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Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release
Media Contact:
Betsy Arnett, Public Information Officer
barnett@leesburgva.gov 703-771-2734
Exhibit of Portraits by Artist Nahid Neff Opens at Leesburg
Town Hall on September 1, 2016
Artist’s opening reception on Friday, September 2, 2016, from 6pm to 9pm.
Leesburg, VA (August 19, 2016) – A selection of
portraits in oils and pastels by Virginia artist Nahid
Neff will be on display at the Leesburg Town Hall
from September 1 through November 30, 2016. The
theme of the exhibit is “An Exhibit of Personalities,
From Childhood’s Innocence to Adulthood’s
Maturity.”
Highlighting the exhibit are portraits of two former
first ladies of Virginia, Roxane Gilmore and Jeannie
Baliles. Ms. Neff was one of five female artists
selected in 2010 to paint portraits of the ten living
first ladies of Virginia, an initiative of then-first lady
Maureen McDonnell to promote women in the arts.
The ten portraits, mostly painted from photographs taken on the days their husbands were
inaugurated, were unveiled at the Virginia Governor’s Mansion in September 2012. Since then,
the portraits have been displayed at the Valentine Museum and the Library of Virginia, both in
Richmond.
An adherent to the Realism school of art, Ms. Neff studied at James Madison University, Temple
University School of Art and Mary Baldwin University. Her studio is located in Staunton,
Virginia. For more information, visit www.nahidneff.com.
The Leesburg Town Exhibit Hall features rotating exhibits by Leesburg and Loudoun artists.
Artists interested having their work considered for a future exhibit in the Leesburg Town Exhibit
Hall should contact Anne Geiger, staff liaison to the Commission o n Public Art, at
ageiger@leesburgva.gov.
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