Opening Art Reception for Ray Kass "Silk and Water"
Venue: Virginia Tech Perspective Gallery (Squires Student Center), Blacksburg
Date: Friday, January 19, 2018
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free
Description:
The Virginia Tech Perspective Gallery, located within the Squires Student Center, presents an Opening Art Reception for Ray Kass' "Silk and Water" on Friday, January 19, 2018.

Ray Kass, Virginia Tech Professor Emeritus is an internationally recognized artist whose work is influenced by the natural world. Kass is the founder and director of the Mountain Lake Workshops, an on-going collaborative experience in Appalachia where community members and students learn and work together with prominent artists such as Howard Finster, John Cage, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Jiro Okura, and M.C. Richards. These unique workshops blend dialogue with art making on topics ranging from the environment to world affairs, while building concepts on what it means to be “in community.”

Exhibited at Perspective Gallery this winter are Kass’ painted collages and ocean wave series of watercolors. The silk collages synthesize imagery of water and earth in bold compositions, which play through the veil of silk. The mixed media pieces of ocean waves capture the energy of water in the moment. Part of a university-wide exhibition of Kass’ work, Silk and Water is part of Perspective Gallery’s semester focus on the importance of water as an irreplaceable resource.

For more information on Ray Kass, visit: http://www.raykass.com/.

The exhibit will be on display from January 16 - March 3, 2018.

Admission is free and all are welcome.

For more information, visit: http://campuslife.vt.edu/Squires/Perspective_Gallery.html or https://www.facebook.com/VTPerspectiveGallery or call 540-231-6040.