Bower Center and Cornerstone Gallery will be open Sunday, June 8, 1-5pm - D-Day Anniversary Weekend

In additional to the usual Tues-Sat 11am-4pm hours, Cornerstone Gallery will be open Sunday, June 8, 1pm-5. 

There will be lots going on in Bedford over the 70th Anniversary of D-Day weekend in town and we want people to be able to visit Cornerstone in addition to seeing the special exhibit, "The World at War: at Home & Abroad," in the Performance Hall Gallery and main lobby. There will be other art works that are a part of this exhibit at Goose Creek Studio and Framing Gallery, 320 Court St and The Bedford Welcome Center, at Rtes 460 & 122. Also, there will be an exhibit of art quilts by Kay Williams in the Terrace Gallery at Bower Center. These exhibits open Tuesday, May 27. 

Black & Red FANtasy has been added to Cornerstone

Black & Red FANtasy by Dotti Stone

Dotti's Black & Red FANtasy, just back from being exhibited at TECAC - The Electric Company Artists' Co-op in Bedford, is now in Cornerstone Gallery at Bower Center.

This is another mosaic in an East Asian theme. 

Come by and see this and many other beautiful art works ion Second Friday. Bonnie, Sally, Gene and Sergei and continually adding new art works as other pieces find new homes!

Cornerstone Gallery members in Bower's Botanical II exhibit

Desert Rose by Bonnie Kinnaird

Bower Center's Botanical II exhibit has just been installed and three of the Cornerstone Gallery members have work included:

Red Mystical Flower by Sergei Troubetzkoy

Oriental Garden by Dotti Stone

The exhibit will be up through May 3

Join the reception on Second Friday,April 11, 5pm-8
Awards will be presented at 6 pm.
The Judge: Beverly Rhoads, Artist and an Associate Professor at Lynchburg College.

Floral designers will be visiting the exhibit and invited to create floral arrangements to complement whatever art work inspires them. Entry information is available on Bower's website:
www.bowercenter.org. Go to exhibits and click on Calls to Artists and download the Botanical II Call for Artists.

There will be a reception to recognize the floral designers who participate on May 2, 2pm-4 at Bower Center.

More sales at Cornerstone - Bonnie this time!

What cool things does Bonnie have in Cornerstone Gallery???

How about belt buckles? This photograph with the guitar is a belt buckle ... and there are straps available, too. Perfect for the musician or music lover in the family.

There are mosaic pendants, concrete leaf castings and mosaic fine art panels.

10% off now through December 21st!

Open 11am-4pm, Tues-Sat in
Bower Center for the Arts
305 N Bridge St
Downtown Bedford VA!!!

Visit the art exhibits while you are in Bower Center.

Sales at Cornerstone Gallery

10% off now through December 21st

Mosaics by Sergei Troubetzkoy

Dotti Stone's bottle stoppers

New items for the holidays

Sally's French butter keeper

Need ideas for holiday gifts?

Want something a little different?

Bonnie's belt buckles

How about a French butter keeper made by Sally Carter - no more waiting for butter to soften when you use one of the little beauties! or get one of her yarn bowls for your friend who knits. Her husband Gene has started making individual apple baking dishes along with vases and decorative bowls. 

Bonnie Kinnaird has been busy creating one of a kind belt buckles (straps are also available) and pendants.

Gene's individual
apple baking dish

Dotti has 
wine bottle stoppers - great for collections or to have a decorative stopper during a party.

Dotti's wine bottle stoppers

And what has Sergei been up to? Well .. he continues to come up with creative eggs ... did you see some of of his Halloween collection? ...
and he is now getting Christmasy colored eggs ready to display.

"Bizarre Bertha" with
3 of Sergei's
Halloween eggs

New Mosaics by Dotti Stone added

 Behind the Keyboard Mask

Already there are new items posted in Cornerstone Gallery. Dotti Stone's Azalea Bonsai was created recently for the Look to the East exhibit at Bower Center and "Behind the Keyboard Mask" was in the Black and White theme exhibit last year.

Azalea Bonsai 

Also added is "Tidal Wave," an abstract mirror design that may be used as an accent piece or put in a foyer for that quick last peek before heading out the door. Chunks of peacock ore, glitter and metallic glass tiles are some of the materials included.

Garden Pals

Tidal Wave

   















And finally, a fun piece, "Garden Pals," friends comparing their flip flops, edged with Murano millefiori and topped with vintage flowers.

Mosaic wine bottle stoppers will be coming soon. They are perfect gift items for the person who collects stoppers or for anyone wanting something different to use after opening a bottle of wine.