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This Monongalia County native was one of the 20th century's leading abstract painters and printmakers.
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Appalachian Craftsmen was started as part of this program.
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Which one of the following was NOT a leading painter in the Upper Ohio Valley in the 1800s?
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What 19th-century Martinsburg-based artist sketched scenes of John Brown's hanging and the Civil War?
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This Huntington expressionist abstract painter was the subject of the first retrospective of a West Virginia artist's work ever exhibited at the Culture Center in Charleston.
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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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In the 1950s, West Virginia's Future Homemakers and Future Farmers clubs raised funds to build the Crafts House at this place.
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Thaddeus Fowler was known for drawing what?
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This West Virginia first lady played a leading role in Mountain Artisans, a cooperative quilting business.
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Warps and wefts are associated with what art form?
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