Oct. 2, 2008
Downtown Depot Fall Fling
By Huntingtonnews.net Staff
Huntington, WV (HNN) -- Artists and musicians will be mixing it up from 11am-1pm on Saturday, October 4 at The Downtown Depot, 401 Ninth Street Plaza.
Point Pleasant carver, Jan Haddox will be demonstrating how he carves his walking sticks; artist Barbara Delligatti will showcase her watercolor style and the Four Pole Creek String Band will provide old time music.
The multi-talented Haddox is a retired public school educator from Point Pleasant, WV but is perhaps better known as a singer-songwriter or painter of floodwall scenes in Point Pleasant. He graduated with a bachelors degree in art and a masters in School Administration from Marshall University. He has participated in the Marshall University faculty art show as well as other exhibits in WV. Recently he added painting to his other artistic expressions and his work in that medium is also available at the Depot. An exhibit featuring his paintings, which are based on personalities that roamed WV in the late to middle 1700s, was shown at the French Art Colony in Gallipolis, Ohio in August. His spirit sticks are treasured works of art and often depict the Indians that are among his favorite subjects. He is a woodcarver, painter, songwriter and musician who has written commercials for the state of WV and several area businesses. Jan says, "All my work is based on my love of WV."
Barbara Delligatti has been painting since 1985 but didn't take up watercolors until 8 years ago. After years of classes and workshops she is mostly attracted to the wet on wet style. Her favorite subjects, landscapes and flowers are rendered in an expressive and impressionistic style. A member of the Tri-State Arts Assocation, Allied Artists of WV, the Ironton Arts Accociation in Ohio and juried for Tamarack's Artisan Gallery Delligatti is the owner, manager and member of The Upstairs Gallery in Ashland, KY. She and her husband live in Ona with their two dogs.
The Four Pole Creek String Band is a group of business men and whose real passion is music. The group, formed in 2000, includes Nationwide Insurance agent Mike Webb on guitar, banjo/fiddle player Dennis Bills, who owns a warehousing company, retired school teacher Bill Kimmons on bass and Doug Stonaker, who works for the State of WV, on banjo. Webb and Bills will entertain on Saturday with music from the mountains.
The Downtown Depot is open Monday – Saturday, 10:00 – 6:00 pm. In addition to the WV artisan products, books and CDs, the store sells West Virginia food products, and souvenir items.
The store is owned and operated by Goodwill Industries and the revenue from all sales helps support the agency's many training programs for people with barriers which have prevented them from entering or re-entering the workplace.
For more information, contact Ms. Carter T. Seaton, Marketing Director at 304/525-7034.
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Downtown Depot Fall Fling
By Huntingtonnews.net Staff
Huntington, WV (HNN) -- Artists and musicians will be mixing it up from 11am-1pm on Saturday, October 4 at The Downtown Depot, 401 Ninth Street Plaza.
Point Pleasant carver, Jan Haddox will be demonstrating how he carves his walking sticks; artist Barbara Delligatti will showcase her watercolor style and the Four Pole Creek String Band will provide old time music.
The multi-talented Haddox is a retired public school educator from Point Pleasant, WV but is perhaps better known as a singer-songwriter or painter of floodwall scenes in Point Pleasant. He graduated with a bachelors degree in art and a masters in School Administration from Marshall University. He has participated in the Marshall University faculty art show as well as other exhibits in WV. Recently he added painting to his other artistic expressions and his work in that medium is also available at the Depot. An exhibit featuring his paintings, which are based on personalities that roamed WV in the late to middle 1700s, was shown at the French Art Colony in Gallipolis, Ohio in August. His spirit sticks are treasured works of art and often depict the Indians that are among his favorite subjects. He is a woodcarver, painter, songwriter and musician who has written commercials for the state of WV and several area businesses. Jan says, "All my work is based on my love of WV."
Barbara Delligatti has been painting since 1985 but didn't take up watercolors until 8 years ago. After years of classes and workshops she is mostly attracted to the wet on wet style. Her favorite subjects, landscapes and flowers are rendered in an expressive and impressionistic style. A member of the Tri-State Arts Assocation, Allied Artists of WV, the Ironton Arts Accociation in Ohio and juried for Tamarack's Artisan Gallery Delligatti is the owner, manager and member of The Upstairs Gallery in Ashland, KY. She and her husband live in Ona with their two dogs.
The Four Pole Creek String Band is a group of business men and whose real passion is music. The group, formed in 2000, includes Nationwide Insurance agent Mike Webb on guitar, banjo/fiddle player Dennis Bills, who owns a warehousing company, retired school teacher Bill Kimmons on bass and Doug Stonaker, who works for the State of WV, on banjo. Webb and Bills will entertain on Saturday with music from the mountains.
The Downtown Depot is open Monday – Saturday, 10:00 – 6:00 pm. In addition to the WV artisan products, books and CDs, the store sells West Virginia food products, and souvenir items.
The store is owned and operated by Goodwill Industries and the revenue from all sales helps support the agency's many training programs for people with barriers which have prevented them from entering or re-entering the workplace.
For more information, contact Ms. Carter T. Seaton, Marketing Director at 304/525-7034.
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