The Hahn Horticulture Garden (HHG) is not only a fabulous collection of living art; it is a showplace for artists from throughout the New River Valley and surrounding area. The Pavilion hosts 6 artist a year with a wide diversity of visual arts from photography to handmade paper; acrylics, watercolors and oils; mono-printing to metal work. The love of nature is shown in the creativeness of our local artists.
In 2015 the art went outside and Simply Elemental was born. Simply Elemental is an outdoor multi-artist installation integrated along the garden paths, plantings, and trees of the HHG. It is held annually from August 1st and September 30th. Simply Elemental 2018 was the first time that Performing Artists were also included.
In conjunction with the art show, the HHG has conducted a variety of events, including meet the artists receptions, hands-on art workshops, speakers and garden-art tours. Watch our events calendar for dates.
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Simply Elemental is an outdoor, multi-artist installation integrated along the garden paths, plantings, and trees of the Hahn Horticulture Garden at Virginia Tech. It is held annually between August 1st and September 30th.
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A veteran journalist, author, poet and photographer, Andrea Brunais earned a B.A. in mass communications from the University of South Florida. She is a juried artist at Tamarack, West Virginia’s premier cultural and arts exhibition center. She exhibited at Carnegie Hall in Lewisburg, West Virginia, in 2024, the same year her painting “The Big Splash” took Best of Show in the annual exhibit of the Appalachian Artist Association. Her painting “Where the Waterfall Ends” also won Best of Show in that exhibit the previous year.
Her painting “Turning Point” was voted best by Glade Church in 2023, host of the annual show of the Blacksburg Regional Art Association. Other awards include bronze and silver in two international competitions in 2022, as well as a special award from the Bath County Arts Association in 2024 for the painting “Back to the Farmhouse.”
Other solo shows include the Paine Gallery; Gary Bowling’s House of Art in Bluefield, West Virginia; Diamonds and More in Princeton, West Virginia; and the Walter Shroyer Gallery at Bluefield University in Virginia.
Brunais worked in Outreach and International Affairs at Virginia Tech for 10 years. She took up soft pastels in 2020, studying with online instructors Alain Picard, Marla Baggetta and impressionist Susan Jenkins. A resident of the Mountain State, she lives in Bluefield and loves to contemplate West Virginia’s rivers, waterfalls, mountains, bluffs and wild skies.
