Fredtalk: Garden Day/Art Show April 22

Welcome to

The Spring
Fine Art
Exhibition
April 22, 2008
10-5 p.m.
Sponsored by
The Studio of Bowling Green Inc

In cooperation with the
Town Council of Bowling Green
Caroline County Board of Supervisors
Caroline Chamber of Commerce

Town Hall, 117 Butler Street
Bowling Green
Virginia

Our Judge
Johnny Johnson

“My art is a response to many different life
experiences, I am sensitive to the human
condition which compels me to express
through painting a particular opinion. I want
the viewer to relate to it in his/her own way.
Other times the creative process is as important
as the work itself.”

Renowned artist Johnny P. Johnson was born
in Henderson, North Carolina and has a BS
Degree in Fine Arts Education from Virginia
State University and a MFA from Howard
University. He began teaching art in the
Fredericksburg area in 1959 and taught in
the Fredericksburg City Public schools for over
30 years. He was also an adjunct professor at
both Germanna Community College and the
University of Mary Washington. He has
conducted workshops all over the United States.
His exhibitions include showings in the
Fredericksburg Center For the Creative Arts,
Howard University, Washington, D.C.,Twentieth
Century Gallery, Williamsburg, African
American Gallery, Columbia, Maryland,
Mt. Sterling Gallery, Kentucky One Man Exhibit, Frejus,
France, French Rivera. Johnny holds
numerous awards for watercolors and mixed
media and holds the Governor’s Lifetime
Achievement Award in Art in the Fredericksburg
area and the James Farmer Memorial Award for Art.

Sidney E. King

In his book, Tribute to An Artist, the
Jamestown Paintings of Sidney E. King,
James Crutchfield writes “He (King) was
a master with oils, acrylics and watercolors
and a precision pen and ink artist. ”Never was
King’s genius more apparent than this past year
for Jamestown’s 400th Anniversary where his
paintings originally unveiled to the national public
fifty years before in 1957, were again the center of
attention. Visitors from allover the world viewed the
Jamestown, Sidney King collection now in the Colonial
National Historic Park, Williamsburg and the APVA.

In an article for the Central Rappahannock
Regional Library, Barbara Crookshanks says,
“King was spectacular as muralist. He did the
largest mural ever to be painted in the United States,
400 ft long by 75 feet wide. Entitled “Creation,
it covers the dome of the Visitors center in Salt
Lake City Utah.

Sidney E. King was born in Massachusetts in
1906 and studied under John Singer Sergeant in
Boston. His studio there folded during the
depression and he began to travel in a Model-T
Ford, panting watercolors. He settled in the
Fredericksburg area where he took work as a sign painter,
camouflaged combat planes and drew ads and posters.
He met and married Caroline native, Peggy Taylor, and
they lived in her ancestral home, The Willows in southern
Caroline. Here he built a studio near the house.

After his career began to flourish, he painted
nearly 200 historic murals for the National Park
Service including the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania
National Military Parks. He was known for his meticulous
research, attention to detail and historical accuracy,
Over the years he created much more than works
of history. Residents of Caroline and beyond, cherish
such subjects as land and seascapes, flowers, animals
religious subjects and portraits.
He painted prolifically for nearly 80 years, working
Almost daily up until his death at the age of 95 in 2002.

Showing Today

Dan Baggett

Barbara Byrd

Jen Callahan

Bev Coates

Jan Duffey

Dan Finnegan and “Potters Group”

Ariel Freeman

Patricia Hill

Alan Hite

Gladys Mattera

Elizabeth Seaver

His-Mei Yates

The People’s Choice Award
Cast your vote for which overall work of art
you like best in the show today. Ballots
can be found at the cash/receipts table.
Please be specific and include the artist’s name.
Our participants will receive this special award
with a ribbon

With Special Appreciation
Barbara A. Byrd

Bowling Green and Caroline County are
proud to claim talented artist and native
daughter, Barbara Byrd, whose work is
becoming quite well known.

Her ongoing exhibits include “Everything
Gardening” on Caroline Street in Fredericksburg
and “Beautiful Floors” on Main Street in Bowling
Green.

Over the past few years, Barbara has shown
numerous places; The Fredericksburg Center For
Creative Arts, Libertytown Arts Workshop, Central
Rappahannock Regional Library, The Wounded
Bookshop, The Heritage Fine Art Exhibit and
The Keystone Coffee Shop.

A native of Caroline born in 1949, Barbara’s
interest began when as a small child she painted
by numbers. She then received formal training by
renowned local artist, Sidney King. Her life long love
of painting lead her to take lessons from the late Carol
Campbell, Susan Stuller, Ed King, Johnny Johnson
and His-Mei Yates. Barbara’s medium of choice is
now watercolor where she feels her art becomes “alive”.

Her work includes Virginia scenes, marine life,
flora, fauna and world travels. Now she hopes to
teach and nurture others in expressing their life
experience through color, light, shapes and memories.

The Studio Of Bowling Green, Inc

We trust you will enjoy our very first
Spring Fine Art Exhibition. Going
forward we also hope to provide an
avenue for artists to gather and exchange
ideas, showcase their work, plan events
and possibly offer classes. Please make
sure you sign our guest book and provide
your contact information so we can keep
you updated on our exciting future plans.

Without the help of the following, this show
Would not have been possible

Caroline Board of Supervisors
Bowling Green Town Council
Mr. Jean Kelly
Barbara Byrd
Kathy McVay
Stephen Manster
Susan Sili
Sharon Benser
Steve Hosking and Bowling Green
Police Department
Jack Callahan
William Stanley and Public Works
Dawn Harris of Café On main Street
Toni Stinson and Dawn Trivette of The
Caroline Progress
Cheryl English of English Acres
Gary Wilson, Caroline Economic Development
Kathy Beard, Caroline Tourism Director
Curry Roberts, President, Virginia State Fair
Rappahannock Colonial Heritage Society
Caroline Chamber of Commerce
Rappahannock Valley Garden Club

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