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In addition to the high-quality framing available to artists through Dan Lewis’ skills, Middle Street Gallery serves artists by providing a gathering place. Artists drop in regularly to discuss career developments and current projects. Both formal and informal dialogues about issues in the arts take place, including slide presentations by guest artists around the country.
The gallery also serves the community. High school art classes, elementary school children, senior citizens and people who have never been in a gallery before now have the opportunity to see imaginative and exciting artwork. Since many of the local artists draw on the surrounding land and people for their material, residents have an increased personal involvement with the artistic process because of Middle Street Gallery.
The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community was also nominated for its contribution to providing greatly increased cultural opportunities to the area. RAAC operates the Gay Street Theatre in Washington, Virginia, where highquality films are shown each week and a wide variety of RAAC sponsored guest artists perform. Due to RAAC’s renovation efforts, the facility is available for community use after being abandoned for many years. RAAC also brings cultural opportunities to the young people of the area through cooperation with the schools and to senior citizens through contact with the Area Agency on Aging. A general effort is made to increase the awareness of and usefulness of the arts in daily life. Over 15,000 people have attended RAACsponsoredevents thus far.
These four nominees for the Governor’s Awards are representative of the genuine caring for artistic quality that is present and growing throughout rural Virginia.
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