I've been coming down to Virginia for approximately 15 years, since we have family in Newport News and often meet up in the Virginia Beach/Sandbridge area for summer family reunions. Since the launch of The Arts Adventurer is only a month old, it gave me an additional purpose to go in search of some arts adventures on this year's trip.
Newport News, which is located in the Hampton Roads area, is part of Warrick County, which was part of the original Virginia Colony set up by England in 1634. ... read full story
Posted on: July 8, 2012, by The Arts Adventurer 2 Comments
As I detailed in the last post about the Newport News shipyards, we're in Virginia for a vacation week at the beach in Sandbridge, VA. My in-laws have rented a house right across the street from the beach, with a magnificent - and unobstructed - view of the Atlantic Ocean, as you can see pictured below.
I've been pondering where I'm going to find an arts adventure around here, but an unexpected greeting from the home owner as we pull in to the driveway gives me my first clue. He sees all 
As I noted in the last chapter, our Sandbridge Virginia rental beach house had a huge mermaid sculpture out front, and a house filled with countless other mermaids. But our house wasn't the only one with a front yard sculpture. Plenty of other homes had front yard sculptures, and the range of subjects was pretty impressive. As you'll see in the slideshow below, the roster of front yard sculptures includes sailor figures, a 7 foot tall tiki figure, a mini version of the Statue of Liberty, a 
I've been to Virginia Beach before, several times in fact. But I guess I had never explored the area with a focus of looking for art. What you see below is what Virginia Beach means to most people: a big, expansive beach, a boardwalk, big hotels and lots of people. I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a bit of art, once I started looking for it.
Matter of fact, one of the first things I saw as I drove in from the south side on General Booth Boulevard (where it turns into Pacific 
As we saw in our last Virginia Beach post, there are a lot of great murals throughout the Virginia Beach area. But most of them seem to be sanctioned murals - which is all good - but it made me wonder if the more-clandestine street artists had simply avoided Virginia Beach? While I wasn't seeing much of what one would consider regular graffiti, the sticker art graffiti artists have definitely made their presence felt. Below is a selection of some of the sticker art graffiti that I saw ... look