Heart of Virginia - 1999 : Saturday Downtown

The Outdoor Art Show Celebrates 25 Years Around Longwood's Rotunda and Colonnade, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Sponsored in part by Davenport & Company LLC.

The Art Show began 25 years ago and was so successful that four years later the Heart of Virginia Festival grew up around it. It has remained the mainstay of the Festival, drawing artists from up and down the east coast and providing high-quality art to Festival goers from through central Virginia.
	American Penworks

	Situated along High Street on the shaded lawns in front of the Longwood College Rotunda, the 25th Outdoor Fine Arts Show begins at 9 a.m.. The works of many artists will be on exhibit for show and sale and will be professionally judged for over $2500 in prize money. The award ceremony beings around 2 p.m..
October Rain by Lloyd Walter Slaughter

In addition to the competition awards there will be several Merit and Purchase Awards, including the Hampden-Sydney College Fine Arts Award, the Buckingham Arts Council Awards, and the Longwood Visual Arts Center Award. These awards total over $500. A reception for the artists, sponsored by Central Virginia Arts, will follow the show.
	Porcelain Baking Dish by Darcy Phillips

Artists exhibiting in this year's show

Avis Addleman, Farmville.
Eldridge Bagley, Victoria.
Gail Barnes, Drakes Branch.
John Bell, Chesapeake.
Sandra Breil, Farmville.
Jacqueline Camire, Norfolk.
Janet Cardwell, New Market.
Mary Ann Carlton, Farmville.
Cora Carter, Farmville.
Dora Chaffin, Pamplin.
William Clark, Blackstone.
Charles Cooper, Crewe
Richard Cruise, Moneta.
Missy DeRegibus, Farmville.
Margaret DuBois, Farmville.
Tray Eppes, Cullen.
Diane Faison, Keysville.

Shari Glass, Port Republic.
Nancy Green, Victoria.
Ronald Grissom, Farmville.
Spencer Hayden, Rice.
George Henley, Farmville.
Ron Holyfield, Cumberland.
John Jessiman, Appomattox.
Ron King, Chesterfield.
Judith Ligon, Farmville.
Nancy Lockwood, Farmville.
Edward May, Howardsville.
Deborah McClintock, Hampden-Sydney.
Chrys Meador, Salem.
Don Meador, Salem.
Charles Norton, Pendleton, SC.

Darcy Phillips, Charlottesville.
Jerry Plumley, Chesterfield.
Lloyd Slaughter, Falls Church.
Jennifer Smith, Rice.
Bernice Sprinkle, Rice.
Robert Stanley, Cumberland.
L.B. Taylor, Jr., Williamsburg.
James Underwood, Bedford.
Luleen White, Stauton.
Linda Lee Wilkes, Gladstone.
Robert Wilkes, Gladstone.
Kay Williams, Cumberland.
Francis Wood, Jr., Farmville.
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville.
and additional artists.

Music at the Art Show

Back in Bluegrass Performing at the Longwood Bicentennial Park this year is Back in Bluegrass. We are glad to have the group back with us again. They bring in many years of experience in bluegrass, performing a full spectrum from the old traditional to the "newgrass". Members of the group include Jack Woodall from Appomattox on upright bass, David Woodall from Buckingham playing Mandolin, Wilkie Chaffin of Darlington Heights on guitar, and Earl Carter of Farmville on banjo. Four-part harmony is a specialty for this band.
	Back In Bluegrass performing at the '98 Heart Of Virginia Festival
Also performing at the Longwood Bicentennial Park this year will be The Southside Jazz Quartet who will be onstage at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m..

Longwood Center for the Visual Arts

The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, located at the corner of Main and Third Street in historic downtown Farmville, is the art museum of Longwood College. The Center is operated without state funds and is dependent on financial and volunteer contributions. In addition to an active exhibition schedule, the Center offers Community Art School, partnerships with area schools, lectures, demonstrations, gallery talks, internships and an Artist-of-the-Month exhibit at Cheese & Company located one half-block from the Center. The Center is responsible for overseeing the College art collection, which includes a permanent collection of Chinese antiquities given by Dr. and Bernie Rowe located in the Lancaster Building.

During the time of the Festival, the Center is hosting "Process, Concept, Solutions", the museum's annual Virginia-wide invitational exhibition, in the Bishop and Sully galleries. This dramatic exhibition features sculpture by seven established Virginia artists. The Third Street Gallery is featuring "Sacred Spaces: Work by Jackie Wall since 1987". The Director will be on hand to answer visitors' inquiries. On display at the Outdoor Art Show, the Center will exhibit photographs from the exhibition, "Civil War Medicine", that was on view 1997-98 and then toured to two other sites. Center volunteers will be available to interpret this exhibition.