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Stryk’s ‘Notes on the State of Virginia’ is on exhibit

Suzanne Stryk’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” begins March 1 at the William King Museum of Art, Abingdon, Virginia.

In This Issue

• Stryk: From scientific illustrator to artist Suzanne Stryk started as a scientific illustrator in the ‘80s.
• Barter Theatre asked to expand to Mount Airy The City of Mount Airy, North Carolina, is looking to develop the former Spencer’s Mill industrial property downtown, and asked Barter Theatre to expand operations.
• Sunday with Friends continues at library The 2018 “Sunday with Friends” literary series in Abingdon, Virginia, hosts Janisse Ray.
• Arts for youth spotlight: Emily McCraw Emily McCraw was born into a musical family.
• Arts Array announces March lineup Virginia Highlands Community College announces its March lineup.
• Paramount Bristol announces spring lineup The spring lineup at Paramount Center for the Arts, Bristol. Tenn., runs the gamut from country to comedy, classic rock to indie films, and chamber music to bluegrass.
• King University’s professor’s play premieres at United Solo Festival in New York City King University theater professor Kiara Pipino premiered her one-woman play, “Everyone’s a Hero with Someone Else’s Tit,” on Broadway in New York City at the eighth annual United Solo Festival.
• ETSU alumni and staff win Grammy awards East Tennessee State University alumni Brent Burke and Hunter Berry and all members of Rhonda Vincent and The Rage, took home a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album during the 60th annual Grammy Awards.
• Johnson City Library receives funding for new craft area for youth The Arts Committee of the GFWC The Monday Club of Johnson presented Johnson City Public Library Director Robin Westphal with a check for $2,500 to help pay for a dedicated craft area in the Youth Services department of the library.

A! Extra

• Glade Spring residents broaden skills, make connections in library’s art class GLADE SPRING, Va. — A social painting night has arrived in Glade Spring.
• Turner: Birthplace of Country Music Museum experience prepared her for new role as executive director of the American Folklore Society Jessica Turner wasn’t angling for a job when she expressed best wishes to the retiring executive director of the American Folklore Society.
• The Crooked Road Nominated for Independent Music Awards at New York’s Lincoln Center Most of the time, The Crooked Road is 330 miles long and never leaves Virginia. But on March 31, its length will increase about 500 miles and connect Southwest Virginia to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York for the 16th annual Independ
• Students, recent grads earn accolades from advertising federation Students and recent graduates of East Tennessee State University were recognized by the American Advertising Federation Northeast Tennessee during its annual “ADDY” awards ceremony.
• Bristol residents strap in for annual James Wimmer Bristol Bluegrass Spring Fest BRISTOL, Va.: Ralph Stanley chewed on a peanut butter cookie after the mountain music king’s show in Clintwood. Moments later, Clinch Mountain Boy Randall Hibbitts sauntered by for a chat.
• Technical center students show off thier talent at Abingdon’s Arts Depot ABINGDON, Va.: Cassie Martino is a student who recently used her welding skills to fuse a metal farm scene complete with a fire tower, barn, silo and the Mendota swinging bridge.
• Improved Rocky Mount prepares to welcome guests PINEY FLATS, Tenn.: “This is not your father’s Rocky Mount,” said Sam Wegner, as he viewed the results of recent construction at the historic site in Piney Flats.
• Teachers of Promise … & the promise of teaching By the time you read these words, I will have returned from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, fresh from a two-day stay at the Teachers of Promise Institute. I will have spent those two days striving to further inspire several of Virginia’s
• Local men bring live music and comfort to BRMC BRISTOL, Va.: Rippling chords echo through the vaulted central corridor of Bristol Regional Medical Center as the gnarled fingers of lifelong piano players glide effortlessly over the ivory keys.
• Johnson City Jazz Festival tunes in for second year Spread wide and step inside the wide umbrella span of jazz music. Bebop to swing, Afro-Cuban to fusion to dance-with-whomever-jazz returns to Little Chicago. So make room for the 2nd Annual Johnson City Jazz Festival. Set to stage at Johnson City’s Carn
• Mountain Music Museum, ACMA donate vintage records to ETSU JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.: A rare collection of vintage records was donated Friday to East Tennessee State University by the Mountain Music Museum and the Appalachian Cultural Music Association. Mountain Music Museum Executive Director Rick Dollar said a home w