Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 30, 1993 TAG: 9304300313
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
Eddy and Jeanette Stephens, C&S owners, will be occupying the space on Main Street that formerly housed the combined offices of Pulaski Main Street Inc. and state Sen. Malfourd "Bo" Trumbo, which are moving a few doors away.
The couple has more than seven years of experience in custom picture framing and has been offering the area's largest selection of local and national artists.
One artist whose work has been featured by C&S is P. Buckley Moss, who will visit later this year to autograph her art and promote her charity work.
The grand opening of Main Street Galleries in Pulaski will be May 29, with visits during the day by artists Jordi Calvera, Cameron Church, Myrt Nissen and Ernie Ross.
Calvera, a native of Spain who got his training in Venezuela, has landscapes in private and corporate collections in many countries in Europe and Latin America in addition to the United States.
He and his wife have lived in Blacksburg for 12 years and he has captured scenes from Southwest Virginia on canvas.
Church, a Canadian, came to the area in 1948 and played baseball for the Radford Rockets. His interest in painting rekindled in the 1960s and he has been traveling and painting full time for six years.
Nissen and her husband, Harry, had come to the New River Valley seeking a place to retire. They chose Pulaski, where Myrt Nissen set up a studio. Her landscapes and rural scenes have won several awards.
Ross was born in the Virginia mountains at Shorts Creek in Carroll County. He grew up in Colorado, where he won his first art show in fifth grade. While living in the West, he became interested in Native American art.
by CNB