45th annual faculty exhibition opens at TCC’s Visual Arts Center

Tidewater Community College’s Visual Arts Center will host the 45th Annual TCC Art Faculty Exhibition from Nov. 22 until Jan. 4.

The opening reception will be Nov. 21 at 6 p.m. TCC President Edna V. Baehre-Kolovani will make remarks and announce the works selected for the Anne S. Iott Permanent Art Collection at 7 p.m. A sale of student work will take place from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. in an adjoining space.

Events are free and open to the public.

The exhibition will feature work by 37 faculty members in a variety of two- and three-dimensional media, including drawing, painting, pottery, glass, photography, computer-generated imagery and mixed. Participating full-time faculty members include Ed Francis, Rob Hawkes, Corinne Lilyard-Mitchell, Ryan Muldowney, Craig Nilsen and Tom Siegmund. Work by Christina Rupsch, director of the VAC, and Iott, founding director of the VAC, will also be part of the exhibition.

The Visual Arts Center is located at 340 High St., in Portsmouth. For information about the event, call Shelley Brooks at 757-822-1878.