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Feature article
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Virginia Intermont to host culture-defining photography
By staff report
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Virginia Intermont College hosts Melissa K. Stallard's "Worth the Trip" photography series, Friday, Oct. 9 through Wednesday, Nov. 4. The exhibit will be in the photography gallery of the Anne R. Worrell Fine Arts Center, located on campus on Moore Street, and is open for public viewing weekdays from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
In the photographs, grandiose monuments and picturesque landscapes yield to culture-defining ordinary objects and subjects.
"Emphasizing the objects that may remain unseen or may not be considered beautiful questions the very nature of beauty," Stallard says. "Many of the photographs carry a sense of melancholy that speak of failed expectations of the American dream never brought to fruition because of urban and suburban expansion and the interstate system. The intention is to help bring focus to these places from the larger, collective, social radar and give the viewer the opportunity to discover the beauty in the mundane."
A former photography student at Virginia Intermont, Stallard received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from East Tennessee State University, and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia College in Chicago. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio, and was honored as a Best of Show photographer at a show juried by Christopher Rauschenberg of Blue Sky Gallery. Her work previously won awards at the Virginia Highlands Festival annual photography exhibitions, including First Place in 2000 and Best of Show in 2002.
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