BECKLEY, W.Va. — Tamarack will celebrate its 20th anniversary Monday simultaneously with West Virginia day.
Director Jim Browder said the festivities will start during the day and continue at night with a gala.
“We’re going to be serving 20th anniversary birthday cake in the lobby as people arrive. We’ve got a lot of demonstrators and exhibitors throughout the place in addition to all of the other things we normally have going on around here.”
The gala will be a celebration of past and future, Browder said.
“It’s a celebration of 20 years but it’s also an appreciation dinner. We’ve invited a lot of the people who were here originally that started Tamarack,” he explained. “Governor (Gaston) Caperton will be here. We’ve got a lot of people that were involved in the planning, artists that were involved in the stain glass windows; that made the doors, all those type things.”
The anniversary celebration will also be a chance for Tamarack to show off a new open air gallery with an outdoor sculpture garden.
“We’ve been working on it for months,” Browder said. “They’re larger pieces that we typically cannot hold inside the retail space. This is art that is for sale for office buildings, public parks, things of that type. We’ve got them now on display outside.”
The state of West Virginia is 153 years old on Monday. The West Virginia Legislature formally recognized West Virginia Day as a state holiday in 1927.