Sponsored by Tracie Heavner and Jim Frith, Olivia and Pres Garrett, Melody Margrave, Joan and Monty Montgomery, Kim and Jason Spratley, Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust, Lynwood Artists, Sovah Health, and What's Your Sign.
The Lynwood Artists Gallery features work by the Reynolds Homestead Weavers Exchange.
The group was founded in 1985 by Cecelia Cassady and Johanna Britt. Since that time, the group has grown from informal sessions where members worked on personal projects to organized meetings with programs and workshops led by weavers of regional and national reputation. The group meets bi-monthly at the Community Engagement Center at Reynolds Homestead in Critz, Virginia.
The Lynwood Artists Gallery is curated by Lynwood Artists, an organization for practicing artists in the Martinsville-Henry County area. Its members share a desire to stimulate understanding and enjoyment of fine art and the artistic process, while providing area artists with opportunities to exhibit and further develop their talents.
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Sponsored by Tracie Heavner and Jim Frith, Olivia and Pres Garrett, Melody Margrave, Joan and Monty Montgomery, Kim and Jason Spratley, Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust, Lynwood Artists, Sovah Health, and What's Your Sign.
Lauren Thornhill is a knitter from Collinsville, Virginia. Her piece "A Crow's Gift" won Best in Show in "Expressions 2024," the annual open-entry exhibition presented by Lynwood Artists and Piedmont Arts.
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Sponsored by Tracie Heavner and Jim Frith, Olivia and Pres Garrett, Melody Margrave, Joan and Monty Montgomery, Kim and Jason Spratley, Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust, Lynwood Artists, Sovah Health, and What's Your Sign.
In this series of work, Betsy Hale Bannan examines the microcosm of the airport and uses the act of seeing the earth from above to explore a sense of place. She considers the aesthetics of infrastructure by focusing on the unexpected geometry of hard surfaces, the choreography taking place on them, and the scale of these vast spaces.
Airports are liminal spaces that people experience for mostly fleeting, but sometimes prolonged periods of time. They are both nowhere and everywhere; chaotic yet rigorously controlled. Nobody “goes” to the airport. It is a necessary conduit to somewhere else and not a destination in and of itself. They are designed to shape the way we move from the moment we enter them. Once you are “airside,” you enter a state of suspension, and the rhythm and rituals of coming and going take over. You are physically still, but technically, you are now between places. Normal responsibilities disappear. You become anonymous yet are carefully documented.
Runways are places of both departure and arrival; of waiting, then velocity. They are standardized, yet no two are configured the same. Markings, lighting, and unexpected colors and geometry present abstract pictorial possibilities. Ramp agents and support vehicles perform a choreographed scene fit for the stage, emphasizing the scale shift between humans, aircraft, and commercial space.
These many backstage elements of the airport are often overlooked, but serve to highlight the larger picture of air travel and its complex, multifaceted infrastructure.
Bannan is a professor in the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech. She holds a BA in studio art from Virginia Tech and an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the country.
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Sponsored by Tracie Heavner and Jim Frith, Olivia and Pres Garrett, Melody Margrave, Joan and Monty Montgomery, Kim and Jason Spratley, Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust, Lynwood Artists, Sovah Health, and What's Your Sign.
In this multidisciplinary installation, Lisa Beth Robinson explores interconnectedness and vanishings, particularly in relation to the environment. Her work is propelled by the hidden lines she sees sewing the universe together. Sometimes close, sometimes loose, there are parallels and commonalities to be found among these lines. By bringing them to light, she weaves a space where viewers can see themselves as part of a larger whole, finding meaning, connection, and agency over life’s outcomes.
Robinson is a professor in the School of Art and Design at East Carolina University. She is the proprietor of Somnambulist Tango Press, where she makes books, broadsides, fine art, installations, and curates exhibitions. She is a member of the Catching a Wave collective, a group of interdisciplinary researchers from universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands who combine expertise in the environmental and social sciences with mixed media, fine art, and poetry. Her research presents Colony Collapse Disorder as a metaphor for global sociopolitical acts.
Her work has been exhibited across the country and is part of the collections of the New York Public Library, the University of Chicago, Brown University, Emory University, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Sponsored by Helen S. and Charles G. Patterson Jr. Charitable Foundation Trust, Lynwood Artists, and What's Your Sign.
"Expressions" is an open-entry exhibition presented annually by Piedmont Arts and Lynwood Artists. In honor of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, artists were asked to submit work focusing on the theme “America250.”
The exhibition offers an innovative and meaningful artistic experience for both artists and the community by transforming the milestone of America’s 250th anniversary into a platform for contemporary creative expression. The exhibition invites artists to explore the concept of revolution in both historical and modern contexts — encouraging new interpretations of freedom, identity, progress, and the evolving American experience.
Guests will encounter a wide range of perspectives and artistic voices, revealing how revolutionary ideals continue to inspire creativity and conversation today. By bringing people together through art, the exhibition underscores the ongoing revolution of thought that defines the American spirit.
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