Rappahannock County’s lushly forested mountains and bucolic countryside provide inspiration for the creative process. More than 50 artists, artisans and photographers live in the county and exhibit their work in the county, where more than nine art galleries in Washington, Sperryville and Flint Hill exhibit the work of local, regional and national artists. Many private studios are open by appointment and for the annual Artists of Rappahannock Studio & Gallery Tour sponsored by the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RAAC).
12018A Lee Highway Sperryville, VA 22740 (540) 773-2700
PO Box 456, 23 Spyder Mountain Lane, Sperryville Va 22740 (540) 987-8615
12018B Lee Highway, Sperryville, VA 22740 (540) 987-5078
Gay Street Gallery presents the work of select, award-winning artists from Virginia and around the country. With a focus on representational landscape and figurative paintings, the Gallery also shows sculpture and other three-dimensional art, and hosts exhibitions of contemporary work in various media. Open daily 10-5 except Tuesdays, please check our website or Facebook page for information on exhibition opening parties and gallery talks by artists.
337 Gay St., Washington VA 22747
(540) 227-5100
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341 Main St., Washington VA 22747 (540) 675-3332
PO Box 391, Washington VA, 22747 (703) 282-9135
42 Main Street Sperryville VA 22740 (540) 987-1000
Born and educated in Germany, Hans Gerhard first came to the US as an exchange student for "just one year", but returned to teach at American Universities, and has lived in the US since 1958. For many years, he considered himself a recreational painter of landscapes, and occasional carver of wooden objects, sometimes recognizable as birds,mammals,or fish. Since moving to Hughes River Farm in Rappahannock County in 1987, and encouraged by kindred spirits among the Rappahannock arts and craft community, he has turned to working with scrap iron and steel to create sometimes bizarre,usually rusty, and occasionally whimsical sculptures. In this genre he follows ideas derived from folk art and richly developed by masters of modernist art in different countries. His paintings,meanwhile, have left the realm of observed "reality" and turned emphatically abstract: creating their own reality, leaving the viewers to reach into their own imagination.
Gerhard's work was first publically shown by the late venerable Washington,D.C. Arts Dealer Franz Bader during the 1970ies, and, more recently, in Virginia galleries. His paintings and sculptures have been acquired by public and private collections in the United States and Europe.
3494 Slate Mills Road Sperryville, Va 22740
(540) 547-2447
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Hughes River Trading Co. is the studio and gallery of Sperryville printmaker and artist Margaret Rogers, whose intaglio etchings, engravings and illustrations are on display at the family coffee business, where Maggie's studio is tucked behind the roastery.
11836 Lee Hwy., Sperryville, VA 22740
(540) 987-1006
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In her studio and showroom at Juba Mountain Pottery, Susan Dienelt makes and sells elegant but still very functional stoneware pots to be used in the kitchen, at the table and around the home. Her pots are dishwasher, microwave and oven safe. They are fired in a very hot gas kiln in which salt is added toward the end of the firing. The interaction of the salt, the heat and the clay form a special patina, making certain that no two pots look exactly alike. Come see her pots and where they are made with a beautiful view of Old Rag Mountain. Check website for directions and more information.
96 Juba Mountain Lane Sperryville VA 22740
(540) 987-8041
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311 Gay Street, Washington VA 22747 (540) 675-1313
11774 Lee Hwy Sperryville VA 22740 (540) 987-8474
POB 232, 311 Gay Street Washington VA 22747 (540) 675-3625
307 Main Street Washington, VA 22747 (540) 675-1411
7 River Lane Sperryville, VA 22740 (202) 256-7005
12720 Lee Highway, Washington, VA 22747 (540) 675-1121
3 River Ln, Sperryville, VA 22740 (540) 987-9288