Opening Reception: August 8th, from 5-7PM.

When I close my eyes and picture of where I come from and where I most want to be, I see the outline of the hills and hollows in West Virginia, an old Wayne County family farm, the woods I played in growing up in Kanawha County, the bogs and trails in Canaan Valley, the ponds and brambles and mountain I see near my house, glimpses of light through trees, cloudscapes, and water - the Coal River, Elk River, the Blackwater, the Mon, and the Kanawha, the waves of the Atlantic. 

These images/memories are so integral to who I am as a person, that they’re embedded into every impulse of my artwork.

Although I’ve been making jewelry for more than 15 years now, my visual art has gone on in the background. I used to paint landscapes in a romantic-realism style, but the urge to abstract was always there, and I’ve been moving more and more toward a process that includes intuition+memory+gesture+layers of paint, charcoal, and oil pastel. These paintings are part of that ongoing body of work: Memory’s Landscape.

- Marj Moses, 2025

Displaying from August 8th - September 17th in the Maxwell Gallery.

Opening Reception: Friday, August 8th, from 5-7PM.

“Beyond on the Syllabus” features artwork from Davis & Elkins College Art Faculty, Kevin M. Woodcock, Korey Burns, Nick Altman, Margaret Bruning, Desire Watson, Natalie Josimovich, Tessa Garver-Daniels, & Melanie Campbell, will have their works on display. A chance to see the educators art in the community.

Displaying from August 8th to September 17th.

The Arts Centers’ 22nd Annual Holiday Artist Market
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Enjoy the holidays at The Arts Center and showcase your creativity at one of our largest annual community events! Set up your vendor table for two festive days as we welcome more than a thousand community members through our doors. This is your chance to share your handcrafted artwork, connect with new audiences, and be part of a celebration that supports both artists and the arts in our region.

Featuring… The Ginsangers!

Connie Townsend and Dave Parker have performed as a duo for many years. They formed the Ginsangers about 20 years ago and under that banner have performed in trios and with their big band. Connie’s vocal work and their songwriting have received national awards and recognition. The Ginsangers have appeared on Mountain Stage, Merlefest, and venues from Maine to Louisiana. They have had airplay on Sirius XM, Public Radio and other outlets. Their mix of blues, classic country, gospel, and Americana reflect the wide range of influences in their musical life. Their own songs are straight-up original.

Our Brown Bag Concerts take place every third Wednesday of the month, from 12-1PM in the Great Hall at RCCAC. Entry is free, lunch is encouraged, and conversations are delightful.

Thank you to Davis Trust Company for sponsoring this concert series!

Opening Reception: June 13th, 5-7PM

“I am a painter and a potter. I no longer take a break from pottery to do a painting or vice versa. Clay is now my canvas. I work out of my studio/gallery 533 Fairfax Avenue in Davis, WV with a view overlooking the beautiful Appalachian Mountains.

I think many potters will tell you that clay chose them. I talk to other potters that were first painters. They say once they touched clay they were hooked. The technical aspect of clay is a wonderful challenge. The idea that I make my canvas (pottery) to paint on is exciting. I am making, refining, and participating in every aspect of my craft from constructing the form, decorating, glazing, and firing the work.

I use porcelain because unlike earthenware or stoneware it is a pure gleaming white. Porcelain clays are unforgiving to work with. It shrinks, it warps, and it cracks - - - but all of ceramics is a challenge whether it be the quirks of glaze, clays or temperature of the kiln. Because I am building up the colors for the image, the pots are fired in the kiln four or five times before they have their final glaze firing. That means sometimes they have been fired for a total of fifty hours!

My work is nature based. My canvas is primarily plates; they are food safe but are also wired so they can be hung on the wall for decoration. The thrown plates have landscape or animal images using underglazes under a clear glaze. The images are in-keeping with my watercolor paintings. The fun part is the challenge of designing the local landscape images in the round for the rims of the plates. The vases, jars and small dishes are decorated with plants found in my yard, woods, and local gardens along with the patterned stamps I make.

I started with watercolor as an undergraduate then went on to receive my masters in ceramics. I spent my professional life as an art teacher being an active advocate for Arts education for all WV students on all grade levels. Even though I am no longer in the public school system I continue to teach workshops in my studio. I am proud to be National Board-Certified Teacher”- Nanette Seligman, 2025.

Displaying: June 13th to July 31st in the Maxwell Gallery.

Opening Reception: June 13th, from 5-7PM.

“We are creating a collaborative body of work examining the idea of trash as a social construct, and the creative potential of discarded objects. We are working to create beauty out of anything we can scavenge: our own trash, other people’s, old artworks, natural detritus, scraps and off-cuts. Our goal is to re-compose these objects, reclaiming them and recombining them using our collective skills and ingenuity.”

Featured Artists: Nevada Tribble, Willa McWhorter, Rosalie Haizlett, and Domenica Queen.

Displaying: June 13th to July 31st in the Great Hall Gallery.

Race Day is September 27th at 11AM.

Join us for the annual RunForIt fundraising event in Davis, WV, hosted by the Tucker Community Foundation. This event is tailored to support nonprofit organizations from numerous counties across WV, and we are so grateful for this opportunity.

Why fundraising is important: As a rural Arts Center, fundraising helps us adhere to our mission of providing diverse and quality arts programming. The money raised goes directly to planning our next events, exhibitions, and classes for our community. We kindly ask for you to join our team, so we can continue to provide Randolph County residents (and beyond) with a place to embrace their artistry, connect with community, and to enhance the economic life of our region.

Click here to join our team: https://runsignup.com/Race/136743/Donate/4cLrwWqw2ypjKMbP

I’ve always found it interesting to imagine the way things looked long ago. I’m fascinated by the idea that the Appalachian Mountains were first formed around 480 million years ago, and subsequent periods of erosion and tectonic plate collisions gave us the mountains that we are familiar with today. As an artist, I try to create work that reflects these geological processes by using images from the past and allowing the oil painting process itself to mimic the natural forces that have shaped the world by slowly building up layers of paint, and then allowing drips to obfuscate and distort parts of the images, I became interested in spray paint and pop art images, while working in a bicycle repair shop in Seattle, Washington, I developed a fondness for images that were often juxtaposed with run down sections of town, or otherwise industrial areas, and it seems that the artists who made these images were often making pieces that were more interesting than the ones I would find in galleries and museums, and I became interested in finding out why that was, I thought maybe it had to do with the nature of spray painting, one is not necessarily constrained by a studio, the rules of “fine art “, rather one has to work quickly, in the outdoors working with images that can convey a message across cultural and political lines.

My hope is that these paintings can offer the viewer a chance to think about the fragmentary moments that pass us by with little notice, and yet become important to us with the passage of time, as each
painting references the past and offers a meditation on our place in the world. I don’t seek to hide the
painting process, which allows the images to be recognized as self-conscious attempts to create an
experience which references history, geology, mythology, and the nature of artistic expression.

Michael Doig

February 2025

RCCAC is celebrating 24 years of providing exquisite arts programming to our community. We celebrate with artists by showcasing their work in a juried exhibition. Awards include Best in Show, First, Second, Third, Honorable Mention, Paul Bonnes 3D Award, and People’s Choice (community votes on their favorite piece). Juried by Brian Michael Reed.

We're teaming up with the Snowshoe Foundation to sell tickets for the upcoming #TreasureonTheMountain event on August 2, 2025!

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Opening Reception: March 14th, 4-6PM

Displaying from March 14th to April 16th on grey panels in the Great Hall.

The work is that of student art majors, minors and other students who are studying other fields and taking art courses as a general elective class. The exhibit will include paintings, prints, ceramic, drawings, digital images, digital photographs and 3D sculptural pieces. “All our students work very hard to create what they see in their mind when they start working on their artwork. The process of making art involves creative thinking, daily observation and many practice drawings to work out the final outline of their idea. Sometimes that idea changes in the course of creating and the students must figure out how to make their work adapt to those changes. Creating artwork involves lots of problem solving on the part of the creator to get it right,” Woodcock says. “The students work very hard and take pride in their artwork and this exhibition is an opportunity for them to share it with the community.”

The D&E Creative Art Department faculty is made up of Associate Professor of Art, Chair Kevin “Woody” Woodcock, Assistant Professor of Art Korey Burns and Adjunct Instructors Eric Armstrong, Desire Watson, Margaret Bruning, Tessa Garver-Daniels and Natalie Josimovich.

Opening Reception: March 14th, from 4-6PM.

March is Youth Art Month! Join us in celebrating Elkins High School Senior art students and the phenomenal artwork they have been creating since the beginning of the school year. Their artwork showcases an array of mediums and techniques that their dedicated instructors have now instilled in them. With all of the hard work the students and instructors have been putting into this show, it is only fitting that the celebration of their efforts is just as grand. Kids Need Art!

This exhibition will display from March 14th- April 16th.

Opening Reception Friday, March 14th, 4-6PM.

EMS, TVMS, TVHS, ASA, and Artsbank students, as well as instructors, have been had at work preparing for this exhibition since the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year. March is Youth Art Month, which is even more reason to help us celebrate and encourage our community’s future artists!

Sponsored by Kiwanis. Thank you Kiwanis!

Arthurdale Heritage

Opening Reception is on January 24th, from 5-7PM.

Presentation/Lecture on February 8th, from 1-4PM, led by Elizabeth Saterfield, lead curator of the exhibition. Gallery will be open 12-7PM on the 8th.

The Fiber Arts Legacy of Arthurdale showcases over eighty exceptional textiles created by Arthurdale homesteaders in Preston County, beginning in the 1930s as well as fiber artists in the region today. The exhibition also incorporates hands-on elements and demonstrations: learn how to card and spin wool, weave on a rigid-heddle loom, and feel wool, silk, and cotton fibers. “We are honored for the opportunity to feature so many historic textiles which have previously never been displayed,” says Elizabeth Satterfield, curator at Arthurdale Heritage. “The fiber arts are a perfect representation of Appalachian resourcefulness, creating something with your own hands that is both useful and beautiful.”

Fiber arts have been woven into the rich fabric of the Arthurdale community since its inception in 1933. Championed by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthurdale became the first New Deal homestead, establishing a pattern to be repeated across the nation. Focused on subsistence agriculture and cooperative industry, traditional Appalachian crafts such as weaving, furniture-making, and blacksmithing all became key elements of the project. For 90 years, generations of women have learned to weave across Appalachia— mentored by teachers, relatives, friends, and neighbors. The impact and value of their work is still seen today in the woven pieces left behind as well as the artistic skills demonstrated by their descendants.

This exhibit will be open to the public through March 5th, 2025.

Funding for this exhibition is provided by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the Central Appalachia Living Traditions program.