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Virginia McKinley
Moonlight and Magnolias
Mixed media sculpture; small table-top cabinet with an enclosed hand-printed and painted pop-up
Virginia McKinley retired from the Vice President’s position at Warren Wilson College and is now taking more time to seriously pursue her interest in art and music. She is a largely self-taught artist, benefiting from a very good art history course and an equally good studio art course in a California public high school in the 1960s. There she was introduced to and practiced working with a variety of visual arts media. She moved to Western North Carolina in 1980 and audited informal life drawing classes and the senior art portfolio course while at Warren Wilson College. She has recently taken classes at BookWorks in Asheville.
She has contributed pieces to a number of auctions and has shown her work at Holy Ground in Asheville, at the Warren Wilson Store formerly in the Grove Arcade, at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Café in Asheville and at the Holden Gallery in Swannanoa. Virginia serves on the board of the Affordable Housing Coalition and the Advisory Council to the President of the Appalachian College Association.
I like the fact that both children and adults tend to react with surprise and delight to pop-ups. I hope that the funds generated by the 2008 Doors of Asheville benefit auction will open equally surprising and delightful possibilities for home ownership in what can be a long and not always joyful process to realize the dream of owning a home of one’s own.
