Six months ago, we wrote about Sigrid “Siri” Herlevsen and the way she sees the natural world. A twist in a branch. A swirl in a patch of moss. The colors and contours that most of us might walk past without noticing.
This fall, Siri’s way of seeing has taken her from the Hill to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Before graduating from Miller School last spring, Siri submitted one of her watercolor paintings to the Virginia Watercolor Society’s statewide high school competition. Her work earned first place and is now hanging at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond as part of the 47th Virginia Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition. The exhibition includes more than 100 works selected from artists across Virginia and marks the first time VMFA has hosted a statewide juried watercolor exhibition.
This week, Miller School art teacher Jen Skipper took a group of current art students to Richmond to see Siri’s painting hanging in the museum.
For the students who made the trip, there was something special about seeing the work of a recent Miller graduate on the wall at VMFA. Not long ago, Siri was working alongside them in the Art Room, filling sketchbooks and finding inspiration in the woods, streams, and quiet corners of the Miller School campus.
Now her work hangs among artists from across Virginia.
The exhibition remains on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts through November 1.