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tion is the first of its kind — a combination of storytelling, traditional hymns and songs, dance and movement, and slides of paintings by Laurie Marshall.
The presentation begins at the local theater on the corner of Gay and Jett streets and concludes with a processional form scattering flowers and “banishing darkness and overpowering masks” of children leading the artist and audience to a reception at the Middle Street Gallery, which houses the Marshall exhibition.
Tickets for the event are $6 for adults and $3 for children and are available by contacting Rappahannock Association for Arts and The Community at 675-3440.
“I have been working since November,” Mrs. Marshall said, sitting in a crowded studio in her Washington home. Paints, nearly complete canvases, photographs and sketches line the walls and litter seats and table spaces.
“I am working with four other women on the performance piece,” she said, adding this exhibition is a “new way to express different energies. I am intergrating my engeries,” with the piece.
The Washington-based artist is a familiar face in Rappahannock. Many may remember her from the county schools as a teacher or from her active support in community projects. Some may remember her in the position of artist-in-residence in Rappahannock County schools. As part of her residency, Mrs. Marshall painted “dreams” in the lobby of the Rappahannock County Elementary School and has conducted an ongoing art class with students there using art and history in projects.
As an educator and an instrumental partner in the production of two local storytelling and theater productions, “The Ties that Bind,” and “Voices of Rappahannock,” Marshall uses storytelling in her presentation; as a dancer with the Last Minute Wood Company Dance Company in Sperryville over the last several years, her energies are incorporated into dance to enhance her presentation; music and song add the final energy to her work — 16 oil on wood paintings, some as large as a wall, some concise 12-inch by 12-inch squares.
Songs like “May the Circle Be Unbroken,” and “Happy Birthday” in harmony are examples of the music. The stories involve “dreams” the painting were inspired by and two stories of sacrifice, “Education of
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