Have a Safe and Healthy New Year with our Updated January Schedule of Events

We’ve made a few adjustments to our January schedule but look forward to connecting with you in the new year.

If you’re reading this you’re a supporter of the Fine Arts Center, and we appreciate you! You have helped to keep us open during challenging times. You may have taken one or more of our online courses or participated in the free children’s art kits that we deliver each month. We thank all of you who have helped us to celebrate and promote the arts and artists from the New River Valley.

Despite the many positive accomplishments at the end of the past year, we have noticed a spike in the number of COVID cases in our region. Because of this, we’re going to close the Center temporarily and postpone some of the events planned for early January. We want to be sure you and the volunteers and artists we work with continue to be safe and healthy in the new year. We also want to support our medical professionals and first responders whose resources have become stretched thin during this time of emergency. We hope this is a temporary adjustment as data from communities across the globe have suggested that despite the spike in new cases, there has been quick turnarounds in terms of reducing numbers.

Please note the following changes to our January schedule:

• L.S. King’s workshop on Creative Mindfulness has been postponed to Saturday, January 29.

• Ragtime Fred’s performance at our First Friday Listening Room has been postponed later in the year. Bud and Beth are looking forward to performing, but we are still working out a new date. If you reserved free tickets on EventBrite, you will receive notice through email. Otherwise, check out our website for updates.

• The opening of the annual Scholastic Art Awards show will likely be delayed, hopefully no more than a week. We will, however, post an online gallery of the talented student winners from this recent competition. Check our website for updates.

Please take care of yourselves. Be heathy and strong, and we’ll reopen the Center again as soon as we find it safe to do so.

Wishing you a year of unlimited possibilities! Image by Paul Stachowiak on Pixabay.