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Speaking with a soft, North Carolina lilt in a voice suggesting a genteel lady 50 years younger than her stated age, White nevertheless, has seen a lot of history. And like the warm mothers in Father Knows Best and Leave It to Beaver, she has floated above the unpleasant parts, focusing on family and the simple pleasures of life.
Along the way, she has also found a creative outlet that on her way to 100, still brings her the joy of making something new.
Born in Jacksonville, just before the crash that brought on the Great Depression, White learned about what happens when jobs disappear. Her family moved back to a grandfather’s North Carolina farm to weather the next years. “We had plenty to eat from the land,” she says, almost wistfully. Her father got a WPA job and her mother taught her to can food and master other “womanly” arts, like crocheting and sewing.
Past Visiting Artists
By Macey Davis for The Island Connection
The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston is now presenting a new exhibition of works by past visiting artists in the Ruth and Bill Baker Art Sales Gallery.
“Mementos Entwined: The Sentimental Art of Hairwork,” by Gina Iacovelli and “How it Was…Charleston in 1963,” by Andrea Hazel are on display and available to shop until Feb. 7, 2021.
Iacovelli was an artist in residence at the Gibbes Museum from Oct. 26 to Nov. 22, 2020. While at the Gibbes, she demonstrated hairwork and weave techniques on her homemade braiding table, while sharing her research into hairwork history and how it was shaped by evolving concepts of life and death. “Mementos Entwined” explores sentimental tokens and the deeply rooted connection between life and death.
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