Image: Love Rocks by Beth Millbourn
If you like your Valentine’s Day packed with candy hearts, red roses and rom-coms, have at it and good luck to you. If you prefer your Valentines with a vein of satire and sarcasm, then wander over to Yavapai College’s Prescott Library, where the Prescott Campus Art Gallery’s Lo! Another Bloody Valentines exhibit greets the holiday in full eyeroll, February 1 to March 1.
Conceived as a counterpoint to the Hallmark sweetness of traditional Valentine’s celebrations, Lo! Another Bloody Valentines takes a broader look at America’s mushiest holiday. The exhibit’s contrarian takes on Valentines Day can be seen in twenty separate works – paintings, photographs, ceramics, videos and drawings – all centered on the theme of “Bloody” Valentines Day.
Bloodied Heart by Finn Gardener
Lo! Another Bloody Valentines will also be featured in the Prescott Gallery’s “Free Family Art Day.” The event begins Saturday, February 10, at the Prescott Gallery, with a scavenger hunt in-and-around the Staff Art Showcase at 12:30 p.m. The scavenger hunt then continues at the Library, around Lo! Another Bloody Valentines, and then the Prescott Art Docents will lead kids in an art project, making “Artist Trading Cards,” until 3 p.m. Snacks will be served, and admission is free.
Lo! Another Bloody Valentines will be on display across the Prescott Campus’s Boyd Tenney Library stacks, February 1 through March 1. The Library is free and open Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Fridays, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.; and Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. Lo! Another Bloody Valentines will be the final exhibition of the Gallery’s Library Series before the Boyd Tenney Library closes for renovations.
The Yavapai College Prescott Art Gallery is in the Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center at 1100 E. Sheldon Street, on the Yavapai College Prescott Campus. Admission is free.
For more information on Free Family Art Day, please contact Carole Mastio at: (928) 458-6875.
For Prescott Campus Gallery exhibit schedules or more information, please call: (928) 776.2031 or visit: www.yc.visualarts.com.
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