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Rappahannock nature
artist Jeanne Drevas to
speak at library series
By Betsy Hille
Special to the Rappahannock News
When I tracked down Rappahannock artist Jeanne Drevas to interview her about her upcoming library talk and slide presentation Friday September 9 at 8 p.m. my search led me to a rooftop in Syracuse, New York where Drevas was wrestling with a sixty foot.. .‘conda! Okay, so it wasn’t a real snake she was wrestling with, but rather, it was one of Drevas’ own creations from nature: a floppy, sixty-foot long creation of hay stuffed in bird netting called “Straweonda.” Drevas was immersed in “creating” at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park near Syracuse, NY where she is in residency to create a site specific installation out of hay. Fortunately, Drevas allowed the interruption and came down off" the roof to talk with me.
Drevas explained.
“This is part of my creative life that Rappahannock residents know less about than my studio work using natural materials, not to mention my pottery.”
“For the past few summers I have been traveling to various art parks, colleges and even a Victorian cemetery to interact a bit of my nature with the larger nature.. I get to revel in the possibilities of a well known material such as fallen pine, needles, and renew our attention to the natural world by raising them back into the trees, or in this case back onto the roof.
See DREVAS, Page B2
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