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Susan McLaurin created a sculpture of First Dog Millie presenting the American flag to Santa Claus. McLaurin gave it to the Bushes as a Christmas present.
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Wayland Cato is a glass artist and the owner of New Moon, a business that offers horse rides from Cedar Island to Ocracoke.
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Individual artists in North Carolina have suffered a woeful lack of funding in past years.
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William T. Williams, whose painting \"Double Dare\" hangs in the North Carolina Museum of Art, was born and raised in Spring Lake, and now teaches at Brooklyn College in New York.
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Support for the arts in North Carolina is a rare blend of public and private monies and individuals. This has encouraged the growth of a diverse community of creativity in such areas as filmmaking, music, painting, literature, and folk crafts
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2486
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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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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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Gutted by fire in 1985, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Charlotte has risen from the ashes in a new guise - the Tryon Center for Visual Art. Restored through a $7 million grant from Bank of America, the center provides three-month grants and work space to national and international artists. It is also a place where young and old can take classes, artists can exhibit, and local artists can lease space for a small fee.
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Three artists and an art gallery, all from the North Carolina Piedmont, are profiled. They are David E. Doss, Forsyth County; Sherry Little Perini, Greensboro; Pencie Cardwell, King; and the 2ArtChick gallery, which is run by Judi Kaster and Anne Wilson in Greensboro.
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Willie Taglieri was a police officer in Manhattan for seven years before becoming an artist in 1958. Last year, the Kellenberger Foundation and the Craven and Jones County Art Councils put together a grant for Taglieri to pant a scaled-down mural in a former bank building in downtown New Bern. Taglieri is currently working on the full-scale mural in the courthouse and hopes to have it completed by May.
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Burnsville conceptual artist Mel Chin was the subject of a major retrospective at the New Orleans Museum of Art, titled Mel Chin: Rematch. O'Sullivan examines Chin's inspirations and artwork.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 8 Issue 4, July/August 2014,
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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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St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is located in the small community of Beaver Creek and houses a number of famous frescoes painted by Ben Long, a Tar Heel artist.
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24519
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Al Fincher, an artist from Charlotte, dedicated his time to painting historic buildings in each of North Carolina’s 100 counties; his watercolors are presented here.
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24731
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From October 17, 2015 through January 17, 2016, the North Carolina Museum of Art exhibited the work of the twentieth century Dutch artist, M.C. Escher. The exhibit featured over 130 pieces, including woodcuts, lithographs, drawings, and more, made between the 1920s and the 1960s. The exhibit was the most comprehensive collection of Escher’s work ever displayed in the United States.
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Indy Week
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57), Vol. 32 Issue 44, November 2015,
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