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This statewide organization began as the Charleston Art Association in 1930.
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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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Kanawha County native Herman Hayes was best known for his work in this field.
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This Pendleton County native achieved regional notoriety late in life for his folk art.
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This Kanawha County native sculpted a bear on the former West Virginia Tech campus at Montgomery, a beaver at Bluefield High School, and a madonna and child in a Kanawha Valley church.
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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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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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This artist designed the West Virginia Veterans' Memorial and Military Women's Memorial at the State Capitol.
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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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