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Fredrick “Craig” Franz at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Essentially self taught as a painter, Frederick “Craig” Franz has been creating art for the last 17 years. Studying art in college led to a brief career as a jeweler/craftsman and then onto his forty year career as a dental technician fabricating and sculpting porcelain crowns and bridgework.

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Shirley Light at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Because of her extensive travels, Shirley has a visual scrap book of places and people that she draws upon for her art.

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Tunde Afolyan Famous at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Tunde has emerged among the ranks of contemporary African artists embracing figurative expressionism. Exploring color as the basis of painting, Tunde infuses spiritualism and symbolism in his powerful lyrical expressions.

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Lee Harper at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Lee’s oil paintings reflect “dancing on the canvas” and are full of motion and heavily pigmented color, brimming with vibrant energy.

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High Country Modern Quilt Guild at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

The High Country Modern Quilt Guild was formed in 2016 for local artists who specialize in quilts with a modern twist. This week, twenty Guild members will offer creations to include wall hangings, quilted paintings, thread paintings, decorative stitched fabric bowls, placemats and table runners, baskets, rope bowls, hand bags, tote bags and one of a kind wearables.

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Morgan McCarver at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Morgan’s work is inspired by Victorian American women. Because women have historically been compared to delicate flowers, Morgan reinterprets that symbolism by allowing porcelain wildflower imagery to represent a woman’s inner strength.

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Samuel & Ashley Burr at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Bold color and thoughtful emotion are common threads in Samuel and Ashley’s collaborative paintings. Using colors and themes of the four distinct seasons, they hope to impart a sense of safety and solace with works inspired by old world simplicity.

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David Collins at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

A self-taught artist and art teacher, David was born in Sebring, Ohio. Having contracted polio as a young child, he passed time drawing, coloring, constructing and painting with watercolor.

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Wendy Morrison Painter at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

As an architecture student at North Carolina State University’s School of Design, Wendy focused on painting, pottery, photography, life drawing and graphics.

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Evenlight Eagles at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Evenlight’s work is handcrafted in the spirit of connecting to and caring for the earth. She often uses leathers with positive social and environmental attributes, including repurposed and low chemical leathers, as well as free-range leathers from animals that were legally hunted and used for their meat.

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Susan Sharpe at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

For more than 30 years Susan has created original fiber art at her Redwing Studio overlooking a quiet mountain stream in northwestern NC.

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Kathryn Regel at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Kathryn has been described as a weaver of stories; her work, a unique combination of art, memories and ancestry.

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Waitsel Smith at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

North Carolina artist Waitsel Smith is a visual artist living in Lenoir with over 30 years experience painting the people and places of North Carolina.

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Todd Wright Returns to Edgewood Cottage

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Todd Wright and Nathan Hefner will perform on the porch of Edgewood Cottage (Weather Permitting) on July 22 from 1-3 pm. Artists Cindy McEnery and Karin Neuvirth will be showing in the cottage. Remember to bring lawn chairs or blankets and enjoy! 

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Cindy McEnery at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

While Cindy’s love of photography began as a child, her real growth came after she retired from corporate America.

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Karin Neuvirth at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Karin recalls that, as a child, color could drastically affect her emotional state, and today color is, by far, the most dominant element in her compositions.

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Susan March Payne at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Susan’s distinctive fiber works combine landscape painting with quilt construction to create functional modern quilts as well as decorative art quilts and wall hangings.

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Jane Coffey Campbell at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

As a self-taught fiber artist, Jane finds trial and error has played an important role in building the artistic confidence to work and teach.

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Earl Davis at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Earl is mainly a painter of landscapes in oil--local Blue Ridge scenes, memorable landscapes from hiking vacations in national parks and woodlands.

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Allise Whitworth at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Allise Whitworth is a lifelong art educator who taught for almost five decades before shifting her focus to the process of making art.

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Theresa Gloster at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Theresa Gloster is a storyteller who conveys her stories through paint and other media stories about childhood and memories sparked by things that happen in the world today.

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Veronica Vale at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

As an outdoor enthusiast, Veronica has been privileged to follow adventure to many breathtaking scenes of inspiration. She’s found joy in documenting wild scenes along the way, from her former home in the mountains of Utah to her travels throughout the western US to her current home in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Randi Robeson at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Randi always appreciated art but it wasn’t until she retired that she began to pursue her own art journey. Randi’s love of horticulture and botany has informed her still life paintings and in oil painting

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Scott Ballard at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

As chief photographer at Lees-McRae College followed by program photographer for the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, Scott’s art journey began with photography.

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Lauren Waterworth at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Lauren Waterworth grew up in Watauga County and has lived in western North Carolina most of her life. She minored in Studio Art at Appalachian State before earning a Master’s Degree in Geology from Texas A&M University.

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Lucas Hundley at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Function, beauty, feeling and fun drive Lucas’s work. His hope is that the energy he invests in every piece flows to the users and enriches their lives. Whether his creations are functional or decorative, the wood he uses is sourced responsibly from local woodlands.

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Cathy Futral at Artists in Residence

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Cathy Futral is an artist who favors watercolor and acrylic mediums, often plein air or working from photographs of her extensive travel in the U.S. and abroad.

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Artists in Residence Begins

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Free art shows in Blowing Rock! Daily through Labor Day, new artists every Monday.

Meet different High Country artists each week. Buy original art directly from artists- Art for every interest and budget.

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Artists in Residence: Skip Sickler

Edgewood Cottage 115 Ginny Stevens Ln., Blowing Rock, NC

Free art shows in Blowing Rock! Meet different high country artists each week and buy original art directly. Daily through Labor Day, new artists each Monday. This week: Skip Sickler, photographer  

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