FOXCROFT PRESENTS “THE BLUEST OF BLUES” AT THE ARTISTS IN MIDDLEBURG GALLERY Written by Shayda Windle | Photos by Callie Broaddus
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n 2017, Julie Fisher began teaching digital arts at Foxcroft School. A passionate advocate for arts education, she started thinking of new ways for her students’ artwork to be promoted throughout the town and beyond. Fisher decided to reach out to the owner of the Artists in Middleburg Gallery (AiM), Sandy Danielson, to see if she would be interested in exhibiting student work at their Washington Street gallery. “AiM is a unique, non-profit organization dedicated to bringing together a community of artists and [supporting] arts in education,” Fisher says. “It seemed like the perfect venue to promote our girls and our wonderful arts program.” Danielson agreed and the two immediately began discussing the idea for a student exhibition. Foxcroft’s first exhibit at AiM was in 2018. Since then, the show has traditionally taken place in March during Youth Arts Month, a program that began in 1984 to emphasize the value that visual art education brings to children. In 2018 and 2019, Foxcroft photography students selected a favorite image from their body of work to display at the gallery. Each student prepared their own exhibition labels, and signed, editioned, framed, and hung their artwork in the gallery. They had the opportunity to experience the full gamut of an exhibition experience as independent artists Bluest | Page 13 Top: Julie Fisher holding “The Bluest of Blues” by Fiona Robinson. Bottom: Helen Ventikos, Julie Fisher, and Juliana Rose review cyanotype projects.
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