A! Magazine for the Arts Archive

Ugly cabinets lead to stained glass artistry

A dozen cabinet doors with orange plastic inserts started Marilyn Peacock's more than 35-year career as a stained glass artist.

In This Issue

• Retirement brings out new creativity for artist "Who knew that this late in life I would find the most amazing, fulfilling creative skill to fill my retirement time?"
• Donoho prefers traditional design If you've ever seen the stained glass windows in the Salem Presbyterian Church on the campus of Washington College Academy in Limestone, Tenn., then you've seen Richard Donoho's first project.
• Stained glass: step by step The picture or pattern is divided into spaces representing each individual piece of glass.
• Arts for Youth Spotlight: Trung Phan King University student Trung Phan first turned to theatre as a means of distraction.
• AAME begins new speaker series The Arts Alliance Mountain Empire, in cooperation with the Bristol Public Library, announces the AAME Speakers Series.
• King University photography students hold Help-Portrait event King University photography students hosted their fourth annual Help-Portrait event at the Bristol Public Library in downtown Bristol, Va.
• Deadlines for March issue Deadlines for the March issue of A! Magazine are:

A! Extra

• Review: Barter's Don't Cry for Me, Margaret Mitchell is a real tear jerker ABINGDON, Va. — Of course, that would be tears of laughter, not the dripping-on-a-casket kind. The year is 1939: the location Hollywood.
• Charles Vess: 'I want to tell stories from my heart' Paint clung to the tip of the bristles of Charles Vess' paintbrush.
• Film crew set to wrap up in Sullivan County Hollywood has come to Sullivan County.
• Hometown band stoked to play on the revered Down Home stage Instead, excitement flows for Jen Rock and The Crybabies. Come Feb. 19, the Johnson City-based band will join a long and illustrious list of performers to play Johnson City's Down Home. Excited?
• Kaitlyn Baker sings record deal Recently signed Pound, Va., 19-year-old Kaitlyn Baker is celebrating success as a rising country star but still remembers her community.
• Exciting changes on the way for BCM's Wise, Va., music programming Changes are coming to the Birthplace of Country Music's summer concert programming in Wise, Va. The RTE 23 Music Festival will be held Aug. 30, on the campus of the University of Virginia's College at Wise. This one-day music event will replace the Concer
• Barter Theatre eatery renovated, renamed ABINGDON, Va. — Making the eatery at the Barter Theatre cozier and more restaurant-like was the goal of a month-long renovation to be completed next week.
• "Art with a Heart" draws a crowd at Heartwood Heartwood: Southwest Virginia's Artisan Gateway was a busy place on Saturday, where more than 50 kids turned out for the free "Art with a Heart" valentine craft workshop.
• Milligan adds majors in music business and economics Milligan College continues to expand its academic programs and opportunities by announcing the addition of two new majors―music business and economics―set to begin in fall 2014.
• Birthplace of Country Music museum on track for August opening The long-held dream of a world-class, downtown museum honoring the 1927 Bristol Sessions recordings is rapidly becoming a reality.
• Interest high among tour group operators for BCM museum Interest is growing in the new Birthplace of Country Music museum, but some details about accommodating those visitors remain unfinished.
• Museum offers snow day activities for children The third straight snow day off from school found 4-year-old preschoolers Anna Berry and Carson Harris in the basement of the William King Museum, happily drawing pictures and making paper pizzas.