Two Richmond printmakers will open an exhibition, "What a Relief: Prints by Jack Glover and Mary Holland," on Thursday, Jan. 26 in Sweet Briar College's Babcock Art Gallery. The show will continue through March 19. Glover and Holland will speak briefly and will meet the public at an opening reception from 5 to 6 p.m. on Jan. 26.

"Baptism," by Mary Holland, 2005, relief print.A veteran of Richmond public schools, Glover has organized creative productions in music and theater, filmmaking and television, and art. His work has received the David B. Marshal Award for best new American musical and the Iris Award for the best locally produced children's television show in the United States.

Glover's work is in various corporate and public collections, and has been exhibited widely throughout Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Glover says he is inspired by the small-town news of his childhood in Greencastle, Ind. "I'm always going back to those old homespun newspapers I've saved in my studio. Now people know my game and often they'll send me something of human interest, for instance, a flounder that was flung through someone's windshield with the caption, 'Flying fish discovered on I-95.' I am drawn to hopeful things and I want to present art that makes people smile."

Holland is the Thomas C. Gordon Jr. director of the Studio School at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, where she oversees studio art workshops for the general public. She has taught at the Nimrod Hall Summer Arts Program and was a former director of the Richmond Printmaking Workshop.

Holland's work has been exhibited throughout Virginia and includes a unique collaboration with ceramicist Steven Glass. She has been part of three previous group exhibitions at Sweet Briar, including "The Artist's Book" and "Works in Clay by Virginia Women," curated by Sweet Briar art professors Laura Pharis and Joe Monk respectively.

Both artists are members of the Richmond-based printmakers' collaborative ONE/OFF and have exhibited widely with the group.

The Babcock Gallery is in the Babcock Fine Arts Center, adjacent to the gymnasium at Sweet Briar College. The exhibit is free to the public. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday through Friday with evening hours until 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The gallery is closed on Saturdays. For more information, please contact Rebecca Massie Lane, director of SBC galleries, at rmlane@sbc.edu or (434) 381-6248.