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Group 6: Ways of Seeing

Lindsay Freedman

Janly Jaggard

June Jordan

Joan Ranzini

Krista Townsend

Christine Watts

This exhibit presents recent work by Group 6. Its six members are established artists who live and work in Virginia, women who meet regularly to show, discuss and critique their work. Primarily known as painters, some in the group also create in collage, vitreous enamel, clay, photography and printmaking. Their work is shaped by an interest in abstraction and a commitment to process and creative inquiry.

By choice or necessity, Group 6 artists spend most of their working time alone in the studio, so it’s particularly valuable to gather as a group to exchange ideas and information, provide analysis, offer challenges and encouragement, and build friendships. All group members have studied and/or taught at Beverley Street Studio School in Staunton, and for the past several years the group has met with guest advisors Ron Boehmer and Nan Covert. Members participate in solo and group exhibits nationally and regionally, and their work can be found in public, corporate, and private collections in the United States and abroad.

Opening Reception: July 12 5:00-7:00

Art Talk with Group 6: August 13, 2:00pm

UPCOMING EXHIBITS:

Sculptor/Painter: Michael Hough and Dietrich Maune

Michael Hough is a clay and metal sculptor, curator, Professor of Art at Bridgewater College, and gallery director of the Beverly Perdue Art Gallery.  At Bridgewater College he teaches, Design, Drawing, all levels of ceramics and sculpture, as well as a course called Professional Practices (subtitled “everything I wish I had learned about the business of art while I was in school”).  He has been an artist, creating ceramic sculpture, pottery, and steel sculpture, for the past forty years.  “My love of all things clay and metal began during my second year as an art student at California State University, Sacramento where I eventually earned a BA and MA in Ceramics”.  After five years teaching High School art, Michael returned for his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (1993). 

Dietrich Maune’s creative work focuses on our relationships with each other and the world as seen through the relationships of animals and their place in our environment. It often looks at how difference can exist together and how the needs of different species and their desire for each other are mutually beneficial and often supportive.
His work has been exhibited in numerous solo, group, and juried exhibitions and resides in the corporate collections of the Greenville Museum of Art, NC; DSM Pharmaceuticals, NC; Green Tree Financial, SD; Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland; Rockingham Memorial Hospital, VA and Augusta Medical Center, VA among others; and in many private collections. Dietrich Maune received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts from East Carolina University in Painting and Drawing.

OPENING RECEPTION 5:00-7:00