Round Hill Arts Center - Educational Classes

Round Hill Arts Center
35246 Harry Byrd Highway
Rt 7
Round Hill, VA 20142

540-338-5022

Press Releases:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: September 23, 2009
Contact: Haig and Jill Evans-Kavaldjian
co-op@artsandletters.net
703-297-8042

Call to Artists: Help Create a New Cooperative Art Gallery

Artists living and working in or near Western Loudoun County are encouraged to meet at Franklin Park Arts Center each Wednesday evening from 7 to 9pm, to become part of an exciting new effort to establish a cooperatively-run art gallery near Round Hill. The new gallery will be co-located with the Round Hill Arts Center, scheduled to reopen at its new location in the Hill High Orchards building in the next few months. The new gallery would be run by and for area artists, and will benefit from increased traffic and plentiful parking as an integral part of the new cultural community space being created at the well-known and popular Hill High location.

We're building this project from the ground up to provide exhibit opportunities for area artists! Committees are being formed to create this exciting new venue. They include:

• Membership Standards (defining the terms of membership);
• Publicity & Marketing (creating effective promotions and advertising);
•Governance & Finance (establishing our rules & bylaws, and projecting financial goals for the co-op);
•Physical Plant (determining the look and feel of the gallery space); and
• Gallery Management (defining all aspects of day-to-day gallery operations).
We're eager to meet you and hear your ideas about this project. If you would like to join the arts co-op and bring your skills to help shape it, please visit http://theartscoop.ning.com/ and register, and join us at our next meeting.

The Round Hill Arts Center is a community-based and community-supported 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to providing opportunities to explore the creative arts through classes, exhibits, musical events, artist meetings and more.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: September 15, 2009
Contact: Lisa Zimmer-Chu
Interim Board President, Round Hill Arts Center
540-338-5022

ROUND HILL ARTS CENTER TO RELOCATE TO HILL HIGH ORCHARDS

If all goes according to plan, the Round Hill Arts Center will be established in a new home in the Hill High Orchards building before the holidays.

According to RHAC Executive Director Frank Naylor, the Center has signed a letter of intent for the new space, which will be behind the existing Hill High Country Store. The space will include a brand new state-of-the-art pottery studio, art studios for classes and room for a new gallery.

The Center has grown exponentially since its inception in 2000. Interim Board President Lisa Zimmer-Chu explained that over the summer, the Board of Directors made the decision to move from the Center’s original location in the Old Furniture Factory in Round Hill “in order to pursue a location that would better support the Center’s mission and continued growth.”

“The new location keeps us in Round Hill but with quality space designed to be an art center from the ground up with room to grow,” Naylor said. “It will meet code, be ADA accessible, and be more economical to operate.”

In addition, the Hill High Orchards location is in a high-traffic area, has ample paved parking, outside space with tables and a small lake to facilitate outside events and classes in season, Naylor added. “It is an exciting start,” he said.

The Board envisions and is working toward an artist supported co-operative gallery space that would be staffed by the artists themselves. “This will be the only artists’ co-op in western Loudoun County,” Zimmer-Chu said.

“In talking with other artists who’ve sold and worked with the Center, we’re all really excited about actively supporting and working with the Art Center board in their new location,” said Waterford fiber artist Mary Kenesson.

Local artist and member of the co-operative committee Meredith Hilt agreed, saying she is “really excited to see the Round Hill Arts Center expand its horizons and be able to offer so many more wonderful opportunities for artists and the community.”

While the Center’s primary focus will be on visual arts classes and the artists’ co-op, Zimmer-Chu said a variety of musical events, in keeping with the Center’s popular Bluegrass Jam Sessions at the Old Furniture Factory building, are being planned for the future.

The Center has already moved out of the Old Furniture Factory and expects to be operational in the Hill High Orchards location within 30-60 days. In the interim, arrangements have been made to hold classes in temporary off-site locations.

“As with all non-profits,” Zimmer-Chu said, “ongoing community support is critical, especially during transition periods.” The Center is encouraging continued community input, attendance at classes, volunteerism and tax-deductible financial donations.

The Round Hill Arts Center is a community-based and community-supported 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to providing opportunities to explore the creative arts through classes, exhibits, musical events, artist meetings and more.

In the Press:

“Round Hill Arts Center Eyes Move, Expansion" by Eva Gross, Leesburg Today, August 7, 2009.

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"Round Hill Arts Center, a rainbow of opportunities” by Lisa Linn Arroniz, The MainArtery June-July 2007 page 8-9.
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Our Bluegrass & Folk Jam Session was recently featured in the Loudoun Times Mirror article “Grassroots bluegrass” by Matt Van Tassel on June 18, 2007
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Leesburg Today “Western Loudoun Artists Open Studios This Weekend” on June 1, 2007.
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Élan magazine (Loudoun edition) May 2007

Round Hill Arts Center was voted # 2 in the “best place to see art” category of the “Best of Loudoun – 2006” Leesburg Today readers poll.
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"Folk art to folk jam at Round Hill Arts Center", Loudoun Times Mirror, November 21, 2006
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"Creative Spaces”, Loudoun Times Mirror, June 21 2006
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"Round Hill's Heart", Loudoun Times Mirror, February 15, 2006
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Jam session articles:

"The slow revival of Bluegrass", Washington Post, February 18, 2006.
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"Grooving into the New Year in Round Hill" , Loudoun Times Mirror, December 26, 2006
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"Round Hill Celebrates 'Last Night' Of 2006", Leesburg Today, December 27, 2006
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“a high lonesome sound”, June 2005, Élan magazine (Loudoun edition)