Don't let her fool you! LOL She isn't no amatuer. She does however paint for fun! Her paintings are beyond wonderful. I have one of them. She could definetly make a living selling them if she desired to. Debra LaMel Davida make sure to read the rest of the emails below ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alta Mitchem Durden" <altamdurden@aol.com> To: <nclincol@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [NCLINCOL] Art Show Opening at the Lincoln Cultural Center March 8 - 28, 2008 > Thank you, Jason, for thinking of me. Wish I could be there, but will be > unable to attend. So sorry (since I am an amateur artist.) 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Littlejohn <kimlittlejohn@carolina.rr.com>; Marie Moore > <moor505@attglobal.net>; Page Abernethy <pbabernethy@charter.net>; Laura > Warlick Griffith <laurawg@mindspring.com>; Pam Richards > <mummsy1996@yahoo.com>; Mike Warlick <mmwarlick@gmail.com>; Larry Cagle > <lcagle@woodmillwinery.com>; Myron Duckworth > <myronjduckworth@bellsouth.net>; Norma Rantanen <enroo4@bellsouth.net>; > Marcia Davis <mdavis@lincolncounty.org>; Mary Ann Greenawalt > <maryanngreenawalt@hotmail.com>; Pat Olsen <donpatolsen@charter.net>; Lucy > Penegar <rmpenegar@msn.com>; Lahser, Robert > <rlahser@charlotteobserver.com>; 'Neal H. Rhyne (E-mail)' > <NRhyne@watsoninsurance.com>; nclincol@rootsweb.com; Martha Royster > <martharoy@bellsouth.net>; Linda Hoyle <linc_lib@yahoo.com>; Margaret > Tuchmann <margaret.tuchmann@morganstanley.com>; Leigh Strickland > <leigh.strickland@ncmail.net>; Leigh Guth <leigh_guth@ncsu.edu>; Lindsay > Bennison <LBennison@arcadiapublishing.com>; Leigh Pressley > <leighpressley@aol.com> > Sent: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 4:41 pm > Subject: Re: [NCLINCOL] Art Show Opening at the Lincoln Cultural Center > March 8 - 28, 2008 > > > > THE LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION AND > LINCOLN CULTURAL CENTER SHOWCASE WORKS OF > ROGER L. STEELE AND GAIL M. LITTLE > > Lincolnton, North Carolina - The Lincoln County Historical Association and > incoln Cultural Center will host a joint art show featuring the works of > Roger > . Steele of Beaufort, North Carolina, and Gail M. Little of Lincolnton, > North > arolina that opens on March 8, 2008 at the Lincoln Cultural Center in > downtown > incolnton. Sponsored by Fatz Café of Lincolnton, Rusty and Company, First > ederal Savings Bank, Town Square Ford of Lincolnton, Spring Hill > Galleries, the > ast Picasso, and Mary and Don Whisonant, the show will showcase prints > from > aster printmaker Roger L. Steele and stick creations entitled "Stick > Women" > rom Lincolnton artist Gail M. Little. > > Roger L. Steele is an adjunct professor in painting, printmaking and > painting at > he University of South Carolina, Beaufort/Hilton Head, and a member of the > outhern Graphics Council and the American Print Alliance. He is a > graduate of > idwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas with a MFA from Texas > hristian University in Fort Worth in graphics and sculpture. He has > presented > orkshops and lectures on chine colle and colorblend techniques in > printmaking > or the Southern Graphics Council and for Wash Art 79 in Washington, DC. > The > echniques Steele uses for his prints are influenced by the nineteenth > century > apanese woodblock prints, and his work embodies many characteristics of > the > echniques found in Japanese prints such as Hiroshige's famous prints "The > 100 > iew of Edo" (Tokyo). His work is in permanent collections in the Sun Oil > ompany of Houston; Omni International, Atlanta; Chase Manhattan Bank, New > York; > he South Carolina Arts Commission; Southern Living, Birmingham; Bank of > merica, Charlotte; The Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Brooks Museum, > emphis, TN; New Orleans Art Museum, New Orleans; Biggs Art Museum, > Charleston; > outh Carolina State Museum, Columbia; and, the Corcoran Museum, > Washington, DC. > > Gail M Little began creating her "Stick Women" while relaxing outdoors > during > he mid-1990s. These women began as small figures that ranged in size from > four > o six inches, and some have grown to five feet in height. She collects > riftwood, coconut fiber, and hand-dried fabrics for her figures while > visiting > er daughter in Maui. She maintains a workshop in the yard of a Maui > rental > ouse where the figures hang, in addition to being displayed on porches and > anais. Now her stick creations are exhibited in galleries in North > Carolina, > outh Carolina, and Hawaii. > > Artworks exhibited in the show will be for sale, and the Lincoln County > istorical Association will receive %15 of the proceeds. > > An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on March 8th from > 6:30 to > :00 at the Lincoln Cultural Center and is open to the public. The works > will > e on exhibit until March 28. PLEASE RSVP BY MARCH 1 AT (704) 748-9090 or > cmh@bellsouth.net. > > > ------------------------------ > o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com > ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > he message > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > More new features than ever. 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