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Holland Van Gores started working with wood as a teenager in shop classes, and continued working with his hands doing construction. Eventually he found an interest in working with native tropical woods and began making art pieces out of fallen logs.
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In 2008, Ken Burkel and other members of the Clemmons Rotary Club in Forsyth County launched a program to heighten public awareness for the need for organ and tissue donors in North Carolina. The program created roadside billboards and recently partnered with the North Carolina Trucking Association to display custom banners of organ recipients and donor families.
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The new exhibit Howard Pyle and The Wyeths: Four Generations of American Imagination places the art of artists, Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and Jamie Wyeth. The exhibition explores the impact Pyle had on three generations of Wyeth’s as N.C. Wyeth’s teacher. From the Brandywine School, the four artists are connected by the narrative quality of their work. A description of the four artists’ work and their impact on each other and viewers is discussed in a preview to the exhibition.
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Painters Bill Mangum and \"Cotton\" Ketchie, and photographer Carl Moser, Jr., live in the Piedmont, but their paintings and lenses capture scenes of the state, from the mountains to the coast.
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Artist Jacob Marling (1774-1833) settled in Raleigh in 1818. In addition to painting and teaching, his cultural activities included founding the "North Carolina Museum," an early subscription library.
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The North Carolina Booklet
(NoCar F 251 .N86), Vol. 10 Issue 4, April 1911,
p196-199
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Through the disciplines of math, physics, and art, Jim Waters creates paintings and works of art that are fascinating and pleasing to look at.
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Joe Seme of Linville is one of the nation’s outstanding realist artists. Seme, who is entirely self-taught, credits his success to ideals passed on from a college writing professor and a day he spent in the North Carolina mountains. His still life paintings have featured old books, farm houses, and old mills.
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24486
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Richard (Adria) Alston of Franklin County has devoted her life to studying and preserving the old art of making fine bobbin lace by hand. This article presents the history of bobbin lace making and the various techniques Alston uses in making her own.
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Twenty one year old artist, Caroline Merino, attributes much of her work and success to her faith. Since childhood, both art and church have been staples in her life as she moved from military base to military base with her family. Since beginning college, Merino’s work has been exhibited at several public spaces in Fayetteville. Merino also runs a ministry based business which combines art and public speaking.
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28848
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Living the Arts, a project by the North Carolina Arts Council, is a small glimpse of rural art communities in North Carolina. Despite the lack of formal art training, these artists draw from their rural heritage and rural landscape for inspiration.
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Painter Marvin Saltzman is a former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor known for rigorous critiques and pushing students hard. Influential in the careers of many Triangle area artists, Saltzman is a landscape painter who combines impressionist and expressionist styles. Fourteen of his landscapes are on display in Hillsborough’s Eno Gallery in a new retrospective.
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42597
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Combining her love of pottery making and time spent with Native American tribes in the Southwest, Lucy Clark makes unique ceramic and jewelry.
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36957
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Butch and Louise Goings are professional artisans with a lifelong commitment to preserving tradition. Louise is a basket maker, a skill learned from her mother, and Butch does wood carvings.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 62 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 2015,
p25-29
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Micaville Gallery in Mitchell County features works of artists from Avery, Mitchell, and Yancy Counties. The gallery was a company store for Harris Clay Company workers in the 1920s and later a country store until the late 1970s.
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Raised within an artistic family, Kolbe grew up exploring different artistic techniques and mediums. His dedication to artwork paid off in the forms of several jobs with Disney and has galleries in Florida and North Carolina.
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