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April Issue 2003
Wickwire Gallery in Hendersonville, NC, Takes Part in Public Art Project
Wickwire fine art/folk art gallery in Hendersonville, NC, is participating in a public art project called, Bearfootin' in Hendersonville, which will take place Apr. 25 through Nov. 8, 2003.
Wickwire, located on Main Street
in Hendersonville is sponsoring one of nearly thirty community
"Bearfriends" in the first ever Bearfootin' in Hendersonville
2003, a family-fun-and-friendly public art exhibit produced
by Downtown Hendersonville, Inc. and the Henderson County Arts
Council. On tree-lined sidewalks, the decorated bears will show
the creativity of those members of the community, sponsors and
artists, who have collaborated to bring the public this temporary
display of individually different ornamented and adorned bears.
The bears are approximately 5 feet long, 3 feet high, 20 inches
wide and weigh a hearty 35 lbs.
Wickwire gallery's Bearfootin' bear is "out of hibernation" and poised for painting by Sarah Sneeden. An accomplished artist with versatility and a distinctive style, Sneeden has offered her time and talent to paint with acrylics a completely 'bedecked' bear! "The Bearfootin' bear," says Shirley Palmer-Hill, owner of Wickwire Gallery, "is a gift from our gallery to the community. Sarah is working on a friendly bear design that uniquely portrays the Gallery's traditional theme and that will stand as an original, popular addition to this exciting historic downtown Hendersonville event."
Artist, Sarah Sneeden
a North Carolina resident since 1967 graduated from Centenary
College in New Jersey, the Famous Artists School, the New York
Institute of Photography, and the Portrait Institute of New York.
Annual workshops in the West (Montana, Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico
and California) have added educational experience and new ideas
to her painting repertoire. A voracious reader, Sarah's extensive
art library (close to 500 volumes) keeps the art world at her
fingertips. Her oil paintings have hung in shows from coast-to-coast
from the 10th Annual National Juried Oil Painters of America Show
in Palm Desert, California to the Hilton Head Art League's Annual
Juried Show in South Carolina. She was also on the Mountain Arts
Studio Tour, Hendersonville, NC. She likes watercolors, prima
color pencils, and pastels for sketching but prefers oils for
her finished pieces. When she can find a sunny spot, Sarah's favorite
way of working is en plein air working on location where
she can study firsthand the play of light on her subject.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings,
call the gallery at 828/692-6222 or e-mail at (wickwire@bellsouth.net).
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