“Scaffolding” an exhibition by Southwest Virginia art faculty to open at the Charles Harris Library Gallery in Wise, Virginia.

This exhibition highlights the work of several Southwest Virginia artists – painters, photographers, sculptors, printmakers, ceramicists, muralists – who teach at area colleges. The ‘scaffolding’ of the title refers to the supportive role these artists play for students in the area; a sort of temporary infrastructure built around young artists as they develop their work and ideas. These artists, remembering their own formative experiences, are aware of the powerful potential they have to advance student’s artistic growth. They become the means through which art ideas get transmitted from the past to the present, and forward into the future. Through traditional classroom settings and particularly their own artistic practice (the results of which are on view in this exhibition) these artists offer divergent examples to the next generation of what an artist’s life might look like.

The Charles Harris Library Art Gallery is proud to exhibit the work of these artists and welcomes the local and regional communities to visit. The exhibition will open at on Sunday, March 8^th, 2009 and will remain open until Friday, March 27^th, 2009.

A closing reception is planned, although the exact date and time is still to be determine. Check out the gallery website in coming days for updates.

Artists in the exhibition include: Suzanne Adams-Ramsey, Chuck Clisso, David Constable, Alice Harrington, Bill Harris, Heather Harvey, Misty Stratton, Ray Stratton, and James Veenstra.

Additional information is available at http://www.charlesharrisgallery.org.

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