Tag: dolls
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Lydia Wilson+
Lydia Wilson Johnson City native Lydia Wilson was well-known for creating rustic folk art out of reused materials. Those works included her iconic sculptures, which Wilson once described as “visual voices” that reflect life struggles, social concerns, character traits and personal experiences. Using stitching, embroidery and other techniques, she was able to turn just about…
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Dr. Charles E. McGruder
Dr. Charles E. McGruder Dr. Charles E. McGruder began his education at Alabama A&M, serving in World War II in the Army Aircorps. He resumed his studies at Xavier University, and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at Meharry Medical College, graduating in 1952. Spending his career in Nashville specializing in Obstetrics & Gynecology, he…
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Aundra McCoy
Aundra McCoy Aundra McCoy grew up in a family of seamstresses and quilters, and her mixed media quilts reflect this lineage. Raised in the historic African American community of Orange Mound, Tennessee, McCoy carries on this legacy of textile arts. McCoy’s mother taught each of her children how to sew by hand and by machine.…
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Hattie Marshall-Duncan
Hattie Marshall-Duncan Self-taught sculptor Hattie Marshall-Duncan, of Jackson, turns clay and found objects into highly distinctive masterworks. As a child, she was inspired by the drawings of her father, a sharecropper who was “a folk artist, though he didn’t know it,” according to Hattie. She created art from a young age, but it was not…
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