2024 Event Artwork Information
1. CUMULUS: WHEN DARKNESS WAKES TO RADIANCE
PERFORMANCES AT 6:30, 7:30 & 8:30PM
Performers explore ways to connect and synchronize with each other through procession, movement, and light.
2. DAVID POSNER: THE FAN
A musically interactive spectacle of dancing lights and colors.
3. STACEY EVANS: LIGHTHEARTED WHIMSY
This collection captures the transitional moments of daily and seasonal rhythms, highlighting the interplay of artificial and natural light as it shapes and transforms space.
4. ROBERTO KAMIDE: VESUVIUS
A conical structure made of wire and tissue papers
5. BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: THE OCTOPUS GARDEN & OPERATION
Boys and Girls club youth created two artworks: an illuminated coral reef made out of recycled materials and an interactive game of “Operation”. with Sigrid Eilertson & Chase Rohan
6. TOM CLARKSON & PVCC POTTERY STUDENTS: RAKU
A conical structure made of wire and tissue papers.
7. ALLI THOMPSON & DAN MAHON: FRUITING BODIES OF THE “WOOD WIDE WEB”
The Fruiting Bodies are what you see in the story above ground. The story you don’t see but can hear is an audio interpretation of the unseen chitter & chatter of the Wood Wide Web.
8. ASHTIN BOWMAN: WHERE THE LOST THINGS GO
A whimsical showing of where the lost things were taken to.
9. ELIZABETH CASSELL & RICO VIGLIOTTI: PORTAL
An illuminated doorway transporting you to different locations.
10. VMFA ON THE ROAD: LOVE, LAUGHTER, TEARS: AN ARTIST’S GUIDE TO EMOTIONS
Artworks from the VMFA collection that explore human emotion as a universal and unifying factor.
11. ROSE GUTERBOCK & PIPER GROVES: MOON HOUSE: ALTAR OF LIGHT
These tiny moon mementos are a reminder to honor your own darkness and revere your light, which waxes and wanes but always returns.
12. THE DORAN FAMILY: MOON BLOSSOM
A secret nighttime garden with large glowing moon blossoms.
13. CHRIS HASKE AND PEABODY SCHOOL: THE WILLOW OF REALMS *people's choice winner
A luminous tree with small worlds of illuminated possibility.
14. ALEXANDRIA SEARLS AND PVCC PHOTO/VIDEO STUDENTS: WELDING, SPARKS, NIGHT
Two video sequences, one by professor Alexandria Searls (3 min) and one by her
students (6 min), illuminate the beauty of welding by PVCC students.
15. JEFF DOBROW: {RELIC OF APSARA}
{Relic of Apsara} explores the hypnotic, transformative, and graceful form of the muse-like Apsaras through an ever changing tapestry of abstraction and metamorphosis.
16. PEOPLE’S CHOICE VOTING
Vote here for your favorite artwork.
2023 Event Artwork Information
1. DISCOVER BEAUTY IN UNEXPECTED PLACES
Firefly Landscape Lighting
Maple tree lighting designed to highlight the tree’s structure with low level low-voltage lighting.
2. EBB TIDE BEGINS AT NIGHTFALL
Nettle Shirts Puppet Works
Under the pier, under the stars, enter the saltwater and rocks. Various silent sea creatures will appear throughout the night. Score by Alex Christie
3. THE RADIOLARIANS
Miriam Tobias
AI-crafted visuals inspired by oceanic radiolarians and global human diversity on radiant cubes encourage us to ponder humanity’s role amidst the transformative landscape of disruptive innovation.
4. FOX AROUND AND FIND OUT
Rose Guterbock & Aaron Miller
Interactive digital fox puppet.
5. EMILY WRIGHT WITH CUMULUS DANCE
Performers explore ways to connect and synchronize with each other through movement and light.
Performances at 6:30, 7:30 & 8:30pm
6. LET THERE BE LANTERNS
PVCC Community
Collaborative installation of lamps created by members of the PVCC community.
7. FREE UNION FLOCK
Free Union Country School with Rose Guterbock
Student-made animations of cardinals projected onto a large white cardinal sculpture.
8. TINY WORLDS AND CIRCUIT BOARD CITY
Boys and Girls Clubs with Sigrid Eilertson and Chase Rohan
Small worlds created by young artists.
9. RAKU
Tom Clarkson & Nancy Ross
Small outdoor clay kiln firing.
10. DRAGONFLY
Ed Miller
Metal sculpture and shadows.
11. NO MUD, NO LOTUS
Elizabeth Cassell & Rico Vigliotti
Glowing Lotus on the Lake
12. RAIN DATE
Large Umbrella with Falling Raindrops.
13. PIPIPÍ
Joe Schepps
Portal where a sound greeting will summon the light.
14. EFFLORESCENCE
Crystals of light burst forth from the forest floor.
15. CHAOTIC INTERVENTION
Stephen Haske and Paul Norton
Mysterious figure emerges from a tangle of luminescent roots.
16. AIRING OUT THE DREAM QUILT
Lighted pavilion where folx celebrate community by adding their hopes and dreams to be included in a future installment of the dream quilt.
17. THE MUSIC MACHINE
Peabody School with Chris Haske
Interactive music creation experience with dynamic loops
of ethereal notes and colorful projected animations.
18. PAINTING WITH DANCE
Deep Water Moves Dance & Dan Pearce
Interactive space where artists, and the public, paint dynamic light images through movement.
Performances at 6:15, 7:15 & 8:00pm
19. CUBE
Local Design Collective
Mysterious large glowing LED cubes.
2022 Event Artwork Information
Deep Water Moves Dance Company with Dan Pearce
1. Celebration of Trees
4. A Midnight Picnic
7. Illusory Orrery
10. Phosphorescent Foliage: The Alien
Plant Experiment
13. River Shadows
2. Revealing and Obscuring Identity
5. Your Friend in Love
8. RAKU!!
11. Shadow Dance
14. Opinions
Circe Strauss
3. Earthen Panther
6. Trash to Treasure
9. Be a Beacon
12. Becoming: A Movement Choir
Performance from 6:30-7pm Brief performances @ 7:30 & 8pm
15. Indigo and the Milk Cap
Performances @ 6:15, 6:45,7:15, 7:45, 8:15 & 8:45pm
Nettle Shirt Puppet Works