- Title
- Our State
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- Date
- October 2000
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Our State
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Breeze at my
Window by Peg
Gignoux
Fiber artist Peg Gignoux and
Hickory composer-m-resi-
dence J. Mark Scearce view
Breeze at my Window.
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for display during the concerts.
Scearcc notes that The Quilling
Project blends far more than fabric —
it weaves together creative young minds
and established arts institutions. “Some
of the adults are hard to change,” he
says, "but the kids — they'll change
you!” The project has binned the
boundaries In-tween visual art and per-
fonnance music and created the kind
of lasting beauty that springs from the
hearts and minds of children.
Candace Tip/iett Inn in ('.rnnite Falls.
As this issue was going In
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, ur learned
dial J. Mmk Sceane has left his residency to
leach composition al the College of Music al
the Unhmitf of North Texas. IVr wish him
the lies I of success in his future endeavors.
Artists of
HV I ANNE BRANDON
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Doss
Forsytli County native David E. Doss
didn’t have to give up his down-home
roots to gain fame far and wide. The
realist watercolorist still lives in the
Piedmont, where he draws his inspira¬
tion for the detailed rustic scenes that
have gained a national and interna¬
tional audience.
U.S. Art magazine, the largest art
print publication in the country, has
dubbed the Pfafftown resident an
“artist to watch,” and lie’s a frequent
exhibitor in New York galleries. He is
listed as a fx-st-selling artist for open-
edition publisher Bruce McGaw
Graphics of West Nyack. New York,
and his prints are collected widely.
Doss prefers watercolor as a medi¬
um because of the vivid colors he can
portray on canvas. A gaze at his care¬
ful rendering of an old window box is
proof enough of his ability to turn the
ordinary into the extraordinary The
artist depicts what he knows best, and
as a result the beauty of the Piedmont
region Is being appreciated in homes
and businesses across America.
Doss has been painting since he was
a small child. In 1986. at the age of 21.
he decided to pursue his dream full-
time and quit his job as a commercial
artist, and went into business for him¬
self. As time has shown, it was a wise
move. 1 1 is sensitive interpretations
have drawn much attention, and he
has been recognized and honored by
many organizations for his contribu¬
tions to the art world.
Doss also uses his art to support
nonprofit causes. He painted Salem
Remembered to help raise- funds for the
restoration of Old Salem after storms
in 1989 caused significant tree dam¬
age to the Winston-Salem landmark.
Doss produced a run of 2.000 signer!
and numbered prints of the painting.
Profits from the sale resulted in a
$100,000 contribution to the
Frederick William Marshall Society.
quilts, the musical work is in
three sections — the angular
“Window's.” the 10 variations of
“Album.” and the abstract
"Parade."
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Scearce returned to one of
the schools. Mountain View
Elementary in Catawba County,
to show the students an enlarge¬
ment of the finished composi¬
tion. 1 1c pointed out where
each of their "quilts” started and
stopped and had them sign their names
with colored markers.
"We ended up with a very colorful
score." savs Ada Smith, music specialist
for the school. As one might expect from
active youngsters, percussion plays a sig¬
nificant pan in “Zigzag.” John Gordon
Ross, music director and conductor for
the Western Piedmont Symphony, savs
the piece is "pretty extroverted" with ele¬
ments of jazz and rock *n* roll ;ls well as
serious 20th-century techniques. “Zigzag"
premiered in February to a parked audi¬
torium of private and home-schooled
c hildren at the Arts and Science < '-enter
of the Catawfu \ alley, and in the spring,
the Chamber Orchestra of the Western
Piedmont Symphony presented “Zigzag"
in its performance schedule. The musi¬
cians brought the fabric quills with them
30 Our Slate October 2000
