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S. L. Jones of Summers County was best known for his work in this field.
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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 Eastern Panhandle landscape artist's work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Museum of American Art.
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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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Gutzon Borglum, who designed the statue of Collis P. Huntington in Huntington, is best known for designing what landmark?
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West Virginia's oldest known statue, located in Morgantown, depicts which U.S. founder?
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A statue of which person stands outside the Mingo County Courthouse?
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This Summers County potter plays music while he works and says his glaze differs based on the type of music he's playing at the time.
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For three decades, artist Chris Dutch worked with this Charleston artist on award-winning mixed media pieces.
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