Art Notes

Tucker gives tour of 2 shows

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection will hold a Tucker Box Tour from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

There will be a guided tour of the current exhibits followed by lunch in the gallery.

The gallery opened a new exhibit, “Yuru-yururla: Women’s Painting from Yuendumu.” The show will remain on display through May 3, with a reception scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23. A special tour and lecture are planned Jan. 24.

A second exhibit, “All Time Favorites: Best Loved Works from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection,” also remain on view at the gallery.

You can bring your own lunch to Wednesday’s tour or order one for $8. Ordered lunches are provided by Brix, the Terrace Cafe. Reservations are required.

Kluge-Ruhe Collection is at 400 Worrell Drive, off U.S. 250 east at Pantops.

Call 244-0234 to reserve a space.

Free class on tap at Second Street

Second Street Gallery, in collaboration with Piedmont Council for the Arts and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, will host “A Horse of Course: The Equine Image in Art” from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Feb. 10.

The free training session for teachers offers re-certification points and includes a hands-on activity that can be used with all grade levels. Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Collection educator at VMFA, will lead this workshop. He will look at the horse in art history, tracing the ways in which artists have used the horse as subject matter over the millennia.

Participants will receive resource guides, lesson plans and a CD Rom of images. Refreshments will be provided.

Space for this event is limited, so call 977-7284 or email to register.

From staff reports

In January the Shenandoah Valley Invitational Gallery will feature works in different media from more than 20 members of the Rockbridge Arts Guild.

The Guild was founded in 1983 and seeks to promote visual arts and crafts in the Rockbridge area. The membership includes nearly 100 artists, artisans and supporters who live in the Lexington, Buena Vista and Rockbridge County areas. The membership meets regularly for informal presentations, demonstrations, illustrated lectures and critiques. The Guild is a nonprofit organization that provides support, education and exhibits for its members and the community and invites patrons of the arts and interested lay people to join as well as those actively working in their field.

The Rockbridge Art Guild Exhibit will run through Feb. 3.

Tje Hallway Galleries will feature SVAC’s Studio Artists next month. The center has eight studios, which are rented out to artists working in a variety of media.

The Member’s Gallery in January will have the theme of “Figures and Portraits in Two and Three Dimensions.” All SVAC Members are eligible to exhibit.

The Shenandoah Valley Art Center is at 126 S. Wayne Ave. in Waynesboro. Galleries are open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

For more information, call (540) 949-7662.

From staff and wire reports