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Bower Center for the Arts will be hosting an opening reception December 9, 5-7pm, for Dawn Richerson’s exhibit, Blue Ridge Blessings: Epiphany & an Echoed Invitation in the Terrace Gallery. This is the culmination of her residency as recipient of the 2022 Suzie Viemeister Emerging Artist Program at Bower Center. She will be presenting a brief gallery talk at 6pm. 

Dawn is an artist who is inspired by the soul of place and the natural world. On long walks in the woods, she often documents what she sees and experiences with photography and writing. Later, she takes these field notes and explores her subject matter further, primarily through painting. 

Her paintings are both an interpretation of and an invitation to the story of life unfolding around us and within us. “It is the desire to reconnect with life and all that is alive in me that is at the core on all my expression. I hope my paintings connect those who encounter them with that sense of wonder - and even mystery.”

View Dawn's exhibit online HERE.