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Current Art Exhibits
Levi Stables
Atrium Exhibit | January - February
"I strive to make work that is visually engaging and offers a deeper story or experience for those willing to sit with a piece. Often, you will find vague narrative elements in my pieces—curious fragments of a greater puzzle. My hope is that you will engage with these open-ended stories by filling in the gaps yourself, dear viewer. This breaks the standard hierarchy between the artist, the creation, and the consumer. The narrative interpretations involve the viewer in the act of creation alongside the artist. You get to choose what is happening in that story. You have a sense of agency, being more than just a consumer at the mercy of my product."
Donna C. Kocka
Sanctuary Exhibit | January - February
Born and raised in a southern family, Donna has been drawing since she could hold a pencil. Donna Cruce Koćka, BFA, University of Tennessee (1986), is a Staunton, VA resident. She is married and has three children, one beautiful grandson. Currently she is enjoying painting and she leads group bible studies. She also loves to hike and camp in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, read, walk in the park with her dog, travel and have tea with friends.
She is now retired from teaching but began teaching art to children during her senior year of college. And along the way as Donna was raising her children she was painting portraits, murals, theater set design and construction, faux finishes and a little graphic design.
​In 2011 she took a landmark oil painting class with Cedric Egeli, an internationally known colorist and portrait artist on Cape Cod. This outdoor portrait class began a new journey for her. She is fascinated with the effects of light and color and has since studied on the Cape again with Camille Prezwodek and at Maryland Hall with John Ebersberger. At the local Beverley Street Studio School she has taken classes with Elise Blake, Jeffery Stockberger and numerous classes with the renowned colorist, Ron Boehmer. Boehmer is recognized as one of Virginia's foremost landscape painters and has had a heavy influence on Koćka’s painting.
In the Springs of 2018 - 2023 she has participated as an invited plein air painter the Queen City Plein Air Festival/ Virginia Garden Club, Garden tours. She has has been in numerous shows and festivals in and around the Shenandoah Valley. ​Her love for painting plein-air painting often draws her outdoors to the beautiful Virginia countryside or to historic downtown Staunton. She also spends time at her studio and gallery, IagoArts, in downtown Staunton.
She is drawn to her love for painting plein air in the beautiful Virginia countryside and in downtown Staunton. She also spends much of her time at her new studio, IagoArts, near downtown Staunton.
Donna is currently painting outdoor children’s portraits, landscapes and murals and is available for commission art work.
If you have any questions about anything you may contact her for a commison painting, use the contact button above. She will respond quickly.
