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From Firnew Founder and Director Trish Crowe:
The Firnew Farm Artists’ Circle will exhibit its 8th Woodberry Forest art show: SANCTUARY, at Woodberry Forest’s Baker Gallery during the month of August 2024. A multi-media art extravaganza to welcome back its students, families and our community. The excellence and variety of the art represents a culmination of the incredible collaboration of these artists. From water to oil painting, realism to the abstract, from jewelry to ceramics, there is something to delight all.
The Firnew artists selected the theme of SANCTUARY as a place that is safe, peaceful, and a comfort of refuge and rest in this noisy, chaotic world. It is their hope that as the students return to their academic studies, this body of artistic creativity will provide just that.
The Firnew Artists’ Circle inspired by the Ekphrastic event co-held with the Virginia Poetry Society at the Arts Center in Orange in March 2024 will exhibit some of the Sanctuary art with poetry created specifically for the art.
For twenty one years Firnew artists have kept the spirit alive as they continued to evolve and create masterful pieces that enchant and delight. Firnew’s creativity, community, collaboration and compassion have seen numerous artists through its door, garnered many awards for their artwork, spear-headed scholarship awards and judged Greene County and Madison County school Art Shows. A five year collaboration with the Virginia Master Naturalists and the University of Virginia’s Poison Control Center fueled two exhibitions: “The Socrates Project” in 2019 followed by “The Cleopatra Project” in 2022.”
Click to view the SANCTUARY Art & Artist Catalogue
Please take a few minutes to view John Berry’s video, Firnew at 15, created in 2018: