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Gallery Shows
Join me during Rose Garden Weekend for art and book signings!
For more information:
contact Elizabeth Park
What: Storytelling, Music and Art / Booksignings
Where: Elizabeth Park Rose Garden Weekend
Date: June 19th and 20th at 2:00
Rose Weekend Schedule
Rose Gardens Open All Day! - 15,000 Rose Bushes in Bloom!
Note: The roses are blooming early this year.
June 18
Wine & Roses Garden Party Fundraiser ~ 6 pm
June 19
Family Activities under the tent ~ 11-4
Arts & Crafts, Horticultural Societies
Rose Garden Tour ~ 2 pm
Wallace Stevens Poetry Reading ~ 1 pm ~ Pond House
Storytelling / book signing with The Flying Phlox ~ 2 pm
June 20
Family Activities under the tent ~ 11-4
Arts & Crafts, Horticultural Societies
Rose Show ~ 1:30-4:30 ~ Pond House Hall
Storytelling / Book signing ~ 2 pm
Rose Weekend Schedule
Rose Gardens Open All Day! - 15,000 Rose Bushes in Bloom!
Note: The roses are blooming early this year.
June 18
Wine & Roses Garden Party Fundraiser ~ 6 pm
June 19
Family Activities under the tent ~ 11-4
Arts & Crafts, Horticultural Societies
Rose Garden Tour ~ 2 pm
Wallace Stevens Poetry Reading ~ 1 pm ~ Pond House
Storyteller ~ 2 pm
June 20
Family Activities under the tent ~ 11-4
Arts & Crafts, Horticultural Societies
Rose Show ~ 1:30-4:30 ~ Pond House Hall
Storyteller ~ 2 pm
For more information:
contact Elizabeth Park
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Arts for Aids
Show and Sale - Fund Raiser
For only $50 guests will enjoy open bar (top shelf wine bar, tequila & Hint mixers), yummy food by Salute Restaurant, a live DJ, dancing, coffee bar, dessert, a raffle, an art show and an art grab where EVERYONE goes home with an original 12 x 12 original canvas.
Guests will literally pick their canvas choice off the wall to take home; the identity of the artist will remain unknown until the moment of selection. You might take home a piece of art from a well known, famous artist... The canvases are all wonderful!
Raffle items include: 2 ten class cards for West Hartford Yoga, Costa del Sol gift certificate, Miya's Sushi certificate, local dance classes, a case of Barefoot wine, and a 3 class card for Fuller movement.
Each of the canvases were created by working artists who understand and appreciate the importance of our mission to strive to ensure quality housing and supportive services for people living with HIV/AIDS in Connecticut and to promote effective HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention education. I'm so thankful to the contributing artists and hope you'll join me at this fabulous event! DONT WAIT TO SEE THE AFTER-PICTURES AND BE SORRY YOU MISSED IT!!!
For more information or to purchase tickets go to:
contact Connecticut Aids Coalition.
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Public Galleries and recent shows:
The Town and County Club, Hartford
Windsor Art Center
Art Walk, West Hartford
Avon Massage Therapy Center
The Arts Center of Killingworth Fall Festival
The Windsor Historical Society
The McCauley Gallery, West Hartford, CT
Yale-New Haven Hospital Art Place Gallery -
Juried show and permanent collection
New Milford Hospital Foundation - commissioned work
Enlightened Professionals Center, Bloomfield, CT
The Travelers Insurance Co - Cliff House Weaving, Avon, CT
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Artist Statement
Virginia Lynn Anderson (Eland'Ra) is a self-taught artist who works with the spiritual and natural realms to create her paintings. She began her adventures in art in the late 70's when she was commissioned by The Travelers Insurance Company to create a large 18' x 9' weaving for their Cliff House in Avon, Connecticut. During the course of creating the weaving, Virginia was hired as an interior designer by the architect who was working on the Cliff House renovation. Her work with textiles shifted from creating woven pieces to designing corporate interiors for the next twelve years. It was not until the early 90's that she was inspired to capture the majesty of a summer sunset using her son's crayons and a notecard. From that inspired moment she began to explore watercolors and works on paper. Her paintings have continued to grow in expression through a wide variety of media that includes oil paintsticks, watercolors, pastels, acrylics and oil pastels.
While many of her paintings are created though the visionary process, she also receives inspiration through her intimate connection with the natural world.
"My landscape paintings become living works of art as each element reveals itself, reflecting the changes with each season. The painting is frozen in time, yet beneath the paint the journey still lives and breathes waiting to be discovered by the viewer."
Virginia's work as an artist in resident allows her to share her many creative talents with adults and children. She often works with her husband, Craig Norton providing therapeutic music, community drum
circles and creative arts integrated programs for schools, hospitals, museums and other organizations.
The name "Eland'Ra" means bringing heaven to earth. It is a spiritual name given to Virginia in meditation. The intent for all of her art is to inspire others, to assist them on their path of awakening to the divine within themselves and to share the beauty of the natural world. As she continues to explore art through new and old media, she weaves her talents as healer, musician and artist bringing inspiration to many on her path of discovery. Her work can be found in public and private galleries, hospitals and corporate collections. She works out of her studio in West Hartford, CT.
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