Artistic Encounters -Meet the Artist essentially takes the artist from behind the camera and welcomes them into the Blue Ridge PBS studio. This provides our arts loving audience the opportunity to meet the featured artist while they introduce their works one on one. Specially curated pieces from their collection will be on display during the reception and for several weeks afterwards with many available to take home by making a donation to Blue Ridge PBS. Additionally, each artist will donate one piece to Blue Ridge PBS which will then be auctioned the night of the artist’s reception. Proceeds benefit the artist and Blue Ridge PBS so it may continue its mission of enriching people’s lives by providing educational, informational, and cultural programming that fills a unique role as a positive and lifelong resource for the communities we serve.
Our Featured Artist: Bob Crawford
In my artworks, my formal concerns are with dynamic interplay of forms. In the medium of painting, the forms are abstracted and I attempt through color and gesture to convey the energetic interchange of natural forces and processes. In the avian images, the combination of intricate close-up detail with the viewer’s apparent eye contact (as borrowed from human portraiture) with the individual subject imparts a quality of privileged intimacy which enhances and energizes both form and detail.
My work has been exhibited regionally and in the Norfolk area. I taught at Hollins (then College) as an adjunct art faculty member.
Reception:
Thursday, February 27 from 4 – 7 pm
Exhibit & Sale:
Weekdays, March 3 – 14 from 1 – 4 pm
And by appointment.
Admission is free.
Blue Ridge PBS: 1215 McNeil Drive, Roanoke, VA 24015
In order for the series to continue we need funding and artists! Please reach out to ArtisticEncounters@BlueRidgePBS.org
Artistic Encounters - Visionaries
Recognizing and supporting Blue Ridge PBS’ artist series, Meet the Artist
- Brenda Barksdale
- Anne and Curt Steele
- Ann Martyn
- Mary Page Gwaltney
- David-Charles Campbell