Hampton Arts League 2025 Member Exhibition Winners

Gaymaker, Once There Was An Acorn.jpg The Hampton Arts League 2025 Member Exhibition opened Saturday, February 1 & featured the talented and unique artists of the Charles H. Taylor Visual Arts Center’s member organization. Both emerging and established artists working in a wide range of media are represented.

HAL 25 Juror.jpg This year’s Judge was Janice Hathaway. Janice Hathaway began her work in the 1970s as a stone lithographer and photographer and has evolved those traditional techniques into a fully digital approach she calls transmorgraphy. Janice started working as an established surrealist in the late 1970s when she became a member of the Alabama surrealist group Glass Veal. She lives in Williamsburg and is currently a member of the Alabama surrealist group Fresh Dirt.

Hathaway had a solo exhibition Liquid Solaris in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in 2016, is a key figure in the upcoming publication Pataphysics and Surrealism in Alabama, Steven Harris, University of Alabama Press; Icepick to the Moon, a fi lm about Raudelunas released in 2018. In 2020 she had a solo exhibition, Transmorgraphy, at the Linda Matney Gallery. In 2020, Janice Hathaway Surrealists Works was part of an exhibition Masters of Surrealism: Picasso, Dalí and Miró; at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center PFAC in Newport News, Virginia.

In 2024, Hathaway participated in three international exhibitions: Echoes of Contemporary Surrealism Alabama which she organized and co-hosted, Echoes of Contemporary Surrealism Saint-Cirq Lapopie at the André Breton Maison in France and was invited by the Paris Surrealist Group to participate in the second exhibition, Marvelous Utopia, at the André Breton Maison.

Janice Hathaway taught art and design for over 40 years before retiring in 2022 as a Professor of Art from Virginia Peninsular Community College – formerly Thomas Nelson Community College. Prior to moving to Virginia, Hathaway taught at Kapiolani Community College, the University of Hawaii, East Tennessee State University and Mississippi University of Women.

Hampton Arts League 2025 Member Exhibition Winners

1^st Place: Janice Gay Maker, There was once an acorn (top)

2^nd Place: Judith Saunders, Edgy