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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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    ORIGINALS |Sassa Wilkes’ “100 Days of Badass Women”

    October 5, 2020 /

    The recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspired West Virginia artist Sassa Wilkes to paint a portrait of one badass woman. Wilkes didn't stop there. Here's a preview of 99 more to come.

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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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