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Beyond the Quilt: Textile Artists

Quinn Hawkesworth is best known as an actress and storyteller. She has taken her "art" as an actress to another level — creating a series of wall hangings.

In This Issue

• Extreme Quilting Rich color, strong contrast, and sculptural quilting characterize Cindi Huss's work. Her three-dimensional wall hangings are accomplished through techniques ranging from needle felting to machine quilting, using materials such as wool roving and hand-dyed
• Elaborate Wall Hangings Although Sylvia Richardson's quilts have won international acclaim, she only recently started selling her work.
• Youth Spotlight: Danielle Armstrong Danielle Armstrong, 22, has been winning awards in literature, but — most interestingly — she has been combining literary works with visual art.
• Angela Wampler Leaving A! Magazine How do you say good-bye to a colleague and friend who is retiring? It's always hard, especially to someone who has been absolutely essential to an organization.

A! Extra

• Review: "Oklahoma!" Rogers and Hammerstein gave the world many wonderful musicals, but arguably one of their best and most memorable is "Oklahoma!" Who doesn't know, for instance, at least a few lines of "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!," "The Surry With The Fringe on Top" or
• Review: Barter Theatre's "Legally Blonde" The Barter Theatre's big summer musical, "Legally Blonde," is bright, loud, funny and brimming with eye-candy for all genders, sure to be a hit and quite deservedly so. But, beneath the foolishness, caricatures, pink accessories and even a purse-riding Ch
• Prospecting for Reading Alpha Natural Resources coal miner Logan Bateman talks to children about coal mining Wednesday morning at the Bristol Public Library to kick off the summer reading program.
• Look for JULY A! Magazine on Wednesday, JUNE 27 Before you start celebrating Independence Day, please take time to read the JULY edition of A! Magazine available beginning Wednesday, JUNE 27. And plan now to submit press releases and to advertise in our AUGUST edition.
• Terrie Talbert Never Bored with Bristol What can you conclude about a woman who: played a leading role in establishing two of Bristol most popular attractions, the Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival and State Street Farmers Market; helped transform Viking Hall into a national performing venu
• Bristol's State of the Arts Weekend Bristol's annual downtown State of the Arts Weekend kicked off with the unveiling of a steel sculpture hailing the Twin City's famed musical roots.
• Black Cadillacs Driven by Blues Meet the grit and rock "n' roll grind of The Black Cadillacs.
• A Dandy Dozen You could fill a stage with stars who fully expected to rise to stardom. Janie Fricke would not number among them.
• Who You Callin' a "Snap-Shooter'? Buzzing around Boone Lake, Kaylynn Wilster gets lots of ideas for photographs by looking at birds and, this year, listening to the loud cicadas.
• Murals for Cultural Heritage Center It's a collaboration of art and music as Birthplace of Country Music Alliance (BCMA) and Virginia Intermont College (VIC) recently began work on massive mini-billboards that will soon hang in the boarded-up windows of the proposed BCMA Cultural Heritage C
• Review: "Looking Over the President's Shoulder" I simply have no word good enough to describe Jasper McGruder's portrayal of long-time White House butler Alonzo Fields in Barter Stage II's production of "Looking Over the President's Shoulder."
• Tadlock Receives Best in Show in National Competition More than six months of work went into Virginia Intermont College Art Professor Marvin Tadlock's latest sculpture, "Got Oil?" which recently received Best in Show honors at the Art in Public Places exhibit, a program of the Dogwood Arts Festival in Knoxvi