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March Issue 2004
Artists Kick Off Folk Art Month at Maddi's Gallery in Charlotte, NC
March, 2004, is Folk Art Month at Maddi's Gallery in Charlotte, NC. Work by major southern folk painters, sculptors and potters will be featured in exhibits with special celebration price opportunities.
Two Georgia folk artists, Lizzy Williams and Ann Finley will kickoff the celebration, which opens Mar. 6. Both artists will show a large selection of their work and be on hand to discuss and sign their pieces.
Williams is a self-taught painter who does most of her work on found pieces of wood. She paints bold designs in bright colors often incorporating a painted frame so her work "doesn't fall off the edge". It is said that she has never painted either a dull or an unhappy piece.
Finley calls her work Ironcraft, as she turns old metal into fanciful art. In her earlier life she was a university administrator who took one course in metal sculpture at the Atlanta College of Art and never turned back. Once she had the torch in hand the possibilities were endless - animals, flowers arid angels adorn her work for the home and garden.
Folk Art Month at Maddi's will feature work by more than forty folk artists including painters Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Bernice Sims, Annie T, and Kim Clayton. Also included are carvers such as Minnie Adkins, Harry Jennings and the Moneys, as well as folk potters Charles Lisk, Steve Abee and Kim Ellington.
For more information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 704/332-0007 or on the web at (www.maddisgallery.com).
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