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HCAC Exhibit: Photographs By Jan Dodgins
June 24 thru August 13
The Bottling Works, 26 E. Main St., Romney
View the exhibit 9AM-4:30PM Tues-Sat, noon-4PM Sun. and during performances.
Jan, teacher of photography and graphic arts at the WV School for the Deaf for 23 years, is also an award-winning photographer, whose works have been published in Wonderful West Virginia Magazine.
HCAC Exhibit: A themed open exhibit "Picturing Summer"
Thru June
Upstairs Hampshire County Public Library
153 W. Main St., Romney
HCAC Exhibit: A themed open exhibit "Patriotic"
Thru July 17
Taggart Hall Conference Room, 91 S. High St., Romney
Monday-Friday 9AM-4PM
HCAC Free Summer Concert on the Lawn:
The Barnstormers
Sunday, July 19, 5PM
The Potomac Center, 1 Blue St. . 
Concerts move indoors if it rains. Lawn seating (bring folding chairs or blanket to sit on). Refreshments available
Tom Jolin and Slim Harrison, The Barnstormers, have played together since 1980, performing traditional American music and regularly calling dances. Notably, The Barnstormers played for Vice President Al Gore in 1995 and at the Vijandi Folk Music Festival in Estonia in 2006. They performed at the 2007 Bethlehem Musikfest and in Germany at the 2008 Moelln Fest. **Known for their high energy performances and versatility on many instruments, they are real crowd pleasers" reported the Frederick News-Post.
This program is presented with sponsorship from The Bank of Romney and partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, developed and funded by the Vira I. Heinz Endowment; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
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HCAC Awarded PennPAT Grant
Our July Free Summer Concert on the Lawn will feature the duo The Barnstormers thanks to a support grant from the Pennsylvania Performing Arts On Tour program. In addition to the free public concert, the grant will enable HCAC to offer short instrument-making workshops with these two experienced teacher/musicians. One will serve residents of The Potomac Center, where the free concerts are presented, and the second will be open to children from the community. All those who participate in the workshops will then have a chance to play their instruments along with Slim's Sunnyland Jug Band during the public performance. For info about participation in the workshop, call Shari Gallery at 304-496-8201. Washtubs and washboards will be needed for the workshop, so anyone who either has such items to donate or who would be willing to donate toward the purchase of new ones is asked to contact Shari as soon as possible.
Exhibits Schedule & Opportunities
Hampshire County artists will be in evidence all over the county in coming months thanks to an ambitious schedule of exhibits lined up by Visual Arts Chair/co-director Anne-Reneé Livingston. For details and entry information visit the Visual Arts page. Many will be "open" exhibits for which all artists in the community are invited to submit works fitting the featured theme.
The Fall Fine Arts Juried Show entry deadline is August 10 for digital entries. The Show will be on display throughout October.
Christina Collins-Smith has agreed to serve as our judge for the Fall Fine Arts Show. She is an arts advocate, artist, poet, educator, and cultural events coordinator, who earned her BA and MLA degrees concentrating in Studio Art, Art History, Cross-Cultural Studies, and Writing at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD.
An adjunct faculty member of the Division of Fine and Performing Arts at Carroll Community College, Christina also serves on the Boards of Directors of Carroll Media Communications, and The Cumberland Cultural Foundation - C. William Gilchrist Museum of the Arts. Co-founder of Common Ground on the Hill's Roots Music & Arts Festival (now retired from that Board as a Director Emeritus), she is the Founding Director of OneTree Productions.
HCAC Officers Elected at Annual Meeting
Serving as co-directors are Susan Feller, Eileen Eddis and Anne-Reneé Livingston. Nadine Miller will be HCAC's secretary, and Shari Gallery is now Treasurer. Bylaw changes were approved, expanding voting members of the board to include up to 4 designated committee chairs.