'America at 250' exhibit at Crossroads Art Center 'has sparked so many conversations'

America's 250th birthday may have passed, but the celebration continues at a Henrico art gallery — and the conversations it is sparking are reaching well beyond its walls.

The Crossroads Art Center off Staples Mill Road near Willow Lawn is hosting "America at 250: A Celebration Through Art," an exhibit open to the public through Friday, July 31. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Jenni Kirby, owner of the Crossroads Art Center, said the exhibit has prompted unexpected conversations about heritage, ancestry and history.

"I can't tell you how much this exhibit has provoked people talking about their ancestry and where they come from and who was here to the Revolutionary War and who came through Jamestown. It has sparked so many conversations, not even in this building, but outside the building when I'm out in public and people are asking me about the exhibition," Kirby said.

The exhibit features work almost entirely by living artists, with just two exceptions — pieces by recently deceased artists whose families have maintained their spaces in the show. The work ranges from paintings and photography to dimensional pieces made from fabric, felt and even barrel staves.

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