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Local Art Association Presents FUMA Cadets and Teacher
Fluvanna Art Association Presents
FUMA Teacher/Student Show
Cadets in Fork Union Military Academy's Middle School might feel they know everything about each other by the time 2nd semester rolls around. After all, most of them are boarding students and spend a lot of time around each other. In the school's art studio, however, the cadets continue to discover unsuspected abilities both in themselves and others:
"Who did that?"
"Smith."
"Smith, D. or Smith, J.?"
"Dave Smith."
"Dave Smith! Who would have guessed?"
The boys' teacher, Lindsay Nolting, says the conversation above is played out, with name changes, about twice a week as students view each others work in art class. 
A lifelong painter, Ms. Nolting will exhibit her acrylic landscapes side by side with "an appealing and eclectic selection of my students' work" at the Community Center in Fork Union, March 2 through April 30, 2007. The show opens Friday, March 2 with a public reception from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The Community Center is located in the former Fork Union Elementary School, 5725 James Madison Highway. The Nolting/FUMA exhibit is part of an ongoing series organized by the Fluvanna Art Association in partnership with Fluvanna's Department of Parks and Recreation.
Fluvanna Middle School cadets have been perennial prizewinners in Old Farm Day/Heritage Trail art shows locally. Their teacher's recent credits include participation in "Particular Places", in New Haven, Connecticut, an exhibition curated by Bernard Chaet, Yale Professor Emeritus of Painting. A large Nolting landscape painted from the Columbia boat landing will tour Virginia in a group show on the theme of the James River. A drawing she made during a 2005 sojourn in southern France as a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts International Fellow is on view in the 2007 National Drawing Exhibition at the College of New Jersey. In late March Nolting will serve as juror for the 10th Annual National Show at the Montpelier Center for Arts and Education. This is the seventh year she has taught at Fork Union Military Academy Middle School.
Posted by Elizabeth Liles, Tuesday, February 20, 2007 10:21 AM
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