✨January First Fridays

Due to the holiday season, our January First Friday will take place on Friday, January 9, from 5:00–8:00 PM. Join us for an evening of art, community, and seasonal reflection as we welcome the new year with exhibitions celebrating landscape, photography, and the beauty of place.

In the Ann White Gallery:
Ramey Campbell: The Four Seasons
Ramey Campbell is a traditional landscape painter based in Gordonsville, Virginia, whose work is rooted in direct observation of nature. Drawing inspiration from nearby farms, rivers, ponds, and streams throughout Central Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley, and the coastal regions of Virginia and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Campbell’s paintings reflect a deep engagement with place and atmosphere.

Working primarily in oil on canvas, and occasionally pastel, Campbell often explores a single subject through a series—altering it by time of day, season, or changing atmospheric conditions. Influenced by late 19th-century French plein air painters and early 20th-century American artists such as William Merritt Chase and Willard Metcalf, The Four Seasons captures the rhythms of the natural world. Each painting invites viewers to experience a shared sense of place, time, and seasonal change.

In the Up Front Gallery:
Blue Ridge Photographic Arts Society (BRPAS) Group Exhibition
The Up Front Gallery features a group exhibition by the Blue Ridge Photographic Arts Society, showcasing a diverse range of photographic works. This exhibition highlights the technical skill, artistic vision, and varied perspectives of BRPAS members, offering compelling interpretations of the world through the photographic lens.

Meet the artists, explore painting and photography, and enjoy an evening that celebrates landscape, light, and the changing seasons—together at January First Friday.