Oct. 17, 2007
 
Bluefield Area Arts Center Names Cameron Burton executive Director, Adds 3 New Office Tenants
 
By BNN Staff
 
Bluefield, WV (BNN) -- Bluefield Arts Center has appointed Cameron Burton executive director. Burton, a member of Summit Players, is familiar to area listeners from her years as a drive-time DJ for Kicks Country radio (WHKX). In addition to managing and operating the Arts Center at 500 Bland Street, she is currently Bland High School's drama coach.
 


Hal Gibson


Burton has added three tenants to the Arts Center's office space at 500 Bland Street: graphic artist Alex Crookshanks, photographer Hal Gibson and writer Andrea Brunais.
 
Crookshanks' xanderHOUSEproductions offers not only graphic design of print materials but also website creation. Crookshanks was formerly art director for Acken Signs in Bluefield, Virginia.
 
Brunais' Ink Inc Communications specializes in writing, PR and crisis communications. Brunais, an author and former newspaper executive with Media General and Knight Ridder, recently moved to Bluefield from Tampa, Florida. Her husband, photographer Hal Gibson, focuses on news, landscapes, people and events.
 


Andrea Brunais


Ink Inc Communications and xanderHOUSEproductions operate from second-floor offices adjacent to Burton's. Hal Gibson photography is setting up shop on the third floor.
 
"We are pleased to add Alex, Andrea and Hal and to our tenant list," Burton said. "In choosing their office space, they found that the Arts Center's strategic downtown location plus the center's commitment to the Bluefield cultural scene worked for them on many levels."
 
With the new tenants' rental of office space on the second and third floors, occupancy of the historic building is nearing 100 percent. One remaining office on the second floor is available. Anyone interested in leasing may contact Burton at (304) 325-8000 or email thesummit@frontiernet.net.
 


Alex Crookshanks


Bluefield Area Arts Center is the home of the Alliance for the Arts, Ltd., a 501©3 nonprofit that comprises the Arts Center and Summit Players, Bluefield's 40-year-old community theater troupe. The Alliance is devoted to nurturing and promoting the arts as well as maintaining stewardship of the historic Old City Hall building on Bland Street in Bluefield, West Virginia.
 
For more information please call 304.920.2061 or email Andrea@Ink-Inc.tv