Adelia Armstrong, a 19-year-old artist, was renowned for her contributions to the Knoxville art community. But she was also known for the fine portraits and still-life paintings she created in Westwood, West Virginia, her home. This site, along six other artist studios and environments, was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservations. Historic Artists Homes and Studios (HAHS) programme.
The new HAHS sites are a concerted effort by the HAHS to preserve and recognize sites associated with historically underrepresented group such as women artists like Lutz and Ginny Soldner (who, along with her husband Paul Soldner designed and built their home in Aspen, Colorado), and black artists such as Noah Purifoy (whose famed “The Greatest” series). outdoor sculpture parkJoshua Tree is a popular place for artistic pilgrimage), and James Washington, as well as LGBTQ+ artists like Eddie Owens Martin or St. EOM, who created this dazzling artistic environment PasaquanBuena Vista Georgia
Soldner Living Room with A-frames featuring Paul Soldners
Ceramics and one Ginny Soldner’s large paintings at Soldner Center
For the Arts and Innovation in Aspen Colorado Photo by Laura Hull Photography. Courtesy Stephanie Soldner
The HAHS programme includes Norman Rockwells studio, a beloved illustrator, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, as well as Robert Dashs home and studio on Madoo Island, the eastern end, of New York’s Long Island. Alejandro Saralegui, executive director of HAHS, is Madoo ConservancyThis type of support is crucial for a site in a rapidly changing environment, as noted by. Madoo is a way of living in the Hamptons that is rapidly disappearing, he stated in a statement.
The Kohler Foundation donated additional support to the two self-taught artists environments in the groupPorifoys sprawling Outdoor Desert Art Museum for Assemblage Sculpture, and Martins chromatic Pasaquan site. This will help them pay their membership dues. The Kohler Foundation is a major donor to the preservation of self taught artist environments.
The Pasaquan Kitchen in Buenavista, Georgia.
Pasaquoyans in Power Suits Levitating by Eddie Owens Martin (St.
EOM) Courtesy Columbus State University
Michael McFalls was the director of Pasaquan. He is also an art professor at Columbus State University. Martin died in 1986.
The seven new additions to the HAHS programme bring the total number at 55 artists homes, studios, and environments to 55, with locations in 25 states. They span the Home and studioDonald Judds to James Castle, Boise Idaho. BuildingManhattan and the artist Ann Weaver Nortons Home and sculpture gardenWest Palm Beach, Florida.
