Weizenblatt
Gallery, in the Moore Building of Mars Hill University, is currently hosting an
exhibition by local artist Skip Rohde, titled "Faces of Afghanistan."
The exhibition will run through December 11. The gallery is open Monday -
Friday, 10 - 4.
Skip Rohde was an
officer in the Navy for over 22 years before becoming a full-time artist.
His paintings have won recognition and awards in solo, juried, and curated
exhibitions across the eastern half of the country. In addition, he was
the courtroom artist for WLOS-TV and served as the first President of the River
District Artists for three years.
Rohde served as a
civilian program manager in Iraq for 18 months and created a number of
paintings about the experience. Later, he was a governance advisor with
the State Department in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, for a year. His
“Faces of Afghanistan” drawings, a collection of 50 small-scale sketches done
mostly from life, have been exhibited in six colleges and universities.
Rohde currently
works out of a studio in Woodfin, NC.
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