Blooming In The Whirlwind, by Artist Janelle Washington is the current Downing-Gross Art Center's feature exhibit. Through the medium of 3-D layered paper cuts, the artist seeks to show a changing narrative by using the faces of youth, text, flower crowns, symbolic imagery such as Adinkra symbols, and body parts as metaphors. Washington will illuminate the innocence of … [Read more...] about Blooming in the Whirlwind
Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center
Light From All Sides at Downing-Gross
With the idea that people should focus on the love and joy around them instead of pain, Guest Curator Clayton Singleton established the exhibit Light From All Sides at the Downing-Gross Arts Center in Newport News. The nine-piece exhibit, created by nine artists, is on display until March 6 in the Newport News Community Gallery. Singleton, an accomplished artist and … [Read more...] about Light From All Sides at Downing-Gross