LFCC Dedicates Sekel Art Atrium
Lord Fairfax Community College (LFCC) and the LFCC Educational Foundation, Inc. will host a special dedication ceremony to name The Dolores E.M. Sekel Art Atrium at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. The atrium is in Fairfax Hall on the Middletown Campus.
Shenandoah Valley painter Dolores E. Sekel discovered a love for art after taking classes at LFCC. Sekel created realistic renderings in a multitude of media, including oil, watercolor, charcoal and pastel. Despite crippling arthritis and failing eyesight, Sekel found joy in painting flowers, meadows, portraits and other subjects. Sekel’s work has been exhibited extensively, including several one-person shows.
A resident of Strasburg, Sekel was born in Germany in 1927 and married her husband, George, in Ohio in 1954. They eventually moved to the Shenandoah Valley in 1978, when her husband retired from his work as a diplomat. Sekel served as a member of the Shenandoah Arts Council until her death in 2002. Her husband donated 140 of his wife’s works to the Foundation in her memory.
This free event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information about this event, please contact David Urso, executive director of the Foundation, at 540-868-4077 or durso@lfcc.edu.
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