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The Tour - Virginia’s Piedmont:
Through the Artist’s Eye
November 9 - 14, 2008
Whether you love classic sculpture or the blues, vivid
watercolors or Irish tunes, timeless oil paintings or
spectacular scenery, this tour has it all and more.
Virginia’s Piedmont: Through the Artist’s Eye brings
you home to the landscape of our founding fathers and to the
regions’ most promising artists and galleries, providing you
with the unique opportunity to meet artists (culinary and
otherwise), authors and musicians and to share in their
celebration of the heritage and outstanding natural beauty
for which the Virginia Piedmont is known.
Working with the historic
Inns at Montpelier and our area’s award-winning chefs
and vineyards, we are able to offer luxurious, historic
accommodation and exquisite local dining. Add to that the
talents and skills of the region’s premier artists and
performers, and we’ve prepared for you a unique, memorable
and artfully rendered experience.
The Tour Package includes the menu of events described
below. A detailed agenda and maps will be provided to all
tour registrants. A guide/interpreter will be available
throughout the tour at the events and via cell phone for
questions and help with self-scheduled side-trips. See
Extras below for information on guided
tours in addition to those offered below. Accommodations and
transportation is not included.
Sunday, November 9
 Check-in at the participating Inn at Montpelier with which
you are pre-registered.
Once settled, it’s off to Main Street Orange for an
afternoon of gallery receptions and artists’ talks at
The Arts Center In Orange and
The Ed
Jaffe Gallery. A guide/interpreter will be available to
introduce you to the town.
Finish the day with a private, get-acquainted five-course
wine pairing dinner provided by Main Street neighbors
Higginbotham Beef & Bottle Shop and
Beggars’ Banquet Catering, presented in the historic
Beggars’ Banquet Loft. Traditional Irish music provided by
Cocklebur. |
Monday, November 10
 Arise and explore at your
leisure. Spend the afternoon at
Nichols Galleries in Barboursville. Director Beth
Nichols will be serving homemade soup and bread in the Annex
Gallery, featuring Scenes of the Piedmont, an exhibit by
established Virginia artists. After lunch, internationally
acclaimed landscape artist Frederick Nichols, will be giving
tours of his painting studio and printmaking workshop.
Coffee and dessert will be served in the studio gallery.
Travel back in time for a period dinner at
Mayhurst Inn, prepared by award winning chef Paul Diegl,
and served in the same dining room that hosted Robert E.
Lee, Stonewall Jackson and A.P. Hill during Virginia’s
Troubled Times. Period libation will be offered as well. |
Tuesday, November 11
 An insider/artist tour of
James Madison’s Montpelier with Dr. Matt Reeves,
Montpelier’s Senior Archeologist and
Linda Boudreaux
Montgomery. A reception and refreshments will follow at the
Corner House Gallery with a special exhibit of the
Montpelier archeological interpretive paintings produced by
Ms. Montgomery.
End a memorable day with a four-course dinner and wine
pairing, provided by Executive Chef Randy Cooper at his
Elmwood at Sparks Restaurant, in the historic Sparks
Building on Main Street, Orange. |
Wednesday, November 12
 The adventurous are invited
to put on their hiking boots, grab their cameras, and join
Sporting Life photographers Phil and Susie Audibert and
the historic and exclusive 110 year-old Keswick Hunt for
lessons in the history and etiquette of fox hunting. You
will be rewarded at the end of this 4-hour experience with a
locally-grown, totally organic tail-gate to share with the
hunt prepared by
The Depot at Retreat Farm. (Maximum - 20, so sign-up
early).
The afternoon offers a tour of the impressive Walker Fine
Arts Center at
Woodberry Forest School, one of our nation’s most
prestigious preparatory schools. You will be treated to an
exciting exhibit of photography and abstract, impressionist
and outsider art.
Gather for the evening at the historic
Inn at
Meander Plantation for a fireside artist’s demonstration
followed by a perfectly Virginia wine-paired five-course
dinner by the Inn’s award winning chef. Jazz and Blues
provided by the
Haywood Giles Quartet. |
Thursday, November 13
 Brunch at the ca. 1830
Holladay House with
Frank Walker, tour guide, historian and author of
Remembering: A History of Orange County, Virginia.
Travel to Gordonsville’s
Exchange Hotel Civil War Museum for a private afternoon
tour, and finish at the critically acclaimed Le Pomme for a
dinner of classic French cuisine prepared by chef Gerard
Gasparini. (Read
a review in Style Weekly) |
Friday, November 14
 Aspiring writers, join
award winning
White Lies author, Sally Honenberger for a morning
fireside writer’s workshop and coffee at the
Inn at Westwood. Learn how to sort out photos and
memories to write a memoir expressing the beauty, art, and
memories of your week in Virginia’s Piedmont! Pens, photo
mounting materials and leather-bound journals provided.
The tour finishes with a four-course lunch at Palladio
Restaurant at the historic
Barboursville Vineyard followed by an optional private
tour and tasting. |
Participating Galleries include:
To Register for the Tour
Contact your choice of any of the participating Inns at
Montpelier to register for the tour package, and reserve
accommodations.
Tour Price
$745, includes all gallery tours and receptions, the tour of
Montpelier and the
Exchange Hotel, all dinners and lunch on
November 14th.
Extras
Keswick Hunt Hill-Top & Tailgate - $35
Leather Bound Journal and Writers Workshop - $25
Barboursville Wine Tasting and Tour - $12
Tour
Guide Ltd - learn more about guided tours.
Tour Registration Confirmations
Tour Registration confirmations are mailed weekly. If you do
not receive a tour registration confirmation within 10
business days after you register, please contact
artcenter@nexet.net.
Tour Cancellation Policy
Refunds, less a $100 handling fee, will be made for
cancellations received in writing by Wednesday, October 8,
2008. No cancellation refund is available after October 8.
Please mail your cancellation request to The Arts Center In
Orange, P.O. Box 13, Orange, VA 22960.
The Arts Center In Orange is a non-profit 501(c)(3)
community arts center founded in 1997 and is not responsible
for any loss or injury incurred before, during or after the
tour.
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