The 2020 Student Scholarship Winners have been chosen and recipients will have their art on display at the Virginia Beach Art Center from August 8 through month end. Please join us on August 8th at 10:30am for a Facebook Live announcement of the winners!
The 2020 Ocean View Art Show has been canceled.
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Please email the application and three examples of your work to cbaamembership757@gmail.com. You will be notified of the committee’s decision within two weeks of receiving the application. Upon acceptance into CBAA, the membership chair will email you information on the next meeting and where to send/bring your membership dues. The January annual membership fee is $20.00; after March $30.00. Checks should be made out to CBAA.
CBAA Library meetings are on hold at this time.
Our 58th annual fall show has been canceled in order to support the state's effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 and due to current restrictions. After much discussion we concluded that we could not hold this festival with the necessary safety measures for our members and patrons. We will look forward to 2021.
The CBAA will be hosting the 2021 Spring Members Show and student scholarship exhibit at Gallery 21 in Norfolk next April. More details to come.
CBAA will be hosting the Artists Alley at the Virginia Flower and Garden Expo January 22-24, 2021 with the theme Symphony of Gardens at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.
CBAA Painter Artist
Marisa was born and raised in Italy getting her American citizenship in 1968. Married to an army officer, she has traveled throughout the United States and Europe. Marisa has been expressing herself in art since childhood with painting, interior design, and crafts.
While stationed at Ft Monroe in the early 1980’s she began participating in art shows and exhibits including the Boardwalk Show, Neptune and Portsmouth Art Festivals, Arts in the Park and numerous other venues from Myrtle Beach to Ocean City, Maryland winning multiple awards for her delicate flowers in water color. She and her husband decided to make Virginia their home.
A self-taught artist, her bright, colorful paintings of flowers and birds, and reproductions of renaissance works reflect her personality. Marisa is a night person, usually working from late evening until 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning. Her friends know not to call her before noon. Marisa returns to their home in Italy each summer usually in mid-July returning in early October.
