EXHIBITS & EVENTS
CURRENTLY AT PAAL
Seeing Red: VSU Capstone Exhibition
🔴 SEEING RED: VSU’s Spring 2025 Senior Thesis Exhibition 🔴
The Virginia State University Department of Art & Design is proud to present "Seeing Red", the Spring 2025 Senior Thesis Exhibition, in partnership with the Petersburg Area Art League! 🎨✨
📅 Opening Reception: April 11, 2025 | 6 PM - 8 PM
📍 Location: Petersburg Area Art League, 7 East Old Street, Petersburg, VA 23803
🖼 Exhibition Dates: April 11 - May 10th, 2025
Join us in celebrating the creative vision of VSU’s graduating art students as they showcase their hard work, passion, and talent. Don’t miss this immersive exhibition filled with thought-provoking and visually stunning works!
Shades of Gray Live in the Art Park!
🎶 Live at the Art Park! 🎶
Join us Friday, May 2nd at PAAL for a groovin' evening with The Shades of Gray Band! 💃🕺 Get ready for a night of R&B, rock, soul, and disco under the open sky—plus your favorite song requests! 🎤✨
Bring a chair, bring your crew, and get ready to dance like nobody's watching. 🎸🌟
Music starts at 7:00pm | Free & open to the public 🎨🌆
Sound Bath & Meditation in the Art Park with Moonlight Co.
Join us Saturday May 3rd from 1pm-2pm ,for a deeply relaxing and transformative community sound bath meditation. Experience the magic of nature and sound. Set in a serene space, surrounded by fresh air and the soothing sounds of the outdoors, you’ll be immersed in healing sound vibrations. As the gentle sound waves wash over you and blend with the natural ambiance, allow your mind, body, and spirit to relax and rejuvenate and feel your stress and tension melt away.
This event offers a unique opportunity to ground and reconnect with nature while promoting deep relaxation, balance, inner peace and clarity for both body and mind. Bring a blanket or mat, wear comfortable clothing, and let the harmonious sounds guide you into a state of tranquility and a journey of self discovery under the open sky.
ARGS Spring Arts Gala
ARGS Spring Arts Gala at the Petersburg Area Art League
Join us at the Petersburg Area Art League for the ARGS Spring Arts Gala, a vibrant showcase of creative expression from the talented students of The Appomattox Regional Governor’s School. This annual exhibition features an impressive collection of 2D, 3D, and multimedia works by both senior and underclassmen visual arts students, highlighting the next generation of artistic talent in the Tri-Cities region.
Exhibition Dates: May 9 – June 7
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 9 | 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Petersburg Area Art League, 7 East Old Street, Petersburg, VA 23803
Contact: (804) 861-4611 | PAAL@PAALARTS.ORG
Come celebrate the innovation and imagination of young artists who are shaping the future of the arts. Never underestimate the magnitude of new talent.
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Showcasing our Members
Austin “Auz”Miles - Kindred
Exhibit June 9 - July 8
Artist Bio:
Andrew Samuel Harrison is a self-taught artist recently relocated from Richmond, VA to New York City, where he awaits the start of the MFA Fine Art program at Parsons School of Design. 'With The Bulls' refocuses his mixed technique practice on raw mark-making and spontaneous composition as an ongoing, iterative method of coding his visual language. Recalling his writing background, the resulting gestalt annotates his rejection of the insider-outsider art world binary he gleans from living with a limb difference.
Our featured artist for the month of April is Richmond based artist, Pedro Ledesma III. The show opens during Friday for the Arts, on April 14th, 2023 from 6PM-9PM, and will run during PAAL’s open hours (Wednesday - Saturday 10-5) until May 6, 2023.
Image is of Dr. George W.C. Lyons, Jr. at Gillfield Baptist Church, 2023, photographed by Pedro Ledesma.
February 10 - March 4, 2023
Our featured artist for the month of February is contemporary artist, Dathan Kane. Kane was born in Hampton, Virginia and presently works and lives in the Tidewater area. He graduated from Virginia State University in 2014 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Art & Design. His focus is on emphasizing organic black/white abstract shapes to create bold compositions on the choices we make, and the duality of such conventional or unconventional decisions.
Dathan Kane: Shapes Were Seen
January 13 - February 4, 2023
PAAL Members Art Exhibit
This exhibition is the premier showcase for artists residing in the Tri-cities region and is a celebration of the tremendous quality and unique diversity of visual art being produced currently. The show debuts Friday for the Art, January 13th and runs through February 4, 2023.
Bill Nicholson is the President of PAAL and has been on the board of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center for over 10 years. Through PAAL, Bill is merging his two great passions, the arts and the welfare of children, giving a voice to children who feel they are not heard. The BSCC has created animated videos to help teach children how to identify predators and to protect themselves. These videos have surpassed over 1 billion impressions and over 102,000,000 (One hundred two million views.) One of my goals is to get these into all local schools.
A collection of art therapy works created by abused children who received treatment through the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center.