Atelier Circulaire Exhibit Coming to Randolph-Macon College

Ashland, VA – Members of the Montreal-based printmaking collective Atelier Circulaire will exhibit their latest work at Randolph-Macon College’s Flippo Gallery in Pace Armistead Hall, located at 211 North Center St., from Sept. 11 through Nov. 13, 2005. There will be an opening reception in honor of the collective from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 11. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, weekends by appointment. For additional information, please call 752 – 3018.
Founded in 1982, Atelier Circulaire is an artist-run center whose mandate is to encourage artistic research, production and the diffusion of printmaking. The center has facilities to accommodate etching, lithography, relief and digital printmaking processes. This exhibition is second in an exchange of works on paper between the Richmond, Va.-based printmaking collective ONE/OFF and Atelier Circulaire.
This art exhibit is one of the many programs provided in the rich lineup of the 2005-06 Randolph-Macon Cultural Arts & Entertainment Series. For more information on the series, please contact Holly Clark at hclark@rmc.edu or at 804-752-3712.

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Founded in 1830, Randolph-Macon College is celebrating its 175th anniversary of providing excellence in undergraduate education. Located in historic Ashland just north of Richmond, Randolph-Macon College is a nationally ranked co-educational, liberal arts and sciences college with a mission of “developing the minds and character of its students.” The college achieves this mission through a combination of personal interaction and academic rigor. The student-faculty ratio is 11:1 and the average class size is 16 students. Enrollment is kept at approximately 1,150 to maintain this intimate atmosphere. Randolph-Macon College has an outstanding national reputation for its internships, science programs, study abroad and undergraduate research opportunities and offers a wealth of social and athletic programs to its students. Randolph-Macon College is the oldest United Methodist Church affiliated college in the nation, a Phi Beta Kappa college and is ranked as a Baccalaureate I college by the Carnegie Foundation and among the top 100 colleges in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.