by Jeff Maisey | Dec 19, 2017 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio Exhibitions at the TCC VAC are always a pleasant viewing experience. Shelley Brooks knows how to edit and install beautiful shows in that attractive facility. And the faculty members and administrators—past and present—are practicing,...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 21, 2017 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio Enchanted by Glass is, to be sure, a story about legendary designer, craftsman, and businessman, René Lalique (1860-1945), and his seemingly enchanted career that burgeoned during a time of artistic, scientific, and technological flourishing in...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 20, 2017 | Art, Art News, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio Recently, I was treated to a preview of Wayne’s World. No, not that Wayne’s World. Not even close. No, this is the world that Wayne White, of Pee Wee’s Playhouse fame, has created for MOCA based on the two-day Battle of Hampton Roads when, in 1862,...
by Jeff Maisey | Aug 22, 2017 | Art, Art News, Art Previews, Current Exhibits
By Jim Roberts Crizti Walsh has spent many of her nights and weekends the last two and a half years painting an eclectic bunch of characters. Among them: a trapeze artist, a voodoo priestess, a woman with progeria and a Tanzanian albino. She said that painting these...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 18, 2017 | Art, Art News, Art Previews, Current Exhibits
By Betsy DiJulio Twenty-five years after the exhibition Dream House quickly became one of the most memorable and historic in Peninsula Fine Arts Center History, and even the region, the exhibition concept has shape-shifted into the 21st century as Dream House Remix,...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 16, 2017 | Art, Art News, Art Reviews, Current Exhibits
Words by Betsy DiJulio Photo by Eleise Theuer On Saturday, May 3, Hampton Roads proudly flew its Freak Flag…and I mean that in the most positive way. It was Norfolk like you’ve never seen it. And it was awesome. Some of us looked like we got lost on the way...
