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Start Your holiday Season With Some Old-fashioned Fun at the 15th Annual Arts & Antiques Open House in Olde Towne Portsmouth!


Friday, November 19, 2010
5 p.m. til 10 p.m.

Kick the holiday season off in style and support your local small businesses. Skipjack will be serving refreshments and hosting three or our favorites...back by popular demand!

"From Rockland to Hampton Roads" 
featuring original coastal watercolor paintings by Virginia artist Shirley Cook. 
"Eddies" watercolor by Virginia artist Shirley Cook.
Schrimshander Anthony Perry will be demonstrating
his delicate art form during 
First Friday at Skipjack

Schrimshawed antique whales tooth by Anthony Perry

"Unforeseen Circumstances": A Novel by Debbiann Holmes



MEET THE ARTIST
Book signing with Portsmouth Novelist Debbiann Holmes
during First Friday at Skipjack

Finalist in the USA book awards for 2010 best book of the year in romance fiction!

ALSO
 Riverview Gallery will be featuring the Norman Goodwin Art Show and ceramic sculpture show by students of B. Kobylinska. 
 
Skipjack Nautical Wares & Marine Gallery & Riverview Gallery will be open together for this event. Come and meander through both galleries during Olde Towne's Arts and Antiques Open House!
Light refreshments served. 
And elsewhere on High Street: 
 
Visit Winter Wonderland: The Coleman Collection at Courthouse Galleries
 
Enjoy the 41st Annual Art Faculty Exhibition at the Visual Arts Center
 
History comes alive when you bump into our own Colonel Crawford
 
View antique cars and motorcycles parked along High Street
 
Start at the welcome table (free high chocolate!) at High Street Landing!


Located at One High Street on the riverfront in historic Seaboard Railroad Terminal, Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia.  For additional information, call Skipjack at 757-399-5012 and Riverview Gallery at 757-397-3207.


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