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March 19, 2025

Clyde Jones Folk Artist

Clyde Jones on a Critter

Learn About Chatham County’s Clyde Jones Clyde: His life, his art (the early years) ClydeFEST and community building through Chatham Arts Council Restoration of the ClydeFEST Mural Other ways to… Read More →

By Andrea Akin | Filed Under: Artist Close-Up, ClydeFEST | Tagged With: Clyde, Clyde Jones, clydeFEST, Critter, Critterville

June 23, 2018

Meet This Artist: Sculptor Hamidou Sissoko

Written by guest blogger, Elisabeth Lewis Corley. Hamidou Sissoko found his way to Chatham County in search of an affordable house in which to raise a family. The path he… Read More →

By Lesley Landis | Filed Under: Meet this Artist, Slideshow Featured | Tagged With: blacksmith, folkart, Mali, nature, recycling, sculptor, welding, whimsical

August 31, 2016

Meet This Artist: Sculptor Eddie White is exploring on a large scale

Sculptor Eddie White starts with a piece of paper or a thin sheet of plastic. He cuts intricate lines – sometimes parallel, sometimes curved – and carefully twists the ribs apart…. Read More →

By Bett Wilson Foley | Filed Under: Meet this Artist | Tagged With: Artist, Chatham County, Come Out & Play Sculpture Show, Creative Process, North Carolina, Public Art, sculptor, sculpture, Silk Hope, steel

February 17, 2015

JR Butler

By JR Butler | |

November 29, 2014

Travis Cohn

By Travis Cohn | |

October 29, 2014

Reptire Designs

By Travis Cohn | |

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