Visitors and the artist enjoy The Crown Clown Prince of Gourdomania

The Hayloft Gallery is located in the upper level of our renovated barn. Its arched ceiling gives a sense of spaciousness that makes it one of the best showrooms in southwest Virginia. Climate control makes it a safe place for all media.

The mission of the Hayloft Gallery is to provide an aesthetic environment to showcase the work of local and regional artists and artisans, to encourage, inspire and educate the growing artist and the public as to the value and importance of creative expression in a rural mountain culture, and to contribute to the quality and diversity of the local economy.

2012 Hayloft Gallery Schedule

Annual Student Art Exhibit
December 9, 2011 through January 2012

Artists Reception: Saturday January 14, 1-3pm

The center hosts exhibits of work by our local youth each year following   Winterfest.  This years exhibit features students from Floyd High School, Floyd Elementary School and Blue Mountain School,  including Christian Akers, Caitlyn Akers, Maggie Avellar, Alexis Beaver, Cody Beran, Jaimie Bolt, Alena Bond, Stephen Bordeaux, Taylor Britt, Brandey Brooks, Shaquisa Bundick, Stefnie Cerney, Yeshe Cooley, Samantha Cox, Magan Cox, Madeline Emmett, Alonzo Emmett, Victoria Estes, Sierra Gallimore, Conner Gillespie, Skyler Goad, Aliya Goldstein, Tiffany Dawn Greenway, Haleigh  Hamlin, Shawna  Harris , Allie Hicks, Thomas Holdren, M. Gabrielle Howard, Abby Hungate, Hannah Jarrell, Janee’ Keith, Maggie Kovick, Emma Lessin, Juan Loera, Fiona Mahar-Milani, Adrianna Martin, Jacob Moses, Dylan Perdue, Kayla Phillips, Sarah Phillips, Leah Pierce, Brooke Quesenberry, Travis Quesenberry, Catherine Rumburg, Jameson Shortt, Zachary Sickey, Amelia Smith, Lily Strong, Arlo Tanner, Michaela Thompson, Bryce Thompson, Draken Thompson, Taylor Tucks, Kyligh Tunstall, Christian Walters, Amanda Whitlow, Emily Wilson, Sunny, Jasmine, Sylvester, Monica, Yvonni

Friday, February 3- Saturday, February 25th

A reception and gallery walk will be held on February 4 from 2-4pm.  Barbara and Clemens von Claparede-Crola will conduct the gallery walk and discuss their first-hand experience of living in Germany during these trying times.

Children at the Wall, West Berlin

The photographs in Scenes from Behind the Wall were created during an eight-day trip through East Germany in December and January 1989-90 during the waning days of Communism. This exhibition has traveled throughout the Commonweath of Virginia and has been exhibited at the Virginia Museum for Fine Arts in Richmond.  It has served as a vehicle for presenting sensitive and revealing views of a nation that was on the verge of reunification.  Photographs were taken by American photographer Page Chichester and Helmut Brinkman, a German photographer.  Travelogue/Dialogue was written by Page Chichester and Katharina Giebel-Chichester.  Katharina, an artist and West German native, composed the second part of the commentary in the catalogue as a recollection of growing up with memories of the Berlin Wall.

Artist Reception: Saturday, March 10, 6-8pm

Winter Hart

The New Works Exhibit has been a part of the Hayloft Gallery since it’s inception.  It is an opportunity for emerging artists and artisans, and those who are experienced and established, to share their new work with the community.  This years participating artist include, Charlotte Lou Atkins, Samuel A’Court Bason, Susan Brittingham, Ernest Bryant, Ron Campbell, Audrey Caywood, Rick Cooley, Lore Deighan, Susan Egbert, Aileen fletcher, Glenda George, Art Haase, Winter Hart, Don Johnson, Fred Jones, Charlie Knighton, Floyd Bud Lohr, Gina Louthian-Stanley, Cheryl Mackian, Glenda McAlexander, Swede McBroom, Nathan Popp, Dennis Ross, Karen Sewell, Helen shaw, Sylvester Simard, Kimberly Simmons, Gretchen St. Lawrence, Agnes Stringfellow, Teri Walters, Howard Wenger and Gerri Young. click here to view the 10th Annual New Works Program

Artists Reception: Saturday May 12, 6-8pm

Bud Lohr "Uh-OH!"

It’s time to bring some humor into the gallery. We challenged artists of many backgrounds to bring humor into their work, in whatever way tickled their funny bone.  Participating artists include Malcom Black, Ernest Bryant, Ron Campbell, Lore Deighan, Susan Icove, Fred Jones, Sidra Kaluszka, Bud Lohr, Louie Scott Lovitt, Darcy Meeker, Jeanie O’Neill, Ann Shank, Helen Shaw, Susan Sutterer, Ron Sutterer, John Tobin and Geri Young

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Artists Reception: Saturday July 14, 5-8pm with Juror Talk at 5:30pm

For the third year in a row the Hayloft Gallery will host a Juried Exhibition.  We are committed to hosting one Juried Exhibition a year, offering substantial cash prizes and professional and public recognition for artists.  This year’s juror will be North Carolina based artist Jim Moon.  More information on Jim Moon can be found at http://www.jimmoon.net

Applications due: Monday, May 28

Each year we feature a silent auction leading up to our Annual Membership Dinner.  Bidding will begin on Friday, September 21 and will end the hour prior to the Membership Dinner on Saturday, September 29.  Bidding is free and open to the public.

A Portrait of Floyd
October 5, through November 24,2012

The Jacksonville Center for the Arts along with accomplished curator David Brown,  are proud to present an exciting new project by the celebrated artist Glen McClure. This April, McClure will visit Floyd to photograph Floyd citizens to be featured in a special exhibition titled A Portrait of Floyd that will premiere at the JAX this October.

Glen McClure’s powerful portrait work, according to Thomas Moore, Senior Curator of Photography at the Mariner’s Museum, “captures the distinctive qualities of the person photographed—the details of dress, stance and look that formed their physical and emotional makeup. McClure is a collector of humanity and his subjects are an ethnographic study, a record of common humanity of people on their way through their daily routines.” His portraits are well known for projecting a direct and soulful dignity, telling stories in the details and offering insights to those we may know and those we may want to know. The spirit that is uniquely Floyd will certainly shine through.

For more information on Glen McClure visit his website at http://www.glenmcclure.com/

For more information on David Brown visit his website at http://www.davidjbrown321.com/