Monthly Luncheon and Speakers
BRAA luncheons and Art Spots are always on the second Friday of each month at Bull and Bones Brewhouse and Grill at First and Main in Blacksburg, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Art Spot speakers:
Nov - Jesse Burgardt, Nolley Art House
Dec - Show and Tell
Jan - Rafael Bedia, workshop report
See photo review of reception - New River Art Juried Biennial: Check out this Spark Page contributed by Gerri Young.
If you are not receiving BRAA emails, please know that we have stopped using the 2018 email group and are only using the 2019 email group. You are only in the current group if you have paid your dues for 2019. "Club 80" members (over age 80) have been included in the 2019 group. Email braaarts@gmail.com if you think you are erroneously excluded from the 2019 group.
BRAA is now at home in its new location!
The Artful Lawyer,
318 N Main St, Blacksburg.
Come on in to check it out.
Also at this location our friends:
Downtown Blacksburg, Inc.
Blacksburg Tourism
Diana and James the wonderful owner/managers of the Artful Lawyer.
Visit the space during regular business hours to see work by a variety of BRAA artists. Be sure to wander through the whole Artful Lawyer Gallery space to see the rotating art from artists throughout the New River Valley. James, Diana and the crew love visitors!
2019 ANNUAL MEETING SET FOR NOV. 3
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
BRAA'S annual meeting is set for Sunday, Nov. 3 from 2-4 p.m. in the Hahn Horticulture Garden Pavilion. The featured speaker will be Margaret Hancock, art and design educator for the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in Richmond. She will present "Face Value: Portraiture in American Art." This subject ranges from folk to classical and from realism to impressionism. Hancock will delve into these stylistic variances with a visual exploration of painted portraits of Americans by Americans. Works in significant portrait collections across America will be explored, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
The speaker will be followed by refreshments and a business meeting.
Is it a bird? A plane?...No...just a luncheon presentation by Gerri in the back of the room. Everyone watching the big screen for a photo presentation of her trip to Cuba.
Photo by Teri Hoover
Membership fees are due each year on Dec. 31 for the following year. See join/forms tab to get form...if you newly join BRAA after Oct 1, you do not have to pay another fee for the following year. If you are over the age of 80, you do not have to pay fee, but should send in form to indicate your desire to stay involved and receive communications from us. Need help, contact Rafael Bedia at bediari1@cox.net.
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