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25 Oct

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Timothy Duffy has been photographing musicians in the South for 35 years and is the founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Hillsborough, North Carolina, that helps elderly musicians meet their basic needs so that they can share their music with the world. The exhibit features portraits of these musicians and still lifes of Southern scenes in the form of 25 palladium prints created from Duffy’s wet-plate photographs. The portraits...

25 Oct

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The Arts Depot presents Native Treasures: Art and Biodiversity Meet in a Global Hotspot. A juried fine arts exhibit depicting species and landscapes native to far Southwest Virginia. This exhibition features sculpture, clay, oil, felting, fabric, photography, and more. The Round-Leaf Birch Award (1st place) was awarded to Kyle Buckland for his "Snow Flurries at Little Mocassin Gap". A portion of the sale proceeds will benefit The Nature Conservancy's Clinch Valley Chapter. Also featured in our...

25 Oct

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This traveling exhibition from the Library of Virginia addresses the effects of prohibition on Virginia and America. It examines the prohibition movement as part of a social reform movement and outlines the economic and social costs of prohibition as well as an array of other topics, including prohibition’s legacy from NASCAR to the creation of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to the rise of the modern brewing and distilling industry. On display at the...