8 July 2016 Program of Events

Image © copyright Dolly Holmes
8 July 2016 Program of Events
July Friday for the Arts! Features Great New Displays of Art, the Petersburg Music Festival, Thirteen Music Venues—and Exciting New Venues
The July 8, 2016 Friday for the Arts! brings us another wave of new venues, as well as music, art, entertainment, fun activities, food, refreshments, spirit, and spirits. There will be music in at least thirteen performing arts
venues, and there will be great exhibits at The Ward Center for Contemporary Art, the Library, the Chesterfield Gallery, Old Towne Studio 7, the Union Station, and the Petersburg Area Art League.
The Library will feature a new exhibit entitled All Things America, featuring work by Brenda Spencer and
Mildred Sexton. The Ward opens a new exhibits of work by Joey Northrop (Morena Bohemia Gallery) and
Grant Northrop in Ward Underground #31 and #32, and continues an important new installation by Rosamond Casey of Charlottesville, entitled Men in Suits: A Day on the Hill, as well as no fewer than ten other
gallery exhibits, including work by Carol Meese, Bonnie Koenig (with new work installed), Bobby English,
Jr.,, Mary Montague Sikes, James Timberlake, Clifton Dickens, Dolly Holmes, Mark Pehanich, Risegun
Bennett-Olomidun, Aimee Joyaux, and Terry Ammons, as well as at least twenty-five resident studio artists.
The Art League will be opening two exhibits: Popotillo Art: Inner Peace & Passion, featuring work by Martin
Gonzales, and Landscapes by Amy Barr. In addition, exhibits of work by Joey Northrop will be on display at
Andrade’s. An exhibit of new work by Trudi Dunn will continue at The Bistro. A retrospective exhibit of work
by Ken Graves will be shown at Abigail’s Antiques. Exhibits will be on display at the new Old Towne Studio
7. New artwork by the Tucker Family will be on display at Union Station. Artwork by Eugene Vango will be
on display at St. Paul’s. And the Chesterfield Gallery is displaying a new exhibit, Fragments, by Jasmine Mills.
The Grand Opening of Glenna Jean, and Soft Openings of Old Towne Studio 7 and Rajun Cajun are on
the schedule for this Friday. Steve Gay will set up his Studio 54 Photo Booth, at The Ward. The new I Want
This City To Be Wall, at 316 North Sycamore, and the new Before I Die Uptown Wall, at 16 North Sycamore,
will ready for Friday for the Arts! visitors to make their comments in chalk. Tantrum Tattoos will be offering free
henna tattoos. The Bucket Trade will be open in its new location, as will the Trapezium Brewery.
Sharron, G-Factor, Bertine Hardy, Yaminah Lhetreal, Potluck Band, FAV Band & Show, and Sud’n
Change Band & Show will be performing during the course of the evening at the Petersburg Music Festival
in the Triangle. Grammy nominee Cora Harvey Armstrong will be playing the keys at the Library. Soprano
Margaret Taylor Woods will be performing at St. Paul’s, the Cloud 9 Band at The Ward, the Shaun Peace
Band at Old Towne’s Alibi, Bobby Horne and C.W. Barr at Adelaid’s, Campbell’s Bridge at Old Towne
Studio 7, Rudy Faulkner & Friends at Croaker’s Spot, the Sinatra-style crooner Joe LaLuna at Maria’s, Steve
Brooks in the Martini Lounge at Wabi Sabi, and Sayer McShane in the Music Room at Wabi. Spoonful will
be performing on the patio at Andrade’s. Omar Faison will be playing his Afro-soulful jazzy sounds at Sixteen
West.
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Web Site and Facebook Page
Go to the Friday for the Arts! website at www.fridayforthearts.net for full particulars about the upcoming Friday
for the Arts!, including news stories, more photographs, background information, and an opportunity to send us
a suggestion. There you can also view or download a pdf of this flier. And go to our Friday for the Arts! Facebook
page for changes and corrections even up to a few hours before the event.
The Art Trolley for Friday for the Arts! Is Back!
The Friday for the Arts! Art Trolley is back! From six until ten, it will circuit the Downtown on a loop that will
go past the evening’s main attractions. Its regular daytime Downtown Loop service has already begun, looping
around Downtown Petersburg, with excursions to Virginia State University and Southpark Mall. 6:00-10:00 pm
during Friday for the Arts!
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Tenth Annual Petersburg Music Festival on the
Ave
Halifax Triangle, July 8-10
Friday Evening Events:
6:00 pm
Kid’s Fest, sponsored by the Kiwanis
Clubs and Believe-N-You
7:30 pmSharron
8:00 pmG-Factor
8:30 pm
Bertine Hardy
9:00 pm
New Artist Showcase: Yasminah
Lhetreal
9:30 pm
New Artist Showcase: Potluck Band
10:00 pm
New Artist Showcase: FAV Band &
Show
10:30 pm
Sud’n Change Band & Show
Petersburg Public Library
201 West Washington Street, (804) 733-2387
Opening Reception: New Exhibit: All Things America,
featuring photography by Brenda Spencer, who is also
showing her work at The Ward, and still life work by
Mildred Sexton. 6:00-8:00 pm.
Live Music: Grammy nominee Cora Harvey
Armstrong on the keys, though it is expected that the
artists will prevail on her to sing a few songs. She is
known as the Queen of Virginia Gospel, and has one of
the most powerful voices in Virginia. 6:00-8:00 pm.
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16 North Sycamore Street
Special Activity: Interactive Wall: Before I Die Uptown: Public Art Petersburg has moved its Before
I Die Wall uptown to this new location, in order to get another point of view. And, indeed, it has taken
on a different character. Everyone is free to respond to the question “Before I die I want to” with his or
her own answer, using the chalk that can be found on site.
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art
132 North Sycamore Street, (804) 793-8300, www.thewardcenter.com, Facebook: The Ward Center for Contemporary
Art
Continuing Exhibit: Mezzanine Gallery an Vestibule Window: Men in Suits:
A Day on the Hill. An installation by Rosamond Casey, of Charlottesville.
Men in Suits: A Day on the Hill is a visual parable of power and its trappings.
This installation of ten photomontages overlaid with painted Plexiglas and
arranged in sequence, traces an odyssey through the streets and halls of Capitol
Hill. Additional small, framed snapshots of figures in suits serve as rhythmic
counterpoints to the larger panels, and walk the viewer through a shadowy world
of fragile moments where men are poised to exert their influence. The images were
arranged into ten sequential panels that perform a Stations of the Cross allegory.
Beginning with Initiation and ending with Enter the Blue Dawn, the images are a
meditation on the human fragilities of power structures that bring on cataclysmic
change or compromise.
The male suit is a successful adaptation that has survived centuries of finetuning and minor variation with no fundamental breakdown of its form and
function. By design it expresses an unassailable authority while concealing a
myriad of behaviors. When the fabric folds at the joints the suit can suggest a
predatory strike, gathering energy for a spring to action, then it reclaims its perfect
columnar structure when the wearer stands. There are bird-like qualities in a
moving suit—a raucous flapping of leg folds against a wind, a tail feather turned
up, an alternation of openings and closings. When the folds collapse in the course
of things it can go limp and soft. These dark grey glyphs are so known to us they
go unnoticed, but the actions and inactions they enclose reverberate.
Raised in Washington, DC, by men in suits (father, uncle, stepfather [Ben Bradlee], grandfather) in the
1960s, Rosamond Casey returned home carrying a point-and-shoot camera to see what the men in charge on
the Hill were up to. She followed them in and out of conference rooms, hotel lobbies, Senate buildings, offices
and chambers. Casey has worked as an artist for more than twenty-five years. She has exhibited her painting,
calligraphy, book art, and gallery installations widely. Her solo exhibitions include the Burroughs-Chapin Art
Museum, Myrtle Beach; Triangle Gallery, Washington DC; McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville; and the
University of Virginia Art Museum. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Museum
for Women in the Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where she was the featured artist
and speaker. Her work is represented in a number of prestigious public collections in the United States, such
as those of the National Gallery of Art, The Melbert Cary Collection Graphic Arts at the Rochester Institute
of Technology, and the Library of Congress, in additional to private collections in such places as Canada, New
York, Los Angeles, and South Africa, where her work is part of the Jack Ginsberg Collection of Artist’s Books
in Johannisberg.
Casey has produced numerous unique artists’ books as well as four editioned artist’s books that reconfigure
her fine art installations into handmade enclosures that display images and accompanying text from her
shows. Her original art projects have been published in national journals such as Virginia Quarterly Review,
Calligraphy Review, Art Directions magazine, and Archipelago, an international online literary magazine.
Casey is a past president and member of the McGuffey Art Center and founder of Treehouse Book Arts in
Central Virginia, through which she has encouraged a revival in the arts related to the hand-made book and
taught numerous art seminars that convey her unique process-oriented approaches to drawing, mixed-media
painting and sculpture. She lives in Charlottesville.
A limited-edition, hand-made artist book complements the installation. It can be seen in one of the vestibule
windows.
Through August. Don’t miss!
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibit: Front Display Windows and The Underground: “Presence, Soul, and Existence”: An
Exhibit of Steel Sculpture by Bobby English, Jr. English, who lives in Baltimore and Petersburg, received a
BFA in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2011, and studied at the Studio Art
Centers International in Florence, Italy. He creates empowering, yet self-destructive metal and earth sculptures
inspired by world mythologies, ancestry, identity, dreams, and the dualities of nature. The exhibit at The Ward
Center focuses on his steel sculpture. His process is very laborious and exhausting, yet it is meditative and
spiritual. While creating sculpture, and even after completion, there is a dialogue happening between the form
and English’s body. The dialogue ultimately becomes mystic, almost ritualistic, thought-provoking performances
that he feels are channeled from the many mythological archetypes that he understands both from his own life
experiences and those of his ancestors. English wants people to be inspired to connect with the divine nature
within themselves, their personal mythologies, and be comfortable in the expression of their divinity, their true
selves. The goal of his art is to create an atmosphere for conversation, understanding, and ultimately compassion
for all people. “Darkness within darkness. / The gateway to all understanding.” —Tao Te Ching. Don’t miss!
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibit: Front Display Windows, The
Ward Underground: “Passenger to Paradise,” features
never-before-exhibited new work by central Virginia
artist Mary Montague Sikes. Color and texture
define the work of painter and photographer Sikes.
After growing up in Fredericksburg, she a degree in
psychology at the College of Mary Washington, but
took art classes as electives. She later received an art
teaching license at the College of William and Mary,
where she discovered sculpture and acrylic paints.
Working both in oil and acrylics, she earned an MFA
in painting from Virginia Commonwealth University.
An award-winning artist and author, Sikes has
exhibited nationally and internationally and has taught
students on all levels from kindergarten to college. Her
photographs and articles have been published in many
newspapers and magazines throughout the United
States and the Caribbean. Each year she enjoys taking
workshops with well-known artists. The College of William and Mary Law Library, NationsBank, Crestar Bank,
Philip Morris, Riverside Women’s Health (Williamsburg), Super Clubs (Kingston, Jamaica), National Museum
of Women in the Arts, One Capitol Square (Richmond), and Media General are among public and private
collections that include her work.
Continuing Exhibit: “Abstractions from Nature”:
Carol Meese, who will be exhibiting her nineteen
paintings, large and small, in the Grand Gallery, is no
stranger to Petersburg. Formerly a psychologist in the
Richmond Public Schools, Meese has studied art at
VCU, in Florence, and in several other places around
the world. She has traveled widely, and her work has
been richly influenced by these travels. She has also
exhibited and been collected in many disparate parts
of the world She came to the Petersburg Regional
Art Center when the Shockoe Bottom Art Center
moved there in 2003, and she soon had (with her
son Mark Sprenkle) renovated the Friend House
and had opened Wabi-Sabi and the Friend House
Gallery, which featured her work. But her passionate
turn toward abstraction is likely to be unfamiliar to
Petersburg art lovers. She calls the work she will show
here “Migrations,” as it is inspired by the migrations
of birds on the Outer Banks, where she spends much
of her time today when she is not traveling. There, in
the minimal but elemental landscape of the beach,
invigorated by the collision between realms that is ever evident there, she is freed, she says, to express herself
with paint in a gestural, guttural way. We are all the richer for it. Don’t miss!
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
New Exhibit: “Abstractions from Nature”: Bonnie Koenig, who will also be exhibiting her work in the Grand
Gallery, is a Virginian who is featured artist at the Chasen Gallery in Richmond. Her paintings, she says—especially the work she will exhibit at The Ward—find their inspiration in landscape, water, and the atmosphere,
using color and mark-making to create depth and light, movement, and the feeling of a place. Her work has
been deeply informed by a challenge from a professor at the University of Kansas at Lawrence to begin feeling
her painting, and to experiment. This challenge led her to the ancient medium of encaustic, which permits her
to develop the rich layering she always works toward in her art. But she hasn’t stopped there. Today, she often
makes her marks with unconventional tools, such as string, kitchen spatulas, and cement trowels. And she sometimes goes beyond that, mixing media which resist, even conflict with one another, in order to see what the clash
produces. The work that results from all of this is compelling. Don’t miss!
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Live Music: Cloud 9 Band, featuring Keith Anderson on the sax. Smooth jazz and R&B. 6:00-9:00 pm. Don’t
miss!
Special Event: Seasonal Wines & Beers by The Bucket Trade to accompany the delicious culinary offerings of
Oakley’s Cakes and Catering and Captain Rob’s Pigalicious BBQ.
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibit: The Ward Underground: West
Gallery: Work by Dolly Holmes and Mark Pehanich,
who moved to Petersburg fifteen years ago from
Brooklyn, where they both studied art and exhibited.
They have recently completed new studios nearby on
Sycamore Street. Holmes, who hails from Northern
Virginia, has exhibited in Richmond at the Eric
Schindler Gallery and in Petersburg at The
Walton Gallery, as well as other places. Her brightlycolored abstract compositions are enriched by the
use of encaustics. Pehanich works both in sculpture
and painting, in various media, but recently more in
acrylics on paper on wood, or directly on wood panels,
sometimes carved. His work has been featured at
several area galleries, including The Walton Gallery
in Petersburg, and his sculpture at the Arboretum in
Chesterfield County. Don’t miss!
Continuing Exhibit: The Ward Underground: East Gallery: Works on Paper by Aimee Joyaux, who grew up
in Hawaii, but studied art and skiing in Oregon, where she received her MFA at the University of Oregon. Not
immediately finding a position working in art, she was a ski instructor before moving to Ball State University,
where she taught art. There, she met her husband, Alain Joyaux, who directed the university’s art museum. About
a decade ago, they moved to Petersburg, where they have restored a large former cotton warehouse on Sycamore
Street for their home and her studio. Since her move to this area, she has taught at the Appomattox Regional
Governor’s School and served as the Director of Education at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond. Today she
is Associate Dean for Instructional Resources at Richard Bland College. She has exhibited her photography
and her art widely, including several galleries in Chicago, at the Quirk Gallery in Richmond, and at the Walton
Gallery and the Petersburg Area Art league in Petersburg. Don’t miss!
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibition: The Ward Underground:
Boiler Room Galleries: Delicato: An Installation
by Terry Ammons and Little Monster Studios.
Terry Ammons grew up in Colonial Heights,
studied architecture at Virginia Tech, and has
practiced architecture for many years now in
Petersburg. He has always been particularly
interested in interpretive exhibits, including the
installation of art. He recently worked on the reinstallation of the entire collection at the Chrysler
Museum, and has directed the development of
major interpretive programs, such as the Moton
Museum in Farmville. All along, he has been
producing art, and has had two major exhibits at the
Petersburg Area Art League. At the Ward Center,
he will be exhibiting a remarkable installation of
steel sculpture in the Boiler Room Galleries at the
western end of the Ward Underground. Through
January. This installation has been greeted with great
acclaim by those who have seen it. Don’t miss!
Studio Receptions: The Ward Underground Studios: Rod Givens (#1), who
will be opening an all-new exhibit of his newest work; Waltraut “Trudy”
Dunn (#2); OmniWaters (#5); Elizabeth Longstreet Titmus (# 6); Daniel
Grier (#10); Blake Washington (#11); Brenda Spencer (#19); Kimberly
Schofield (#22); Wayne Swatlowski (#23); Samuel Selasi Agbenyeke (#24);
Jack Hayes (# 25); Sandra Morton (#26); Marcia Sutherland (#28); Clyde
Trent (#29); Lester Wetsch (#30); Joey Northrop (Morena Bohemia) (#31);
Grant Northrop (#32); Jasmine Mills (#33)
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Continuing Exhibit: The Union Alley Galleries: West
Gallery: Work by Risegun Bennett-Olomidun, who
grew up in Ettrick, but studied art at the University of
Cincinnati and Columbia College in Chicago, from
which he holds an MA. He has exhibited his work
in Chicago, in Cincinnati, and in the RichmondPetersburg area, most recently at he Petersburg Area
Art League. He has also managed an art gallery, and,
while in Chicago, was involved with the City’s public
art program. He uses many media, even making his
own African drums, and plays them with several
groups. Don’t miss!
Special Event: Studio 54 Photo Booth Night: Steven Gay, of
Steven.G Photography, will be offering a Photo Booth during Friday
for the Arts! this month. Steve will provide 4”x6” prints, available
immediately, for $3 each, for all comers, individuals or groups. His studio
is set up with backdrops and props, and he suggests wearing funny
costumes, or just coming as you are. 6:00-9:00 pm.
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The Ward Center for Contemporary Art (continued)
Studio Receptions: The Union Alley Studios:
Terry Oakley (#37); Heather Graham (#38); Michele
Kuznick (#39); Art on Wheels (#40); Dulaney Ward
(#41); Felice Washington (#44); Sandi Nardone
(#46); John Rooney, Jr. (#47); Salome Curry-El (#48);
Christopher Alexander (#49); Kathy M. Williams
(#51); Clifton Dickens (#52); Helen Allen-Taylor,
Suzette Flowers, and LaJuana Washington (#53);
Steve Gay (#54); and Kathy M. Williams (#55).
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
110 North Union Street, (804) 733=3415
Live Music: Concerts by Candlelight: Soprano
Margaret Taylor Woods, accompanied by Charles
Lindsey, Jr. , will present a varied program of vocal
music, from sacred to opera to art songs to spiritual
arrangements. Lindsey says of her, “In addition to
having an incredible voice, Margaret is one of the best
musicians with whom I have ever collaborated. She
currently studies with the incomparable Melanie Kohn
Day of Virginia Commonwealth University. You will
not want to miss Margaret’s voice or her artistry. She
received her Bachelor of Science in Music Education
and Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Performance from
Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. She currently
serves as the full-time Director of Music Ministries at
Providence United Methodist Church, where she is the
organist, choral, and handbell director. She is passionate
about music education and performance, and has served
many performing groups in the Richmond area such as
City Singers Youth Choirs, Songbird Studios, Capitol
Opera of Richmond, Central Virginia Masterworks
Chorale, Classical Revolution, and the voice department at Virginia Commonwealth University. While working
at Virginia Commonwealth University, she served as principal stage manager for VCU Opera Scenes for three
full VCU Opera Theater Productions, The Gondoliers, La cambiale di matrimonio, and The Medium. Last
summer she was awarded a performance scholarship for American Singers Opera Project and performed as
Gretel for ASOP’s production of Hansel and Gretel. She teaches private piano and voice lessons in her studio
at Providence UMC and volunteers at AM Davis Elementary teaching preschool music lessons. She is excited
to announce that she has received a scholarship to attend Westminster Choir College for graduate school in the
fall and will be pursuing her MM in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy. Currently, she studies with Melanie Day,
Director of VCU Opera. She recently got married to her longtime love, Eric Woods, and they will be moving to
Princeton, New Jersey, this August along with their Miniature Schnauzer, “MJ.”
Half of the freewill offering for this concert will benefit Downtown Churches United, a humanitarian
outreach source of the greater Petersburg area coordinated by the local faith communities that responds to basic
needs of the less fortunate in the community. The other half of the intake will benefit the Joseph Whittle Music
Fund of St. Paul’s, Bristol Parish, to enable its music ministry in worship and the arts. There will be a reception
following the concert in the Guild Room. Parking is available on the street or in the parking lot behind the
church off North Market Street. 6:30 pm. Don’t miss!
New Exhibit: Guild Room. Paintings by Eugene Vango, the local legendary artist. Mr. Vango is a nationally
acclaimed artist who through the years has exhibited his work at St. Paul’s. An accomplished singer, Mr. Vango
is also a member of the Virginia Benefit Chorale.
Glenna Jean Factory Outlet
224 North Sycamore Street
Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting: Glenna Jean, renowned for baby’s nursery bedding and accessories, has
opened a factory outlet store back where they began, 35 years ago. The new store is beautiful; check it out. 6:009:00 pm.
New Exhibit: Paintings by Mehmet Zahin Altug, of Cool Colors Gallery in Carytown.
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Chesterfield Gallery
244 North Sycamore Street
Continuing Exhibit: Fragments, by Jasmine Mills.
A collection of multi-media works. Using acrylic,
glass, mirror and spray paint, Mills created fifteen
pieces on canvas that inspire viewers to re-examine
art from new angles. “There is a story to be told and a
potential not yet discovered in everything,” says Mills.
“Fragments is inspired by the desire to reinterpret
the common perspective. The manner in which we
perceive something is relative to the angle at which it
is viewed,” explains Mills, who was born in Petersburg.
She works predominantly in the medium of paint but
also film, computer graphics, large installations, and
various multi-media. She is mostly self-taught and
took advantage of the art program at Petersburg High
School. Jasmine was accepted to the Art Institute of
Washington, DC, but elected instead to start her own
business. Since 2006, she has owned and operated
ArtHouse7 Designs (formerly X Customs). She
produces work for clients and sells original pieces
through her studio website, and enjoys showing her
work at local galleries. Mills spends her time creating
her original work, commissions and illustrations at her
home studio and her studio at The Ward Center for
Contemporary Art.
Art Underfoot
On the sidewalks in the 200-block of North Sycamore Street; for information call Kimberly Ann Calos at (804) 5861633, or email her at kimberlyanncalos@aol.com
Public Art: Original works of art created by some of the premier artists in the area—on historic Old Town
sidewalks. More than fifty artists have painted 60-plus concrete “canvasses” with designs ranging from abstract
to realistic, creating a carpet of color that connects Old Town to the newest venues for local art further south on
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Sycamore Street. The artists range in age from infant to 70 and are a kaleidoscope of backgrounds.
Abigails Antiques and Other Diversions
246 North Sycamore Street, (804) 722-0905, FB: Abigails Antiques and Other Diversions
Continuing Exhibit: Celebration and Exhibit of the Work of Ken Graves, the much-loved teacher who taught
art at Petersburg High School for years.
Live Music: Bobby Horne and Charles “C.W.” Barr, n the acoustic guitar. 6:00-9:00 pm.
Sweet Dixie
Charles Leonard Building
20 W. Bank Street
Storefront Windows: Continuing Exhibit: Pamplin Park exhibits.
Tantrum Tattoos
235A Bartow Alley, behind 116 West Bank Street, FB: Tantrum Tattoos LLC, Tues.-Fri. 1:00-8:00 pm; Sat. 11:00
am-8:00 pm; Sun. 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Special Event: Henna Tattoos.
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Old Towne Studio 7: A Creative Place
116 West Bank Street, (804)479-3085
Soft Opening: Studio 7 will host paint parties; is looking for class instructors; will sell on commission arts
and crafts; will host monthly art shows and contests.
(looking for featured artists). 6:30-9:00 pm.
Live Music: Campbell’s Bridge, featuring the acoustic
sounds of Nathan Via, Todd Tipton, Jared Thacker, J.
Brooks Johnson. 7:00-9:00 pm.
Therapeutic Massage Center & Boutique
257 East Bank Street, Suite B, (804)722-1720, open
Monday-Friday 10-6, Saturday 10-5
Open for Friday for the Arts! at the New Location.
New Exhibit: Allegorey Jewelry. Original Designs by
artist Nancy Hendry. Earrings and Necklaces ( Jasper,
Agate, Turquoise, and more).
New: Santa Rosa Plantation Wildflower Honey. Local and Organic.
Continuing Exhibit: Original, one of a kind, boldly designed jewelry containing semi-precious stones & fresh
water pearls by Dr. Cynthia Richardson of Cyn’s Rich
Designs. Summer scarves, decorative flip flops, turquoise necklaces, earrings, and woven beaded bracelets.
Continuing Exhibit: Jerry Harvey: Master Work in
Wood. Carved wooden bowls and vessels.
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Old Towne’s Alibi
305 North Sycamore Street, (804) 479-3566, FB: Old
Towne’s Alibi, Wednesday-Thursday, 11:00 am-12:00
midnight; Friday-Saturday, 11:00 am-2:00 am; Sunday,
11:00 am-4:00 pm
Live Music: Shaun Peace Band. This national touring
act is off to Atlanta, Austin, and the West Coast after
rocking the Alibi. 8:00 pm-midnight. Don’t miss!
The Bucket Trade Beer & Wine
306 North Sycamore Street, (804) 621-2337, www.thebuckettrade.com
First Full Opening for Friday for the Arts! In its new
location, The Bucket Trade offers pour-your-own beer
and wine, numerous varieties of craft beers, and food.
Check it out.
DJ’s Rajun Cajun
309 North Sycamore Street
Soft Opening: DJ’s long-awaited new restaurant serving New Orleans-style cuisine and steaks.
Grand Opening: Sunday, July 10, noon to four, complete with a New-Orleans-style parade, Yo Mama’s Brass
Band, and DJ Jammin’ Jimmy from two to four.
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Mitchell Store & Dwelling
316 North Sycamore Street
Interactive Public Art Exhibit: Old Town Petersburg “I Want This To Be” Wall. Public Art Petersburg’s new
interactive chalkboard asks visitors to respond to a pair of prompts: “I want this city to be” [fill in the black
with the provided chalk], and “I will help by” [fill in the blank]. The “Before I Die” Wall, previously in this location, has migrated south to 16 North Sycamore Street.
Tramonto Ristorante
322 North Sycamore STreet
Live Music: The Cletic group Clan Haggis will be singing from seven until nine.
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Andrade’s International Restaurant
7 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 722-0344, www.andradesinternational. com, Sun.-Mon. & Wed.-Thurs., 11:00 am -9:00 pm, Fri.Sat, 11:00 am-10:30 pm
New Exhibit: Paintings by Joey Northrop.
Continuing Exhibit: Work by Petersburg artist Paul Penrod.
Continuing Exhibit: Work by Hopewell artist Jeannie Cameron.
Live Music: On the Patio: Spoonful Blues Band. Featuring
Zack Artis on lead guitar, with Sir Charles Hodge on mouth
harp & vocals, Kevin Finkley on bass, and Rosa Billings on
drums. 8:00-11:00 pm.
Wabi-Sabi
29 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 862-1365, www.eatwabisabi.com, Mon.-Thurs., 11:00 am to 9:00 pm; Fri-Sat.,
11:00 am to 12:30 am, or until . . . .
Continuing Exhibit: Music Room: More Musical
Photography by Petersburg’s Jez Beasley. Don’t miss!
Continuing Exhibit: Tavern: New Work by Sally Valentine. Her new work is really great! Don’t miss!
Live Music: DJ’s Martini Lounge: Rick Elliott. (sax)
7:00-9:00 pm. Don’t miss!
Live Music: Music Room: Sayer McShane, a Research-Triangle-based band. Featuring Kristin Sayer on
lead guitar and Carolyn McShane on drums. A danceable, rockin’, funky, Motown feel, richly steeped in the
blues. 9:00 pm to 12 midnight. Don’t miss!
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Union Station
113 River Street
Opening Reception: New Exhibit: Tucker Family Exhibit: New Work by Laura J. Blackwell, Samuel E.
Blackwell, Jennifer West, Anwar Blackwell Houzell, and Khadijra Rogers. The Tucker family is a family with
many artists. They are all from Petersburg and surrounding areas. Several of them have relocated to other states;
but home is always home. Every other year the family showcases its talents and skills to the family and the public. This is a positive and uplifting experience for member of the family because it inspires the next generation
and those who are sitting on the fence with talents and are afraid to act on them.
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Croaker’s Spot
39 River Street, (804) 957-5635, Mon.-Wed., 11:00 am9:00 pm; Thurs., 11:00 am-10:00 pm; Fri., 11:00-11:00
pm; Sat., 12 noon-11:00 pm; Sun., 12 noon-9:00 pm.
Continuing Exhibit: Large recent painting of Nina
Simone, with a jazz & blues theme, by S. Ross
Browne, who was born in New York, raised in Richmond & Charlottesville, and studied Communications
Art & Design at VCU & Photography at the Corcoran School of the Arts. Other work by Browne is also
exhibited.
Live Music: Rudy Faulkner & Friends, the Richmond
jazz band. Faulkner, one of the Richmond area’s favorite
vocalists, performs with a changing cast of musicians,
recently including Carl “Chico” Lester-El on bass,
Charlie Kilpatrick on keys, and Devon Harris on
drums. Latin-inflected jazz. 7:00-10:00 pm. Don’t miss!
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Petersburg Area Art League
7 E. Old St., (804) 861-4611, www.paalart.com, open
Wednesday-Friday, 11 am to 5 pm, Saturday 10 am until
4 pm.
Opening Reception: New Exhibit: Main Gallery:
Popotillo Art: Inner Peace & Passion (Paz Espirituel
y Pasion), created by Martin Gonzales, who will be
displaying twelve popotillo works. Popotillo is a beautiful, ancient technique of straw painting. Popotillo is
a type of straw that is washed, dried in the sun, and
then hand-dyed. The results are a vast array of colorful
straw. The artist then draws a design on a special paper
that is covered by a fine layer of special beeswax called
Campeche. The straw is cut down, shaped and pressed
into the beeswax. This technique has been passed on
from generation to generation, but the declining sales
of this art led to diminishing production and its impending extinction. Richmond artist Gonzalez is an
acclaimed artist in popotillo and is intent on rescuing
and perpetuating this ancestral art. “It is important
to support and encourage ancient artistic traditions
and cultures—not only from Mexico, but also those of
other nations – before time and distance lets us forget
them,” explains Gonzalez. Gonzalez was born outside
of Mexico City, and now makes his home in Chesterfield. He participates in many festivals and events, and
instructs popotillo art by invitation at museums and
community centers. Gonzalez says, “I find inspiration in
a quiet, serene place at the end of the day. Meditation
on feelings, dreams, and visions yield artistic expressions
that are captured in the work.” He goes on to explain
that popotillo art can be a therapeutic source of inner
peace, as it requires such focus on the object. Through
August 7.
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Petersburg Area Art League (continued)
Opening Reception: Members’ Gallery: Landscapes
by local artist Amy Barr. Barr is a plein air painter,
mother and the owner of Art Adventures and Featherlight Studios. “It is my dream to build a cultural
center where families can come to experience all of
the arts. Art Adventures is the first step towards that
dream.” After almost a decade of teaching Art in
Chesterfield County, Amy opened Art Adventures,
an art school for preschool to adult students. FeatherLight Studios is a business devoted to helping dynamic, spiritually-minded women “get creative” and follow
their dreams. To combine her love of travel, art, and
teaching, Barr also leads onsite art trips to destinations
including New York, Lake Gaston, Utah, Colorado,
and Hawaii. Barr enjoys pushing the envelope and
bringing out the creative side in others. “I believe that students should be able to create anything they want. I try
to facilitate each students’ inspirations and show them new ways to create artwork,” explains Barr. Her exhibit
includes about twenty-five oil pastels, oils, and watercolors. Through August 7.
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Sixteen West
16 West Old Street, (804) 733-9378, Facebook: Sixteen West, Tuesday-Saturday, Noon-10:00 pm, every other Monday
is Blues Monday, 6:0-9:00 pm
Special Event: arthaus. An evening of Afro/soul/jazzy sounds and lounge beats. Beats and blends by Omar
Faison. 6:00-9:00 pm.
Continuing Exhibit: Paintings by Gus Dickens and Sistah Beanz.
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Maria’s at Old Town 21 Ristorante Italiano
21 West Old Street, (804) 862-3100, (804) 862-3114,
www.mariasoldtown21.com, Facebook: Maria’s at Old
Town 21 Ristorante Italiano, Mon.-Thurs. & Sat., 11:00
am-10:00 pm; Fri. 11:00 am-10:30 pm.
Live Music: Joe LaLuna, who sings Sinatra-style vocals. LaLuna grew up in New York City and on Long
Island, where, as young adult, he had a thirteen-year
career as a wedding and event singer, performing at
more than 3,000 weddings and dinner-dances. Today,
living in the Richmond area, he has taken up singing
again, performing the music he loves. 6:30-8:30 pm.
Don’t miss!
The Bistro at Market & Grove
434 N. Market St., (804) 732-4480, Tues.-Thurs., 11:am-9:00 pm; Fri.-Sun., 11:00 am-10:pm; Sun., 11:00 am3:00 pm for brunch.
New Exhibit: New Work by Trudi Dunn, who also has work on display at The Ward Centr for Contemporary
Art. Don’t miss!
A Timeline for the Evening:
5:00-10:00 pm
Trudi Dunn (exhibit) at the Bistro
6:00 pm
Kid’s Fest at the Petersburg Music Festival
5:00 pm-2:00 am
6:00-8:00 pm
6:00-8:00 pm
6:00-10:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
Old Town Petersburg “I Want This City To Be” Wall and “Before I Die” Uptown Wall
(interactive public art) at 316 and 16 North Sycamore
Brenda Spencer & Mildred Sexton (exhibit) at The Library
Cora Harvey Armstrong (traditional patriotic music & gospel) at the Library
Art Trolley making its rounds
Bobby Horne and CW Barr on acoustic guitar at Abigails
Retrospective exhibit of the work of Ken Graves at Abigails
Henna Tattoos at Tantrum Tattoos
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A Timeline for the Evening (continued):
6:00-9:00 pm
Grand Opening of Glenna Jean Factory Outlet
6:00-9:00 pm
Tucker Family Exhibit at Union Station
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
6:00-9:00 pm
Cloud 9 Band (smooth jazz & R&B) at The Ward Center for Contemporary Art
Studio 54 Photo Booth Night at The Ward
Studio Open Houses at The Ward
Bobby English, Jr. (exhibit of steel sculpture) at The Ward
Men in Suits: A Day on the Hill (new installation by Rosamond Casey) at The Ward
Continuing exhibit featuring Carol Meese and Bonnie Koenig) at The Ward
Continuing exhibits (Aimee Joyaux, Dolly Holmes, Mark Pehanich, Terry Ammons,
Risegun Olomidun, Mary Montague Sikes, James Timberlake) at The Ward
Beverages offered by The Bucket Trade at The Ward
6:00-9:00 pm arthaus (lounge sounds) at Sixteen West
6:00-9:00 pm
Popotillo Art: Inner Peace & Passion (Paz Espirituel y Pasion) (exhibit by
Martin Gonzalez) and landscapes by Amy Barr (exhibit) at PAAL
6:30 pm
Soprano Margaret Taylor Woods at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
7:00-9:00 pm
Campbell’s Bridge (acoustic) at Old Towne Studio 7
6:30-9:00 pm
7:00-9:00 pm
7:00-10:00 pm
7:30 pm
8:00 pm
8:00-11:00 pm
8:00 pm-midnight
8:30 pm
9:00 pm
Joe LaLuna (Sinatra-style vocals) at Maria’s
Steve Brooks (keys, vocals) performing in the Martini Lounge at Wabi-Sabi
Rudy Faulkner & Friends at Croaker’s Spot
Sharron at the Petersburg Music Festival
G-Factor at the Petersburg Music Festival
Spoonful (blues) on the Patio at Andrade’s
Shaun Peace Bsnd at Old Towne’s Alibi
Bertine Hardy at the Petersburg Music Festival
Yasminah Lhetreal at the Petersburg Music Festival
9:00 pm to midnight Sayer McShane (blues-inflected rock) in the Music Room at Wabi-Sabi
9:30 pm
Potluck Band at Petersburg Music Festival
10:30 pm
Sud’n Change Band & Show at the Petersburg Music Festival
10:00 pm
FAV Band & Show at the Petersburg Music Festival
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