Sculpture

Connie McNees

Connie McNees was born and raised in a cradle of art in North Carolina, between the campus of the world famous Black Mountain School of Art and Asheville, know as the ‘Paris of the South’. From childhood, Connie was an artist. As a teenager, she attended the Plonk School of Creative Arts, and later, the Charlotte College of Design, the University of North Carolina Asheville, the Memphis Academy, and Tulane University in New Orleans. After a decade as Chief Designer and Art Director for Reynolds International in NY City. She settling back in Asheville, where she open McNees Graphics Inc. and became an award-winning designer. She later began exhibiting her art and co founded The League of Carolina with Ben Long.

George Cadell

George Cadell was born and reared in Fort Cobb, a small rural town in western Oklahoma on the banks of the Washita River. At the age of ten he and his family moved from town to a farm located in fork of the Washita River and Gawkey Creek. Most of their neighbors and friends were Native Americans and White families that were descendants of the first settlers of the Fort Cobb area, then known as Washita or Big Hunt Country.

George spent hours listening to stories and legends passed down about the early days on the banks of the Washita. These early experience in his life, along with his love of wildlife and nature have played an important part in his style of art and how he approaches life today.

George and his wife Pat, now in the presence of the Lord recently moved to the mountains west of Bakersville, North Carolina. Here he works in his studio and foundry with his best critic, his wife’s spirit close at hand.