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A Shoe of Her Own

Presented by d'Art Center at d'Art Center

March 5-April 16, 2010

As part of the state-wide observance, Minds Wide Open: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts, this center will be presenting A Shoe of Her Own.

Reminiscent of the Virginia Woolf essay espousing the need for women writers to have their own room in order to enjoy uninterrupted writing time, the d'ART Center' exhibition invites visual artists to present artwork which is biographical and/or autobiographical using the shoe as a symbol that provides women the,...More

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