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The Rivanna River Environmental Art Festival 2017-2020
Organized and curated by Chroma Projects, FLOW’s collaborating partners include The Rivanna Conservation Alliance as our fiscal agent, along with the McGuffey Art Center, the Rivanna River Company, and the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center.
Each year FLOW featured many of the previous years’ visual and performing artists interpreting the river, along with a constantly changing number of new ones. Visitors to the event encountered their diverse gifts of creativity, tucked into natural wooded grottoes and overlooks along the river trail, expressing the history, ecology, beauty and spiritual traditions of the river.
Environmental organizations provided informational tables as well, so that visitors learned about the work being done on behalf of the river and other care taking efforts.
We have been pleased to have had Alex Nyerges, Director of the VMFA and his artist wife, Katherine, as well as Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Educator and curator of Virginia Statewide Partnerships and the Art Mobile as our jurors for the River Bank Plein Aire Painting Event, the Site Specific Environmental Sculpture, and the FLOWtilla Spontaneous Art Boat Parade.
Our collaborating partner was the Rivanna Conservation Alliance, and our principle sponsors included Albemarle County, The FUNd@CACF, The Prana Fund, Stony Point Design/Build, Apex Clean Energy, Flow Auto, Kevin & Holly Davis, Water Street Studio, Orzo, Roger Voisinet, Robin Hanes, Bobbi Dunn and Susan Allison.
