40th APPALACHIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE: PUBLIC EVENTS, March 9-12, 2017

Montgomery County will be filled with free and engaging events celebrating Appalachia’s cultures and traditions in conjunction with the Appalachian Studies Association Conference organized under the theme of “Extreme Appalachia!”. Foregrounded in the fiber exhibits are local crafts persons and artists.

The Fiber Arts exhibits feature textile art, ranging from quilts to installations to silk paintings, celebrating the work of textile artists and award-winning quilters from across the New River Valley and surrounding areas.

The Beyond Coal Photography Exhibits feature the work of three photographers, Roger May, Romanian Gabriel Amza and Austin Irving, who capture the changing relationship between the region and its people. The photography exhibits will be on display beginning Monday, February 27, and will be open through the end of the conference on Sunday, March 12.

The Extreme Appalachia! Documentary Film Series will take place at the Lyric Theater and explore Appalachia’s altered landscape and the effects its had on its residents.

The #HandsOn exhibits focus on a wide range of traditions, including chairmaking, beekeeping, quilting, wood turning, tattooing, ceramic making, crocheting, homebrewing and poultry butchering.

Conference registration is not required; all are welcome!

Exhibit credit, from left to right: Fiber Arts Exhibit: The Textile Artists of Virginia presents TRANS+, Beyond Coal Photography Exhibit: Gabiel Amza, Fiber Arts Exhibit: The Textile Artists of Virginia presents TRANS+, Beyond Coal Photography Exhibit: Austin Irving and Beyond Coal Photography Exhibit: Gabriel Amza.

Thursday, March 9 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Fiber Arts Exhibit: A Sampler of Quilts in the New River Valley

Community Arts Information Office, downtown Blacksburg 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM Fiber Arts Exhibit: The Textile Artists of Virginia presents TRANS+

Montgomery-Floyd Regional Libraries Blacksburg Branch, downtown Blacksburg 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM The Fiber Artists @ Loose Ends presents Wind Chimes: Elements and Seasons

Alexander Black House & Cultural Center, downtown Blacksburg

10:30 AM to 4:30 PM Fiber Arts Exhibit: Beautifully Useful: Traditional Appalachian Overshot Coverlets The Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, Christiansburg

2:00 PM to 5:30 PM #HandsOn: Skill and Creativity in Southwest Virginia Exhibit 2nd Floor Hallway, Squires Student Center, Virginia Tech campus

Friday, March 10 8:00 AM to 5:15 PM #HandsOn: Skill and Creativity and Southwest Virginia

2nd Floor Hallway, Squires Student Center, Virginia Tech campus 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Fiber Arts Exhibit: A Sampler of Quilts in the New River Valley

Community Arts Information Office, downtown Blacksburg 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM The Fiber Artists @ Loose Ends presents Wind Chimes: Elements and Seasons

Alexander Black House & Cultural Center, downtown Blacksburg

10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Fiber Arts Exhibit: The Textile Artists of Virginia presents TRANS + Montgomery-Floyd Regional Libraries Blacksburg Branch, downtown Blacksburg

10:30 AM to 11:45 AM

EXtreme Appalachia! Documentary Film Series: Overburden (2015) The Lyric Theater, downtown Blacksburg

10:30 AM to 4:30 PM Fiber Arts Exhibit: Beautifully Useful: Traditional Appalachian Overshot Coverlets The Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, Christiansburg

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Beyond Coal Photography Exhibit Opening Reception The Armory, downtown Blacksburg

12:00 PM to 4:00 PM Beyond Coal Photography Exhibits The Armory, downtown Blacksburg

1:00 PM to 2:15 PM EXtreme Appalachia! Documentary Film Series: Up the Ridge (2006) The Lyric Theater, downtown Blacksburg

2:30 PM to 3:45 PM EXtreme Appalachia! Documentary Film Series: After Coal (2015) The Lyric Theater, downtown Blacksburg

Saturday, March 11 9:00 AM to 6:45 PM #HandsOn: Skill and Creativity in Southwest Virginia

2nd Floor Hallway, Squires Student Center, Virginia Tech campus

10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Beyond Coal Photography Exhibits The Armory, downtown Blacksburg

10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Fiber Arts Exhibit: A Sampler of Quilts in the New River Valley Community Arts Information, downtown Blacksburg The Fiber Artists @ Loose Ends present Wind Chimes: Elements and Seasons Alexander Black House & Cultural Center, downtown Blacksburg

10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Fiber Arts Exhibit: The Textile Artists of Virginia presents TRANS + Montgomery-Floyd Regional Libraries Blacksburg Branch, downtown Blacksburg

10:30 AM to 4:30 PM Fiber Arts Exhibit: Beautifully Useful: Traditional Appalachian Overshot Coverlets The Montgomery Museum & Lewis Miller Regional Art Center, Christiansburg

12:45 PM to 2:00 PM The Significance of the Fiber Arts, a discussion with Kathleen Curtis Wilson Community Arts Information Office, downtown Blacksburg EXtreme Appalachia! Documentary Film Series: Appalachian Media Institute Youth Documentaries on Desired Futures of Their Home Communities The Lyric Theater, downtown Blacksburg

2:15 PM to 3:30 PM EXtreme Appalachia! Documentary Film Series: Rothstein’s First Assignment (2011) The Lyric Theater, downtown Blacksburg

4:00 PM to 5:15 PM EXtreme Appalachia! Documentary Film Series: Good-bye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story (2015) The Lyric Theater, downtown Blacksburg

5:30 PM to 6:45 PM EXtreme Appalachia! Documentary Film Series: Resistance in the Valley (2016) Squires Student Center, Virginia Tech campus

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM Higher Ground: Like is Like a Vapor Street and Davis Performance Hall, Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre, Virginia Tech campus

Sunday, March 12 8:30 AM to 11:30 PM #HandsOn: Skill and Creativity in Southwest Virginia

2nd Floor Hallway, Squires Student Center, Virginia Tech campus