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    CEREMONIAL NOTES: A snapshot of one Earth’s most eclectic events in little old West Virginia last night

    April 13, 2025 /

    It’s just not often that Luke Bryan; Jeff Tweedy with his post-Wilco band; the Womack Sisters of the lineage of Bobby Womack and Sam Cooke; Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel; John “Some Kind of Wonderful” Ellison; Ann Magnuson; Lionel Cartwright; and Tim O’Brien, among other acts, all perform on the same stage. The 2025 West Virginia Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony yesterday in the Mountain State’s capital city was the very definition of eclectic.

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    THE/ARTS: Charly Jupiter Hamilton, in his own words

    October 1, 2021 /

    Charly Jupiter Hamilton reviews himself: "A lot of my feelings about my art — it's Catholic. You know? It has sin. Redemption. It has lust. It has love. It has hell. It has heaven in it. And I think that appeals to people ..."

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    THE/ARTS: A public art boss on Charly Jupiter Hamilton’s bravura mural, an ArtBus & his artful coffin

    October 1, 2021 /

    The wonder of the 'Wonder Mural' in Charleston WV, the art and significance of public art according to West Virginia's capital city Public Arts director, and sending an artist off in artistic style.

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    THE/ARTS: When Charly Jupiter Hamilton channeled hippo hearts & Shakespeare

    October 1, 2021 /

    A heap of hippopotamus hearts and famous American journalist's appreciation are two ways to recall the legacy of Charly Jupiter Hamilton.

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    ART/WORK: Sharon Lynn and the Path Taken

    August 4, 2021 /

    How do the paths we choose affect the choices in our lives? And where do begin the path? A new series of works by West Virginia artist Sharon Lyn looks at the first steps take on the paths in our lives.

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    PHOTOSHOW: A high-up visit to Robert Singleton’s West Virginia studio

    July 6, 2021 /

    A portrait of the artist at age 84 in his sunlit West Virginia mountaintop studio. Robert Singleton is on a roll, adding another chapter to a remarkable life. Here's what he looks like at work.

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    ART/WORK: A video gaze at new work by Sharon Lyn

    May 5, 2021 /

    You wouldn't think Twitter would be a place to watch an artist's development. But that would be the case with West Virginia artist Sharon Lyn. Here's a video of some of her striking newest work.

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    ARTSHOW: ‘How Do You Serve the Ice?’

    February 25, 2021 /

    How do you properly shoot, process, and filter photographs of an ice storm for the ages? How about artifying them? But how much is too much? Here are some humble attempts to portray the Great Winter Ice Storm of 2021.

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    VIDEO: Other ways of looking at a Mail Pouch barn

    February 16, 2021 /

    Mail Pouch barn signs became such an iconic, familiar image, showcased in tens of thousands of similarly framed snapshots, postcards, and saturated photographs that they are almost impossible to see afresh. We give it a go in "Chew This Way."

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    ONE WORK: “Misconceptions” and Angry Black Mothers

    February 14, 2021 /

    Lady D: "I decided on “Misconceptions” because that’s how most black women are viewed. It is a misconception that seems to have been perpetrated by a society that not only de-values us, but also fears our male children."

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    THE FEMALE GAZE: How a West Virginia Artist Captured 100 Badass Women

    February 3, 2021 /

    Overwhelmed by the headlines, by Donald Trump, a pandemic and winter coming, West Virginia artist Sassa Wilkes couldn't get herself to her easel. Then, RBG died and Sassa found she wished to get to know the legal legend by painting her portrait. She kept on going with 99 more portraits of badass women.

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    VIDEO: 9 Ways of Looking at ‘Hallelujah”

    December 30, 2020 /

    We dip into the archives of West Virginia cultural multimedia with a 2010 video appreciation of Albert Paley's striking 198,000 monumental sculpture, "Hallelujah," in Charleston WV. Get up close-and personal with a great work of art.

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    VIDEO: The Artist’s Work Considered As a Moving Picture Show

    December 19, 2020 /

    Sharon Lyn Stackpole's art considered as a video: "I always had a female character in my drawings either in illustration form or comic and I'd have her acting out whatever I was also living in my drawings. For some reason, this was reassuring and helped me to feel less alone."

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    ILLUSTRATIONS | The Wonderful Friend

    August 22, 2020 /

    "When I finally got to art school, a professor asked me why I ever became an artist in the first place. I told him the truth ..."

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    CHARACTERS: A Portrait of the Artist in Her Garden

    August 20, 2020 /

    Sassa Wilkes paints every day. Now, she is painting in a different fashion, using the Earth as a palette. A portrait of a West Virginia artist growing things in a big way for the first time, thanks to Covid-19.

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    CHARACTERS | Recalling Stick Artist-Poet-Philosopher-Shaman Boyd Carr

    July 26, 2020 /

    Boyd Carr, who died at age 88 this summer, was many things. West Virginia-based poet Kirk Judd recalls a man he describes as "one of the few true geniuses I have known. He was brilliant in his use of language and in the art of storytelling."

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    A Portrait of the Artist in Her Studio & Out: Jes Reger

    July 24, 2020 /

    Jes Reger is an accomplished watercolorist based in Wheeling WV. In the first of a series of profiles of Tamarack for the Arts 2020 Emerging Artist fellows, she talks about the challenges of being a working painter during a global pandemic.

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