Clark returned to Virginia and taught classes in illustration at the Art Club of Richmond and was an instructor at the Richmond Training School for Kindergartners. About 1916 she and the Richmond artist Nora Houston established the Atelier. Their studio became a training ground for a generation of Virginia artists, including Theresa Pollak, who later founded the art program at the University of Richmond and the art school at Virginia Commonwealth University. Intending to revive the long-moribund eighteenth-century Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts, Clark and Houston in 1919 founded the Virginia League of Fine Arts and Handicrafts, which later merged with the Atelier and became part of the Richmond Academy of Arts. A painter primarily of portraits, landscapes, and religious scenes, Clark exhibited canvases at the Carnegie Institute, in Pittsburgh, and at Richmond’s Valentine Museum. Her oil painting
ROCKFORD Dan Nicholas is being remembered by family and friends for his passion for flowers and exotic plants and for his vision of beautifying the community where he was born and raised.
He was a devoted husband and father, a U.S. Army veteran, a successful financial services executive and a political advisor.
Nicholas, who along with brothers Ab and Bill, donated funds to build the Nicholas Conservatory, died Monday at age 93.
“They grew up as boys walking across the river on the ice and skating on the old lagoon,” Nicholas’ oldest child, Scott, said of his father and uncles. “They thought the conservatory would be a great memorial to our grandparents, William and Ruby. It was an extension of what mom and dad loved with their gardening.”
I support the NAACP lawsuit to remove the Confederate statue.
My great-grandfather, Robert Haywood Lewis (Stoneville, N.C.), enlisted as a corporal in the Confederate army at age 22. Later promoted to sergeant, he was shot through the hand at Gettysburg and hospitalized to clean the infection. When he was able, he returned to the conflict. On his 25th birthday, he was captured at Petersburg and held in the Union POW camp at Port Lookout, Md., until the war’s end. At that time, according to family records, “He took an oath of allegiance to the United States,” restoring his citizenship, and returned to Stoneville to rebuild his life.
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Piping up: IC Fine Arts Series explores organ s roots, inner workings
Angela Bauer, abauer@myjournalcourier.com
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Organist Homer Ferguson will offer a video program Friday as part of the Illinois College Fine Arts Series.Provided
A five-part video series exploring the inner workings of the organ at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Southern Pines, North Carolina, was the inspiration for Illinois College graduate Homer Ferguson’s virtual performance Friday as part of the Illinois College Fine Arts Series.
“When I was invited last spring to come be part of the series, part of it was just a return to campus,” Ferguson said. “Part of it was to be with my mentors, (Rudolph) Zuiderveld and Garrett Allman.”