Category Archives: Events

Exhibitions, workshops, gallery talks, etc.

Student Juried Show 2011

Jerry Allen - Thats How It All Played Out - spray paint, marker, and oil - FIRST PLACE

The Juried Show had nearly fifty entries this year! Juror, Val Lyle, selected 24 pieces to be exhibited.

  • 1st – Jerry Allen
  • 2nd – Cat Dye
  • 3rd – Candace Butler
  • Hon. Mention – Joey Blevins
  • Hon. Mention – Jenny Snead
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Dr. Tadlock featured in National Exhibit

Tadlock's Trinity

Dr. Marvin Tadlock, professor of art at Virginia Intermont College, has sculpture selected for a national exhibit. His moving kinetic sculpture “Trinity” is installed  at the University Mall in Chapel Hill, N.C., as part of the Sculpture Visions Outdoor Exhibit, an annual national competition. The exhibit runs through October 2011. “One of the fascinations in [...]

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Sketches in Steel

Lest We Forget (detail)

Dr. Tadlock currently has an exhibition at Bridgewater College. He writes the following: The work selected for this exhibition was completed over the last seven years, and varies in size from one to seven feet in height. While two of the larger pieces, “A Bomb Sculptor” and “Lest We Forget -a tableaux in straight lines” [...]

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Inhibition Lost – Kyle Buckland

Evening Glow

Inhibition Lost by Appalachian landscape painter Kyle Buckland opened Thursday, Sept. 2nd at the Virginia Intermont College gallery in the Anne R. Worrell Fine Arts Center. The show runs through October 14th and features a series of Buckland’s impressionistic landscapes of the region’s mountains and valleys, as well as more uninhibited works that deal with [...]

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Convocation Series – Elyse Gerstenecker

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Elyse Gerstenecker explores the role art had in the history of women’s colleges in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. The Curator of Decorative and Folk Art at the William King Museum in Abingdon, Va., she has a master’s in the History of Decorative Arts and Design and a bachelor’s in Historic Preservation and Art History.

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Gallery Talk – Val Lyle

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Friday February 5 at 5:30 in the Fine Arts Building Gallery Talk with artist Val Lyle.

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Guitars of Intermont

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Several of VI’s own took the stage for our Convocation Series. Performers included Professor Sam Morrow, art students Shane Mullins and Jon Bailey, Dane Kinser, Johnny Barker and our Provost Mark Roberts.

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D.C. Workshop

Capitol Building at Night

The Art department regularly travels to Washington D.C. to view art. The nation’s capitol has an abundance of galleries and museums – so many that it’s impossible to view them all in one weekend. Once the galleries close, we catch our breath and hit the streets again!

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From These Hills 2009

From These Hills 2009

Dr. Marvin Tadlock and Mr. Perry Johnson each have work in From These Hills – Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands. This exhibition, opening Oct. 23, is guest-curated by Ray Kass, a painter and writer who lives in New York City and Blacksburg, Virginia, where he is Professor Emeritus of Art at Virginia Tech.

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Tedd Head

Installed

Tedd Blevins remains a colorful character on campus. Art students created a 7 foot portrait composed of over 1700 two inch pieces.

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