The excuse for not updating the Synergist Media portfolio here on the interwebs for more than two years? There is no good excuse, really, but mine is just that . . . I was too busy making videos.
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This month, two of our videos and several photos and photo essays by Luke Christopher garnered honors from the Virginia Press Association for the weekly Rappahannock News.
After several years indoors and a year off due to the pandemic, 1000 Faces Mask Theater returned to the great outdoors — specifically to the grassy hill beside Pen Druid Brewing in Sperryville, Va., with the Blue Ridge Mountains as backdrop.
Conceived by Jane Bowling-Wilson, executive director of the Warrenton, Va.-based Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, who also wrote the script, this two-minute informational short features the playful illustrations of Richmond, Va. artist Lucas Wilson and a world-class narration by Tish Iceton of Toronto
The Rappahannock Center for Education sent Luke and I back to school this spring — specifically to Rappahannock County High School, to make a short documentary on what it’s been like to be in high school during the coronavirus pandemic. Particularly for the majority of Rappahannock County residents, most of whom are well beyond having kids in school, it was an eye-opening education.
As this winter of our disconcertment (don’t ask) tried to become spring earlier this month — and is still trying — our little production company somehow got two more videos out the door.
See the video on the Artists of Rappahannock Fall Art Tour — and then be there for the Tour, coming up on Nov. 3-4, 2018.
Most artists are struggling artists, one way or the other, but Kat Habib struggles mostly to find the time to be an artist. When she’s actually practicing art, hey — no problem.
The fifth video in the Artists of Rappahannock series is different from the rest — for one, it’s a profile of a musician rather than visual artist: renowned jazz pianist Bill Harris, who shares a historic home in Flint Hill with his wife, Stella Liong, Rappahannock’s only resident dentist.
For the fourth video in the Artists of Rappahannock series, Patricia Brennan of De’Danann Glassworks talks about her longtime love of the light and color that is stained glass — and how she’s managed to make a living, raise a family, learn new techniques and more during her nearly four decades as a stained glass artist in the mountains of Sperryville, Va.