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This photographer edited Wonderful West Virginia magazine for many years.
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Fairmont native Fred Torrey designed which one of these statues?
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This Morgantown native was a teacher and administrator at Charleston's Mason College of Music & Fine Arts and had her work exhibited at the National Museum of Women and the Arts and the West Virginia State Museum.
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In 1997, this artist became the first West Virginia woman ever to receive a federal commission for art, for two paintings at the IRS National Computing Center in Martinsburg.
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This Huntington artist designed 80 U.S. postage stamps.
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In 1852, a group of artists documented scenic sites in what would become West Virginia while riding on this railroad.
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Renowned architect Walter Gropius designed additions to this West Virginia museum?
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During the Civil War, this 12-year-old future artist guided U.S. troops to an important river landing in Parkersburg.
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Warps and wefts are associated with what art form?
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What museum hosts the biennial West Virginia Juried Exhibition?
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