This last Saturday, Sept. 28, in Bedford Hall from 2-4 p.m., was an amazing event. For the first time ever in Bedford, the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts and the Longwood University Department of Theatre, Art and Graphic and Animation Design put on an art exhibit called the “Emerging Arts.” Every March, the LCVA puts on an exhibit of art work created by hundreds of Kindergarten through twelfth grade students from local counties. Then, in the following fall, the LCVA joins with Longwood University’s College of Education and Human Services to show off selected works from the spring exhibit in Hull.
On Saturday, it featured only selected high school students’ works from the LCVA’s 2012 and 2013 Youth Art Month Highlights Exhibitions. This was a great experience for the young artist from high school because Longwood’s Kappa Pi (International Honorary Art Fraternity’s) gave tours of the art building so the students could gain a greater knowledge for the possibilities of art after graduation.
An artist I got to talk to wasa from Cumberland High. Alexa Massey is a 10th grader, and she made the watercolor painting Façade. Massey said she wanted a picture full of emotion, a person crying. She got inspiration from a mug shot of a woman who was crying, which made her wonder why exactly the woman was crying. Was it simply because she was going to prison, or could there have been other reasons?
Amanda Haymans, the School Programs Educator from the LCVA says that the event went well, and she is interested in doing it again. There are many upcoming events put on by the LCVA, such as “Artwork from Camp Unity” on display from Oct. 13 to Jan. 3 and “Create” put on from Oct. 25 to Jan. 3 of this year.
