Come celebrate Adams County’s great old barns and the artists who have captured them in painting and photography! See more than 100 works of art by 50 artists at Historic Gettysburg Adams County’s 17th annual BarnArt Show & Sale.
The three-day show will be held at the G.A.R. Hall on 53 East Middle Street in Gettysburg, and is free and open to the public. Every artwork in the exhibit depicts a barn or a detail of a barn. Proceeds from the BarnArt Show sales benefit HGAC’s Barn Preservation Project and Grant Program, which funds grants to Adams County barn owners to make needed repairs.
The Opening Night reception will be held on Friday, June 13, from 6 to 8 p.m. Awards are announced at 7:30 p.m. Join us as we raise our glasses for the familiar toast, “For the Barns!” The BarnArt Show continues on Saturday, June 14, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. and again on Sunday, June 15, from noon until 4 p.m.
The BarnArt judge this year is artist Wendy Allen, owner of the Lincoln Into Art gallery in Gettysburg and president of the Lincoln Fellowship. Her work has been featured at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., alongside Lincoln portraits by Salvador Dali, Robert Rauschenberg, and Norman Rockwell. Her work has been exhibited at the Pensacola Museum of Art in Pensacola, Florida, the Washington County Museum of Fine Art in Maryland, the Katonah Museum of Art in New York, and the Lowes Statehouse in Annapolis, Maryland.
Allen is also the founder and presenter of the Lincoln Fellowship’s One Hundred Nights of Taps, Gettysburg program, and also serves on the Board of Advisors for The Lincoln Forum.
Allen will pick the first and second place winners fin the categories of fine art and for photography. In addition, Opening Night attendees will be able to cast their own votes for the “People’s Choice Award,” and participating artists will vote for the “Artists’ Choice Award.”
Over the three days of the show, HGAC will hold a raffle for a painting donated by Long Island artist Dan Christoffel. The painting is a sketch of President Abraham Lincoln, entitled “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.” Christoffel is a painter, sculptor and professor of fine arts at Long Island University, and also is a visiting lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His presidential portraits and sculptures include Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Barack Obama.
Raffle tickets for the Lincoln sketch will be sold for $20 during the three days of show, with the proceeds benefitting the HGAC Barn Preservation Project. The drawing will be at the end of the show on Sunday, June 15.
Hope to see you at the show!