GELLMAN ROOM – “Iceland and Archipelagic Encounters” – mixed-media drawings and collages by Winchester artist Geraldine W. Kiefer

DOOLEY FOYER – 2016 Virginia Vistas Photo contest winners from Scenic Virginia

DOOLEY HALL – “Reaching Toward a Hope and a Future” – a series of eight portraits of refugees depicting trauma and trials of their journey toward a better life by Richmond artist Constance de Bordenave

2ND FLOOR GALLERY –  “Abstract Surrealism” – stream-of-mind acrylics by Richmond artist Fred Weatherford

The library’s permanent collections include works by David Freed, Helen & Alvin Hattorf, and Anne Newbold Perkins.

First Friday, a monthly opening-night reception  for all the artists of the library’s galleries, will be held on Friday, July 7, 2017, from 6:30 – 9:00 pm.

For more details contact Lynn Vandenesse @ 804-646-7223

BMER AUTHOR TALK by Michael (MERJr) Robinson: author of “Dark Grimoires”  (a SciFi fantasy),  for ages 13 and up.

Michael Edwin Robinson Jr. (MERJr) was born in the winter of 1975 at Huey P. Long Hospital. He was brought up in central Louisiana and in 1994 graduated from Rapides High School in Lecompte, La. A year later he attended North Western University where he studied music and business. He later studied Psychology at Prince George Community College in Maryland. In the winter of 2013 he started writing the outline for the Dark Grimoires novel, and completed on the sixth day of December in 2015 , his birthday.

Dark Grimoires is an epic, fantasy novel filled with magic and intrigue. The story is set in a richly conceived Kingdom in Africa.

To register or for more information call: 804-646-7223.