This month’s Friday for the Arts! will be July 13 from 6-10 pm, except longer where noted. For a listing of all 31 flavors, read below:

Petersburg Area Art League
7 E. Old St., (804) 861-4611, open Tuesday-Saturday, 10:30-2:30, Sunday 1-4
Opening Reception: First-Floor Gallery: “Uptown in Old Towne,” featuring art by members of Richmond’s Uptown Gallery, an artists’ cooperative for fifteen years, with thirty-five members, most of whom will be represented in the PAAL exhibit. Their work ranges from realism & impressionism to contemporary styles. All media will be represented, including oils, watercolors. original prints, and collage. Many of the Uptown Gallery artists are award-winning, both in Virginia & nationally.
At the front entrance: Caricaturist Sagan Lacy, a rising sophomore at Savannah College of Art & Design, where he is majoring in animation.

William R. McKenney Library
137 S. Sycamore St., (804) 733-2387, open Mon. & Wed., 9-9, and Tues. & Thurs.-Sat., 9:00-5:30
Opening Reception: Lower Level Meeting Room & Gallery: “Expressions of Art thru Watercolor & Photography,” featuring the work of four Richmond-area artists, Maria Barbour, Pattie Clapperty, Patsy Fisk, & Michie Lloyd. Barbour, who lives on a farm in Hanover, works both in watercolors & photography. Clapperty finds the time to paint even while working full-time as an RN. Fisk, who has worked in photography since 1983, focuses on details, of a building, a tree, a plant, or a face. Lloyd, also an RN in Richmond, often paints animals, birds, & flowers.

Art from the Heart
13 East Washington Street, (804) 732-0274, open Monday through Saturday, 10:00-3:30
Continuing Exhibit: Striking realistic graphite portraits, graphic art, and T-shirts by freelance artist Marlon D. Bowers.

Office of Sheriff Vanessa Crawford
Courthouse Square, (804) 733-2369
New Exhibit: Striking realistic graphite portraits & artwork by Marlon D. Bowers, freelance artist & owner of Art from the Heart.

John Tyler Community College Gateway Outreach Center
218 North Sycamore Street, (804) 862-6420
Continuing Exhibits: Seven John Tyler art students: Martha Brogley (”Found Horizons”�oils)); Zita Ellison (”Thematic Realism”); Pat Farris (”Artwork 2006-2007″); Shannon Gilbert (”Anticipation”); Rani Popli-Aibara (”Fauvism Revisited”); Terry Lynn Smith (”Eyes of the Soul”); & Robert L. Wynne “Photos from Scotland, Summer 2006″).

Kimberly Ann’s
246 North Sycamore Street, (804) 733-2828, www.ilovekimberlyanns.com, Tuesday-Saturday, 10-5
New Exhibit: Bridget Copa Nelson & her daughter Jessica Frazier unveil their newest creations, “Beetle’s Bugs” and “Jessica’s Jewels.” Mr. G, the magician, will dazzle you with his sleight of hand and treasure trove of tricks.

Dixie Diner
250 N. Sycamore St., (804) 732-7425, open Mon.- Sun., varying hours
Continuing Exhibit: “Work.” A group showing featuring Ben Barnes, Genna Boutemy-Buchanan, Isabel Gutierez, Toliver Roebuck, Jane Vukmer, & others.
Live music: Michael Redman (sax & rax), 6:00-8:00 pm; BC & Gray (jazz, blues), 9:00 pm.-1:30 am.

Cockade City Grill
305 N. Sycamore St., (804) 862-2537
Continuing Exhibit: New work by local artist Evelyn Quaye, featuring oils, acrylics, & pencil drawings of musicians performing in the area, especially at the Cockade City Grill.
Live music: Loose Gravel (Southern rock), 9:00 pm.-1:00 am.

South Side Depot
37 River Street, 732-3531
New Exhibit: Continuous showings of a fifteen-minute video entitled “Battle of the Old Men and Young Boys, June 9, 1865.” The presentation describes the battle that pitted the Petersburg militia against the Union cavalry under August Kautz. Although they lost fifteen killed, eighteen wounded, and forty-five captures, the young men
and boys held off Union forces long enough to save the City from capture.

Patricia Dillard’s Antiques & Oddities
1 E. Old St., (804) 733-7014, www.patriciadillardantiques.com
“Red-Hat Ladies,” framed acrylics by Page Roller. Exhibit by Jeff Seymour of historic photographs of Petersburg streetscapes. Continuing Exhibits: Floral collection by Hopewell artist Jutta Jones.

The Retreat Salon & Spa
12 West Old Street, (804) 861-8104
Continuing Exhibit: New work by new Petersburg resident Pam Roberts, who was born in NYC, but lived in Richmond for twenty years. While in Richmond, she took classes at VCU & the Virginia Museum of Arts Studio School, where she exhibits her work. She is fascinated with the figure & the depiction of isolation in a technological world, She works in oils & mixed media.

River’s Edge
20 West Old Street, (804) 722-0505
New Exhibits: “Estate Jewelry from Bev Rivers Private Collection.” Also, a rare portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, ca. 1825, after Samuel Morse. Continuing Exhibit: Paintings by award-winning Richmond artist D. Capocelli, who recently returned to Richmond after fifteen years of exhibiting art in Italy.

Office of Delegate Rosalyn Dance
28 W. Old St., (804) 862-2922
Continuing Exhibit: Work by photographer Marvin Averett.

Sycamore Rouge
21 W. Old St., (804) 957-5707, www.sycamorerouge.org
New Exhibit: Gallery: “Profit Not Prophet,” Chicago turned Richmond artist Kevin Orlosky is lighting fires beneath his collective viewers yet again in his latest acerbic commentary on the state of our nation. Delving into such hot-button issues as the Iraq war, America’s escalating consumerism, the steady erosion of civil liberties, and fear mongering, Orlosky’s observations are skillfully couched in allegory, opening a dialogue where the viewer may determine his or her own depth of reading. Set against swirling abstract backgrounds, Orlosky’s finely rendered subjects appear adrift in the inner oceans of the mind, retinal burns carefully stored for their eventual decoding. In turn poetic, shocking, and controversial, Orlosky’s unfettered creations explore the dark side of American politics, drawing intriguing parallels through his unconventional iconography and challenging each viewer with their relevance and potency.
Live music: Courtyard, 6:00-8:00 pm: UncleMo.
Main Stage, 8:00-10:00 pm: The Silverback Blues Burners, based in Richmond, and featuring David Cox on the harmonica, Jim McCauley on the guitar, Marty Scwab on base, Miles Johnston on drums, & Dick Phillips on keyboards.

Petersburg Regional Art Center
132 North Sycamore Street, (804) 733-8200, www.shockoebottomarts.com, oen Wednesday-Saturday, 10-4
Opening Reception: Juried July All-Media Show. Awards Ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Juror: Rudi Winebrenner, who teaches a watercolor workshop at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School, and also owns & operates Main Art Supply and Frame, which also includes a gallery with monthly shows. Flowers by Flowers & More. Raffle for Studio 307.
Open House studio shows by 70 artists.
Live Music: Southern Roots (Southern rock).
Opening Receptions: Mezzanine Gallery Shows: Matt Malone (oils, mixed media); Hans-Joackins Unger (oils & watercolors); Helena Agnew (mixed media); Bill Sabino (oils); Chet Naylor (oils); & Lydia DeRasmo (acrylics).

Friend House Gallery
Bollingbrook Street & Cockade Alley, (804) 931-1370, open Wednesday through Saturday, 12-5
Opening Reception: “Petersburg 11″�an exhibition of paintings by Margaret Bucheer, Diane Emory, Ellen Ende, Rod Givens, Kathryn Hedgepeth, Sheryl Jordan, Renee King, Annette Norman, Joyce Proctor, Michelle Winegardner, & Bob Zemp. Ongoing Exhibits: New work by Carol Anna Meese & potter Kathryn Hedgepeth.

Wabi-Sabi
21 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 862-1365, www.eatwabisabi.com, open for lunch, Tues.-Fri., 11:30-2:00, dinner, Tuesday-Saturday, 5:00 until …
Continuing Exhibit: Upstairs: “Koi Series” by Bobby Lynch, of Richmond & Petersburg.
New Exhibit: Tavern: TBA.
Live music by the seventeen-piece Upper East Side Big Band, which will make you put on your dance shoes & swing the night away. Under the direction of saxophonist Samson Trinh, this band, composed of the finest musicians in the Richmond area, generates a vibrant collective spirit that captures the essence of the American jazz orchestras. The repertoire features the big band sounds of Duke Ellingtom, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, & Glenn Miller. Listeners will also be blown away by the band’s vocalist & pianist, Adrian Duke, as he croons popular standards from the Frank Sinatra & Ray Charles songbooks. Don’t miss!

Therapeutic Massage Center & Boutique
27 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 722-1720, open Monday-Saturday, 10-5
Opening Reception: Jewelry by Ellen Marie Murphy, who whose love of jewelry led her to begin studying the craft while living in Wisconsin. She creates her own lampwork beads from glass rods, adding multiple colors or fine silver to the beads in their molten state, & then incorporating them into jewelry.

Rejuvenate Massage Therapy & Pilates Studio
411 Cockade Alley, (804) 861-9963, www.rejuvenateyou.net, open Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-7:30 pm, Saturday by appointment
New Exhibit: TBA.

Andrade’s International Restaurant
7 Bollingbrook Street (804) 733-1515
Continuing Exhibit: Drawings of the R/UDAT vision of downtown by Jay Womack of Illinois & Francisco Behr of California.

The Gardener’s Gate
12 Bollingbrook Street
Opening Exhibit: Work in various media, including anime, acrylics, & sketches, by Josh Kelly, a rising senior at the Appomattox Regional Governor���s School. Kelly’s plan is to pursue a degree in engineering and design automobiles.

Paper with Style
8 Bollingbrook Street, (804) 733-0383
New Exhibit: The photographic fine art of Petersburg resident Brad Hale, whose love of architecture, statuary, flowers, and nature is celebrated through his creative ability to frame an image. Brad will also be unveiling Octagon Art Cards, born of his passion for photography, and featuring color & black & white images taken in Virginia, South Carolina, & Washington, D.C.

Sol Cooper Gallery
306 North Sycamore Street, (804) 240-6859; by appointment only
New Exhibit: “Lineage: A Show of Working Relationships,” featuring work by Ron Walton, Terry Ammons, Andras Bality, Angela Orrell, Maruta Racenis, Liz McCormack, Dolly Holmes, Bobby Lynch, Mark Pehanich, Aimee Joyaux, Patrick Gregory, Tom McCormack, & Barry Roebuck. See how one thing leads to another for some of the top artists in Central Virginia. Through September 7. Don’t miss!

Java Mio Coffeehouse & Bistro
322 N. Sycamore St., (804) 861-2700, www.javamio.com, Mon.-Fri., 7-7, Sat. 8-5
New Exhibit: “Usable Art,” by multi-media artist Kymberly Keniston-Pond. Colorful, whimsical artwork will be painted on a table, chairs, lamps, and a variety of trivets.
Continuing Exhibit: “Beautifully Serendipitous”���by Keniston-Pond, who is from St. Petersburg, Fla. A published poet & author of three children’s stories, her current mixed-media paintings are bright & whimsical. She has been selected to exhibit at the 2007 Folk Art Festival at St. Petersburg.
Wine tasting begins at 5:00 pm, with Sara Guterbock from National Distributing, who has been educating us about the coolnes of wine for three years. Unfortunately, she will be moving out of state, so this will be her last wine event at the Mio.

The Oak Antique Mall
400 North Sycamore St. (804) 861-6111, Mon.-Sat., 10-5, Sun. 1-4
First Floor Gallery, Landing: New Exhibit: “Nature’s Treasures,” by Nancy Belcher. Watercolor paintings from nature, enhanced by taking watercolor courses from Faye Henderson.

The Pink Scottie
408 North Sycamore St., (804) 957-6112
Continuing Exhibit: “A Taste of the Virginia Hunt.” In photographic panels by Angela Orrell & Joanne Williams, capture the flavor of a fall morning, the inauguration of the fox-hunting season, the pleasure & sport of the hunt, by the Reedy Creek Hunt Sporting Organization of Southside Virginia.

Siege Museum
15 West Bank Street, (804) 733-2427
Opening exhibition, Petersburg’s Lowndes Stoneware. One of the earliest documented industries in Petersburg, the Lowndes pottery operated in the Blandford section of town from 1806 until 1855. The pottery primarily produced utilitarian stoneware pieces for storing and serving food. Rare examples of stoneware mainly from private collections will be on exhibit. Sneak preview, Laying the Foundation of a City: Petersburg’s History to 1815, an exhibition on Petersburg’s early history.

Bank Street Gallery
27 W. Bank St., open by appointment, (804) 733-6180
Continuing Exhibits: New work by Kirsten Kindler, who holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute but now lives in Richmond. A grant recipient from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in 2004, she works in oils & extraordinary cut-paper hangings. She will be showing a filigree influenced by a recent trip to Morocco. New oils by former Petersburger Stephen Roebuck, a graduate of U.Va. & Pratt Institute, who teaches at Christ Church School. New watercolors by Petersburg artist Catherine Warnock, who was born in Scotland & lived in California. Her influences are from travel & nature. She is currently studying with Carol Meese. New oils by Petersburg native O. Pollard, who has been painting since 1954. Don’t miss!

Purple Passion
29 W. Bank St., (804) 863-1943, open Tues.-Sat., 10-6
Continuing Exhibit: The paintings of local artist Marjorie Jackson, accompanied by her handcrafted jewelry.

Music Venues open for Friday for the Arts!, July 13, 2007
Cockade City Grill
305 N. Sycamore St., (804)862-2537
Loose Gravel (roots & classic rock), 9:00 pm-1:00 am

Dixie Diner
250 N. Sycamore St., (804) 732-7425
Michael Redman (jazz saxophone), 6-8 pm
BC & Gray (jazz & blues), 9:00 pm. to 1:30 am

Maria’s Cafe & Italian Restaurant
(804) 862-3100, 105 West Bank Street
Michael Redman (jazz saxophonist), 8:30-11:00 pm

Petersburg Regional Art Center
132 South Sycamore Street St.m (804) 733-8200
The Lost Satellites (new work; blend of indie & classic rock)

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
110 Union St., (804) 733-3415
Concerts by Candlelight: Charles Lindsay, Jr., organ, with Jarvis Wyche, baritone, presenting music by Mahler, Purcell, Handel, & others. 6:30 pm.

Sycamore Rouge
21 W. Old St., (804) 957-5707
Courtyard, 6-8 pm: Uncle Mo’
Main Stage, 8-10 pm: The Silverback Blues Burners (blues)

Tantrum Tattoo
Rear 116 West Bank Street Street, (804) 863-0200
The High Street Low Lifes (1920s-style string band)

Wabi-Sabi
21 Bollingbrook St., (804) 862-1365
Upper East Side Big Band (seventeen-piece big band), 9 pm to 12 midnight

Throughout Old Town
The mellow jazz saxophone of Rosshan Monroe.