MONDAY PAINTING GROUP!

Want to paint with other RAG members?

Call Wistie Jobe at 348-5880 for details.

Visitor Center to Feature Local Art Galleries

2012

January/FebruaryLexington Artists Co-op

March/April         Artists in Cahoots

May/JuneNelson Fine Arts

July/AugustLexington Artists Co-op

September/OctoberArtists in Cahoots

November/DecemberNelson Fine Arts

Richmond Trip Replaces Washington Museum Tour

A May trip to the Virginia Museum of FIne Arts and the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens has replaced the annual November Washington museum tour.

The day long road trip will include a morning visit to one site, lunch, and an afternoon visit to the other site. Date and more details to follow.

The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, 30 acre, is a botanical garden located at 1800 Lakeside Avenue, on the North Side of Richmond, Virginia. The property was once owned by Patrick Henry

Remember to Pay 2012 Dues by January

Membership Dues

Student $10

Individual $20

Family $25

Make check payable to Rockbridge Arts Guild and mail to: 

Rockbridge Arts Guild

PO Box 747

Lexington, VA 24450                                                                      

2012 RAG BANK OF BOTETOURT EXHIBIT DISPLAY

JAN/FEB -

MARCH/ APRIL - KATHRYN MARCH

MAY/JUNE - DEE TODD

JULY/AUG - JULIE HOLLINGSWORTH 

SEPT/OCT - THURMAN WHITESIDE

NOV/DEC

Coker & Anfin Have Waynesboro Show

Dorothy Coker stands in front of several of the thirty pieces of her art now on display at Waynesboro’s Summit Square Retirement Community Gallery.

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RAG NOVEMBER 14TH MEETING MINUTES

RAG ANNUAL HOLIDAY PARTY

Table is stocked with favorite hors d'oeuvres. or dessert at RAG’s Annual Holiday fete at Sunnyside House at Kendal.

RAG President Shirley Claiborn welcomes everyone.

Dick Minnix Fires Cannon at RAG Meeting

Dick Minnix, retired VMU Professor of Physics, put on an exciting show of physics concepts made understandable at the January  9th RAG meeting. The program included using found objects to demonstrate basic physic principles. To get those ideas across he fired a smoke cannon, created pipe organ sounds with fire, and sat on a bed of nails. The audience reacted with laughter and amazement.

Art Book Club Returns with Best Seller Choice

The RAG Art Book Club returns March 20th with David McCullough’s best seller “The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris.” This book has been recommended two club members and has outstanding reviews. The book focuses on ambitious American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and architects who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900. McCullough says that what they achieved profoundly altered American history.

The book can be ordered at Books & Co with a RAG discount. Orders can be filled in a matter of days. Copies can also be obtained new or used from Amazon,com, Albris.com. or Booksamillion.com.

The meeting will take place at 6:30 at Kathy Kvach’s home and will follow the usual format of discussing the book along with a PowerPoint expansion on issues brought out in the book followed by refreshments and a critique of a painting members bring to the meeting.

The RAG Art Book Club is one of the benefits of RAG membership, so if you would like to invite a potential members to read and discuss the book with us, please do so.

If you have questions, contact John Anfin at anfinj@me.com.

Lexington Visitor Center Features RAG Members During January/February

RAG members Dorothy Coker, Darin Docekal, Anna Bangley, and Dee Todd have paintings in the Lexington Visitor Center.

In addition, RAG members Martha Devening and John Anfin have work featured for the first two months of 2012

ART CHALLENGE #8

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George Bent Exams

da Vinci’s Last Supper

Art historian Dr. George Bent, W&L’s Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program Head will  exam Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in his talk entitled "Leonardo's Last Supper: Failure and Success"

at the Guild’s February 13th meeting.

The mural painting created by Leonardo da Vinci between 1495 and 1499 for the Milanese monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie.  Professor Bent will review the historical context of the commission, the designs Leonardo toyed with, his experimental approach to the project, and the narrative intricacies of the picture that transcend typical representations of the Last Supper in Renaissance art.  In the process, the troubling history of the picture's condition will reveal both the failures of the project and the successes the artist enjoyed because of its qualities.

Professor Bent received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Art History from Stanford University in 1993. He came to Washington and Lee University in that year and has been a member of the faculty ever since. Bent teaches courses in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art history, and specializes in Italian art and culture from 1250 to 1450. He has written about artistic production, the function of liturgical images, and institutional patronage in early Renaissance Florence, and in 2006 published Monastic Art in Lorenzo Monaco’s Florence, a book that focuses on these subjects,

Meeting starts at 6:30 with Bent’s presentation at 7:00 on W&L campus in Wilson Hall, Room 2017.

John Anfin sits in front some of the nine paintings he has on display.

On Wednesday February 8th the Summit Square Gallery will have a reception for the artists from 2-3:30. It is open to he public.

The Gallery  is open to the public from 8am to 8pm Monday through Sunday. It is located on the second floor adjacent to the Gallery Dining Room in Summit Square 501 Oak Ave (off 13th Street) in Waynesboro. The show runs through March 3oth.