taking requests from its listeners for its Pops by Request concert June 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Salem Civic Center.
Listeners may make 10 song selections from the categories of pop singles, movie themes, Broadway themes and TV themes. The most requested songs will be declared the winners, and a full orchestra version of each winner will be performed by the orchestra.
Official ballots are available from the symphony offices, Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Ave., Suite 200, Roanoke, Va. 24016. Voting closes June 15. Call 343-9127.
Art exhibit|
in Newport News
The Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News is accepting entries for its Juried Exhibition 1996: Artists of Virginia to be held Oct. 5 to Nov. 10.
The exhibit is open to all artists currently living in Virginia. Slides, entry forms and fees are due by July 7. Artists may submit up to three slides of original works in any media.
Approximately $5,000 in cash prizes will be awarded.
For entry forms or more information, call (804) 596-8175.
Artist in residence|
at Abingdon studio|
ABINGDON - Portrait artist Vicars "Vicky" Lynn McKinney is artist in residence at the Studio I Arts Depot this month.
Perhaps her most-viewed portrait so far is that of Rex Partington, former artistic director at Barter Theatre, where it now hangs. McKinney has been commissioned to paint portraits of singer B.J. Thomas for his music hall in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and the late actor Randolph Scott, a native of Charlotte, N.C.
McKinney is a 1978 graduate of the Harris School of Art in Tennessee, has studied extensively with Ron Taylor at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, and with portrait artists and teachers Cedric and Joanette Engeli of Maryland. In 1994, she was selected to study with the Engelis at the Cape Cod (Mass.) School of Art and was one of 20 artists chosen by Everett Raymond Kinstler for a master's workshop at the National Academy in New York.
The Arts Depot is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, or by appointment by calling 628-9091.
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