DATE: Saturday, August 16, 1997             TAG: 9708150096

SECTION: DAILY BREAK             PAGE: E7   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY TERESA ANNAS, STAFF WRITER 

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OUTDOOR ART SHOW RETURNS TO OCEAN VIEW BEACH PARK

OCEAN VIEW Beach Park is alive with art this weekend.

Today and Sunday, the small bay front park is host to the Chesapeake Bay Art Association's 35th annual Outdoor Art Show.

About 50 regional artists will be on hand from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Admission and parking are free.

Stop by and meet Helen Singleton, 98, a much-admired painter who has been exhibiting at outdoor shows for the past two decades. Her work has an outsider, inner-directed feel; her global travels have provided fodder for her art.

Portsmouth ceramicist Wayne Potrafka will be showing his ceramic bas-relief torsos. Norfolk oil painter Red Rooster will be there, too, with his scenes of old Ocean View.

Also coming are photographer Paul M. Stevens of Achilles, Va., and Robyn Vasile of Virginia Beach, who crafts scenes from clothes dryer lint. Vasile is known as ``The Lint Lady.''

Among the usual prizes, the art association has two that are fairly unique. The Ellen B. McKinnon Award gives $50 to an artist who has never once earned a ribbon in an art show.

Also, the Sarah Constant Shrine Historical Award gives $100 to an artist for work with regional history as its subject. At least one artist plans to enter, said Mary Haase, show chairperson. That's Robyn Vasile, who has recreated an image of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - from dryer lint.

The park is at Ocean View Avenue near Granby Street, Norfolk.

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