Our Featured Artist

Jean Harrison

Artistic Horizons

For the second year, Blue Skies Gallery is offering Artistic Horizons Summer Internship Program
to High School rising Juniors and graduating Senior students who are talented in the visual arts. Click here for more details.

Promoting Gifted Youth Through the Visual Arts

Blue Skies Art Gallery will host a book signing featuring Hampton City Historian,
John V. Quarstein, on Saturday, July 26 from 11:00 to 4:00 pm.  He will be signing
Fort Monroe, History of Ironclads and
The Civil War on the Virginia Peninsula

Mr. Quarstein is an award winning historian, preservationist and author.  He has served as director of the Virginia War Museum, curator of various Newport New historical properties, historical advisor for The Mariners Museum's U.S.S. Monitor Center project.

He has also served as adjunct professor at the College of William and Mary, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Mr. Quarstein is the recipient of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 1993 Presidents Award for Historic Preservation Award, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy's Jefferson Davis Gold Medal (1999)

Reader's Choice
Readers of the Daily Press voted on the 2007 Reader's Choice Awards for the Greater Hampton Roads area. The Reader's Choice results, based solely on the opinions and preferences of the general public, have three award designations: Gold, Silver and Bronze.