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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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This Pendleton County native achieved regional notoriety late in life for his folk art.
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This Sutton-based artist designed the statue of Robert C. Byrd in the West Virginia State Capitol and a bronze memorial to Hawks Nest Tunnel victims at Tamarack in Beckley.
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Gutzon Borglum, who designed the statue of Collis P. Huntington in Huntington, is best known for designing what landmark?
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This West Virginia first lady played a leading role in Mountain Artisans, a cooperative quilting business.
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In what city is the Stifel Fine Arts Center located?
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What museum hosts the biennial West Virginia Juried Exhibition?
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When this work won the top art prize for the 1963 Centennial, Charleston Mayor John Shanklin called it "atrocious."
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Patty Willis was a well-known artist from this county.
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