Carnegie Hall invites the community to the inaugural Carnegie Hall Artwalk on Friday, October 4, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. ArtWalk events at Carnegie Hall are free and offer visitors the opportunity to explore a wide variety of original work by local and regional artists, all set in a world-class historical venue.
Visitors are encouraged to immerse themselves in the arts while enjoying live music, complimentary light refreshments, and a cash bar. Each exhibit rotation features creative collaborations and three separate galleries showcasing unique work in multiple mediums, ranging from contemporary portraits in oil to heirloom level craft arts.
“It’s an INSIDE VIEW of My Art” by Merideth Young will hang in the Lobby Gallery. Young is a jeweler, painter, and all-around art maker. In 1995, she graduated with a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design from Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. She has had her jewelry and artwork at Tamarack, in Beckley, and is the proud owner of an art gallery in downtown Lewisburg called Young at Art.
The Old Stone Room will feature “Anything Goes” by the West Virginia Watercolor Society (WVWS). The WVWS was created in 1984 by a group of artists to promote and ensure the high standards of the art of watercolor painting in the state of WV, to guide and assist the student and aspiring watercolor artist in WV, and to encourage within the public the advancement and understanding of the broad scope of watercolor painting. In the years since, the 54-members continue to hold watercolor workshops, publish a newsletter, and by host both juried and non-juried exhibitions.
The Museum Gallery will feature oil painter Robert Singleton’s “Cloudscapes.” Singleton, a West Virginian by choice, has been painting from his remote mountaintop home in picturesque Hardy County for more than 40 years. A nationally recognized artist, Singleton moved to West Virginia in 1978 in search of privacy, time, and space. His work is represented internationally in prestigious private and public collections. In 2022, Singleton was named a Master Artist Fellow by the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts.
The exhibits run through the end of December and are free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. For more information, please visit carnegiehallwv.org, call (304) 645-7917, or stop by the Hall at 611 Church Street, Lewisburg, WV.
Carnegie Hall programs are presented with financial assistance through a grant from the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
