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This statewide organization began as the Charleston Art Association in 1930.
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This Pendleton County native achieved regional notoriety late in life for his folk art.
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This Cedar Grove native won the Governor's Award at the West Virginia Juried Exhibition three times and the Award of Excellence at Huntington Museum of Art's Exhibition 280.
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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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This Charleston-based artist helped outfit the state Centennial showboat Rhododendron and curate the 1968 Appalachian Corridors exhibition.
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What year was the first Mountain State Art & Craft Fair held at Cedar Lakes?
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The Madonna of the Trail statue in this West Virginia city is one of 12 identical statues across the country honoring America’s pioneering women
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Rufus "Red" Ribble was best known for his photographs of what?
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Warps and wefts are associated with what art form?
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