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» Play BINGO!
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Celebrate our arts and cultural scene by getting out to performances, museums, lectures, and creating something new. They are all fun activities that make life richer all around. Plus you can win prizes. You can still register your cards. There will be one more drawing on November 16. Congratulations to…
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» Artists at work on designs for the GRANDIN ART WALK
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OVERVIEW The Roanoke Co+op, the Roanoke Arts Commission, and the Grandin Village Business Association are seeking exhibition-ready installation pieces and will unveil the Grandin Village Art Walk in the spring/summer of 2022. The project will be a multi-mural installation comprised of nine (9) separate murals to be installed on the…
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» Home sought for Eaton’s “Chairway to Heaven”
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Chairway to Heaven is a site-specific installation at Metropolitan Community Church of the Blue Ridge, in Roanoke, Va. It was originally made for the Laybrinth Exhibition as part of the 2011 Marginal Arts Festival, but was retained by the church as a permanent installation. The church will no longer be have access to the…
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» WELCOME TO ROANOKE Exhibit
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What does it mean to be compassionate and welcoming in a diverse community? We asked Roanoke area artists to share work that reflects on that question. The wide-ranging responses came from professional artists with long-established careers and from emerging voices just setting out. Not surprisingly, the answers involved their own processes—for an…
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» ART CALL: WELCOME TO ROANOKE Exhibition
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Share your images of Roanoke as a compassionate, diverse, and welcoming community. Submissions due at midnight on Tuesday, August 31. The Roanoke Arts Commission seeks exhibition-ready art for a ten-month exhibit in the City of Roanoke Municipal Building. The exhibition, Welcome to Roanoke: Images of a Compassionate, Diverse, and Welcoming…
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» Artists Say EVERY CORNER IS A CROSSWALK!
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Have you seen the new signal box wraps? As part of the City’s Pedestrian Safety Campaign, five artists were selected in 2020 to have their designs share the message that EVERY CORNER IS A CROSSWALK. If the street is 35 MPH or under, it is your responsibility as a driver…
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» NO NEED TO SPEED Signal Box Art Call
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The City of Roanoke is accepting submissions for the Color Your Corner Contest. Five selected artists will have their artwork installed on a signal cabinet in Roanoke for the community to see! This art contest is part of the 2021 Roanoke Pedestrian Safety Campaign, which is led by the City…
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» ART CALL! Window Mural to Celebrate Small Businesses
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Our partners at the Roanoke Regional Small Business Development Center (RRSBDC) are seeking an artist(s) to create site-specific original artwork for National Small Business Week. The RRSBDC is located in the business district of Downtown Roanoke, physical address: 210 South Jefferson Street, Roanoke, VA. This opportunity is open to established…
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» Congratulations to our 2021-22 Grantees
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We’re pleased to announce that the Roanoke City Council supported a consistent level of funding for arts and cultural programming at $336,500. The Agency Funding Advisory Committee (AFAC) worked hard this spring reviewing applications for the coming year. They looked at past performance and the work of our partners. They…
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» Behind the scenes with Fashionista Roanoke’s Garland Gravely
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“It’s important as a community that we know how to come together and work together,” says Garland Gravely, a founder of Fashionista Roanoke. The Roanoke native says it’s all about multiculturalism as the organization develops creative collaborations to benefit nonprofit partners. Established in 2008, Fashionista Roanoke produces fashion shows for…