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Sally Maxwell Kay McAdams Betty Dortch McMath Sarah Merkle Sarah Noebels Ally Orsi LeeNora Parlor Randy Rhea Julie Waschka Patricia Wilkes Virginia Williamson

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 Also, we try to keep
in stock the complete
line of 3-D sculpture
by Judie Bomberger.

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1940, Andrew Kilgore earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Earlham College, Indiana.  His graduate work included study at Union Theological Seminary and at the Stella Adler Theatre Studio.  Kilgore served as a rural Protestant minister in northern Vermont before volunteering for Peace Corps service in India.  From 1969-71 he taught blind severely retarded children at a major state institution in Austin, Texas.  During this period he began to study photography. In 1971 he moved to Fayetteville.  From 1973-77, Kilgore developed a program in photography for the Art Department at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.  Among the special projects Kilgore has done to promote and advocate special segments of society are exhibits honoring mental illness, the elderly, and the homeless. When Arkansas celebrated it’s Sesquicentennial Kilgore celebrated Arkansans by photographing people throughout the state.  The project culminated in a book called Arkansas People Looking Forward.  All through the years since be started doing black and white photography Kilgore’s focus has been people.  The magic of Kilgore’s portraits is his ability to capture a part of the subject’s personality, which is unique to them.  He seems to do this by visiting with them and making them feel comfortable in front of the camera.  Kilgore’s subjects number upward of 25,000 during his nearly thirty-five year career as a professional photographer.  He has saved all of the negatives from his entire career so that he may go back and print portraits from any time. His work is on display in Little Rock at the Arkansas Art Center, Cantrell Gallery, The Arkansas Repertory Theatre and many homes throughout the state.  Cantrell Gallery exhibits Kilgore’s fine art prints.

Kay McAdams can hardly remember when her fascination with graphic art began.  Perhaps it started with a visit, at age six, to Miami, FL, where relatives had relocated.  There, an aunt, who was a commercial artist, took her to her studio and also to a local art gallery.  Many artists and teachers have left their mark on McAdams, starting in the Deep South city of Mobile, AL.  New England and Canada provided more teachers and subjects for Kay.  McAdams has resided in Arkansas since 1980, where she finds an endless supply of subject matter, and travels around our beautiful and diverse country provide additional subjects.

Virginia Williamson
is an elementary school art teacher, and also teaches private art classes. 
Artist Statement:  The images that I create are representative of my life – they are a “sort of self-portrait".  They are an inward look at what I really am and an outward look at what I want to be… As I begin to paint these ‘visions’, I am not aware of their meaning.  I only know that I have an urgent need to paint these pieces.  Many times ideas come to me (all at once) and I am absorbed in painting them, and I begin to sort them out as they tell their story… time takes it’s toll, and things happen to each of us, no matter how invincible we think we are.  I feel that through my art I am able to depict my dreams, and the visions that come to me. 

 Spot Daniel

received a BA in fine arts from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and has been working in fine art, illustration, design, and art instruction.  He currently teaches various art classes for the Arkansas Extended Learning Center in the Little Rock area.  Many of his works are in private and corporate collections across the US and Europe. Nathaniel works in a wide array of materials and sizes, from intimate scale drawings to large paintings and diverse subject matter.  Dailey welcomes the opportunity to do commissioned work.

Ovita Goolsby holds a bachelor's degree from Henderson State University and a master's degree from the University of Arkansas.  A great deal of her portrait training was acquired in New York at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design, School of Fine Arts.   A summer of study in France, under scholarship, further enhanced her skill and knowledge of figure painting.
Her work experience includes teaching, commercial art and museum exhibit design, but the artist's talent and popularity as a portraitist have always brought her back to the easel.

Thom Hall's work is generally figurative - usually triggered by photographs and memories of his more dramatic alter-ego Sylvia Moskowitz. He uses the photos as a compositional aid then puts them aside and the drawing becomes more of an emotional journey with a specific interest in exploring vibrating line and energy.

Hall made small paintings with cloisonné enamel for about 20 years - similar images but certainly more colorful. He worked in very thin layers and often fired a work 40 to 50 times with lots of hand polishing and finishing. Each time the enamel went into the kiln everything was at risk and he learned to like that.  Thom switched to working on paper after having a hip replaced in about 1996 - thinking healthier materials might serve him better. He also felt the need to work on paper since his job at the Arkansas Arts Center is so involved with drawings. Hall works on paper in a risky way similar to the enamels - using water media and working in many layers - dry, then wet, back and forth - often using his hands - occasionally spraying water over the entire sheet to momentarily activate the dry media.

“Who I Really Am" by LeeNora Parlor 

Artist Statement: 

I create paintings of my family (ancestors), other beings and abstracts that reflect ‘glimpses’ of life and depict ‘who I really am”.  The ‘Transforming Power’ of art, gifts each piece in my collection with a compelling record of individuality yet illustrates a oneness with all humanity.  My work is embedded with fragmented scenes of the distant and not so distant past, and gives expression to my inner vision of ‘who I really am’.  By portraying ‘different moments’ in life, I hope to show joy peace, and delicate sadness mixed with pure emotion; creating a truly spiritual sense to the art of ‘simple living’.  I believe that my art is a healing medium because it invokes nostalgia and inspires a feeling that ‘time is suspended’.  As a self-taught artist, I have discovered that the lessons taught to me by the Universe leave an indelible impression; enabling me to draw from that source at anytime, allowing for a freedom of expression that is completely pure