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Artist Maggi Morris
displays her works
at School House
By LISA CURRIE
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The wooden, alabaster and soapstone pieces of art perfected by sculptress Maggi Morris of Castleton add a different, though appropriate, touch to the annual Old Dominion Hunt Country Ball at 7 p.m. March 30 at the School House Restaurant in Flint Hill.
Opening her show nearly one month early, the local sculptress plans to display 15 pieces for the event, three in walnut, one in cherry and several in alabaster and soapstone.
The theme is dominated by wildlife pieces native to the mid-Atlantic states. A lifesize owl “Family” of three, 27 inches in height, and a beaver, nearly three feet in length, both in walnut, seem realistic in the rural setting.
Morris’s four-foot-tall “Guardian Angel”, shown earlier at Middle Street Gallery in Washington, towers over the show, while other pieces, like her fox created skillfully in cherry, stand timeless in the School House Gallery, located on the second floor of the restaurant, once a Rappahannock County school.
The Old Dominion Hunt Country Ball is by invitation only. The formal affair has been held at various
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