Welcome to Petersburg Regional Art Center, one of the largest art centers in Virginia

Petersburg Regional Art Center is located in Historic Petersburg Virginia. PRAC has a monthly juried all media art show with $600 in award money. The reception is the second Friday evening of each month. The center has several new art displays every month in the Mezzanine Gallery. PRAC has artist studios on four floors featuring a variety of work from many artists. Visit us soon!

All Media Show Winners May 2013 1st Place Mel Talley “Energy That Remains” 2nd Place Jeff Morris "Southern Enchantment" 3rd Place Binford Harrell “Lagoon Scape” Honorable Mention Jack Hayes “Natural Edge #3” Honorable Mention Charles Meyer "New York, New York" Honorable Mention Mary Montague Sikes “Once In A Night Sky” Student Show Winners May 2013 1st Place Robert Wynne “Lavender” 2nd Place Daniel Trent "Fading" 3rd Place Elliott Smith “An Argument Over Tea” Honorable Mention Amanda Groves “Crawler” Drawings Jerrica Fegans "Leopard" Paintings Sara Goholson "Humming Bird" Photography Anthony Lafata "Canal" Mixed Media Alex Miller "Peacock"

Style Weekly Article about PRAC
The Style Weekly published an article about PRAC in their September 18th issue. To view the article click on the link Article - opens to a new window

Hours
We are open from 10 AM until 4 PM Wednesday through Saturday and other hours by appointment. The art center is open for the second Friday reception every month until 10 PM.

We hope you enjoy your visit to PRAC and will return often. You may sign up for our email list by using the form on the contact page.

Events

• • • May All Media Show
Opening reception: Friday, May 10, 7pm
Juror is Valery Bates, a photographer with a background education from V.C.U. She is also a member of multiple photo organizations such as The Richmond Camera Club, The Photographic Society of America, and The National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Her PH.D is in Mass Communications from Howard University.
Reception: Friday, May 10, Awards Ceremony at 7:30pm

• • • Mezzanine Gallery Show
Student Show
All students eligible for entry! Drop off dates are the same as All Media Show.
Cash Awards - No Entry Fee - Juror Valery Bates
Open to all high school and college students
Up to three entries per student - all pieces must be framed with wire on back and ready to hang except 3-D entries
For more information call 804-733-8200.
All exhibitions end June 8, 2013.

• • • Featured Artist for the Month of May will be Braeden Web
Greg Lewis a.k.a. Toothpick Man will here with his grandson, Braeden Web. At only 5 years old, Braeden is an amazing up and coming toothpick artist himself. Braeden shows great control and patience when it comes to working on his toothpick pieces. Come on out this Friday for the Arts! and see what this little dude can do.

• • • Open Studio Every Thursday 10:30 AM to 3 PM in Studio 321. Info Chuck Meyer comeyer321@gmail.com

• • • June All Media Show Friday, June 14th, 7pm
Juror is Adrienne Azhderian-Kelly, Adrienne is a Richmond, Virginia based artist who specializes in traditional film and silver printed photography. Adrienne has won numerous awards in photography, and has had many solo and group exhibitions. Adrienne Azhderian-Kelly was born in Washington, D.C. and began making photographs of the southern landscape in 1982. Since then, she has been passionately involved in the arts and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, Virginia in 1991, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia in 1997. She has worked as a commercial free-lance photographer, operated her own photography studio in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Adrienne has been an adjunct professor of photography at Virginia Commonwealth University and has been an adjunct assistant professor of darkroom photography at University of Richmond since 1998.

Mezzanine Gallery:
Photography Show in the Mezzanine
~Entry dates same as Main Show
*$5 per entry
*Each person may enter up to 3 pieces
*All entries must be framed with wire on the back
All Shows end July 6th, 2013