Culture Connection
Culture Connection takes a light survey of the upcoming arts and cultural events going on in the region to spotlight for our listeners. The feature shares event details that have been chosen and read for our listeners by Hanna Lynch, in loving memory of WNRN’s Culture Monkey, Beryl Solla.
If you would like to submit an arts event that is coming up in the next month, email culture@wnrn.org!
Beryl Solla was Chairperson of the art department and gallery curator at PVCC. She taught there for ten years and previously taught at JMU and Barry University, in Miami. She received her MFA from the University of Miami and has made various large-scale public tile projects for the past twenty-five years. Beryl was an active member in various organizations including Piedmont Council for the Arts’ Cultural Planning Committee.
Culture Connection News & Updates
Culture Connection: May 16th – May 22nd
At Art Works in Richmond, the natural and interpretive series “Outside Your Door” by Mike Bily will be showing through May 21st.
In Charlottesville, Second Street Gallery is showing the work of hard-line abstract painter Christina Flowers titled “Community Lost and Found”.
Located on the campus of Washington & Lee in Lexington, the Staniar Gallery highlights Kathleen Olson’s “Retrospective” until May 26th. As a retired professor of art at Washington & Lee, Kathleen has curated an immersive experience for her students, traveling with them to Italy during spring semesters for creative inspiration and art and culture appreciation.
Culture Connection Call For Submissions
Culture Connection is a service of Hear Together on WNRN, and we are always looking for submissions! If you have an interesting arts event coming up in the next month or so that you’d like us to feature, email culture@wnrn.org.