Bunch wins regional arts award
Linda Bunch, executive director of the Suffolk Art League, shows off her Alli.
Linda Bunch, executive director of the Suffolk Art League, shows off her Alli, the award she won from the Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads for her contributions to the arts in Suffolk and throughout Hampton Roads.
Art Gallery. Local artists conducted make-and-take craft workshops that connected to Fahrenheit 451.
7 Cities, 1 Book is making plans for a similar program next year, using a book written by a Hampton Roads author, Bunch said. She declined to name the author until the deal is finalized. But the program was so popular that it has outgrown seven cities; York and Gloucester counties have signed on to participate next year, and Williamsburg is considering it.
The adult book will come with a companion book for children, she said.
The art world learned the benefits of regionalism long ago, Bunch said.
“We understand that joint efforts are more effective with limited resources,” Bunch said. “We (the art community) try to speak with one voice. We get more done by pooling resources than through a lot of small efforts.”
Bunch is also in the process of organizing “Handle With Care,” the art league’s juried exhibition expressing the balance between man and nature, for April 2016. She and the SAL’s board of directors are hopeful the regional exposure through Fahrenheit 451 will ultimately bring more artists to other juried exhibitions in Suffolk.
Although administrative work and other people’s art fill her time, Bunch makes sure she has at least a couple of days of studio time weekly to pursue her love of working with clay. She exhibits and sells at two shows a year — Williamsburg in spring, Waynesboro in the fall — and has works for sale at the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, Riddick’s Folly and Plum Crazy.
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December 17, 2015