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December 5, 2024

INside OWE Arts & Culture: Trevor Percario

Trevor Percario is something of a prodigy. At 23, he is already an accomplished pianist and musician playing gigs in bands and as a solo act across the region. As prodigies typically do, Trevor started young. At five, he was playing music with his nine-year-old brother. On one occasion, his father was showing his older... Read More

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November 6, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Cali Earp

For artist Cali Earp, it was her love of animation that initiated her journey to become an artist. As a child, Cali was fascinated by old-school anime, classic Disney, Marvel comics and the like. She taught herself to draw as she attempted to recreate cartoon and anime characters. She practiced at home and at school,... Read More

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October 4, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Cullen Libby

Cullen Libby has been a creative for as long as she can remember. Growing up, she was deeply interested in interior and fashion design, sewing, crafting, visual arts, music, and dance. Her visits to the local library would often result in large stacks of books that would further inform her on these different disciplines of... Read More

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September 12, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Vintage Silk

Danville residents Dave Shilling and Jeanie Bell have been performing together as Vintage Silk since 2012. Dave, a native of Michigan, lived in Texas for a time before moving to Culpeper, Virginia. Jeannie grew up in Alexandria but moved away for a time, living in Maryland and Florida before returning to Virginia. The stars aligned... Read More

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August 6, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Meesha Walker

It wasn’t in art class that Meesha Walker first discovered and began to develop her artistic talent, but rather during her other classes, when she would find herself doodling in the margins of her notebooks. Those class-time doodles began to extend to lunch breaks and other free time. When anime became popular again in the... Read More

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July 9, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Chris Stovall

Chris Stovall was born into a musical family. His father was a jazz musician and his mother, a vocalist, also liked to draw. With this background, Chris, a visual artist, illustrator, and muralist, is both inspired and motivated by music. “I’m a musically based creator,” Chris told us regarding his creative process. “I enter into... Read More

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June 6, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Jessica Driver

Jessica Driver grew up surrounded by creative and outside-of-the-box thinkers. Her parents were both avid “scrappers” who regularly sought out and found unwanted items and, seeing the potential in them, turned them into something new and loved. Her cousins, too, with whom she was raised, were and are, all of them, artists in their own... Read More

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May 7, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Hannah Barker

As a young child, Hannah Barker had the insatiable urge to create. She loved to draw, read, and write, and she even created a newspaper that she taped to her family’s refrigerator. It wasn’t until her senior year at UVA that she landed upon her medium of choice—embroidery. During the summer before her senior year,... Read More

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April 9, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Clevester Terrell Woods

A native of Danville, Clevester Terrell Woods was introduced to art as a child in Pittsylvania county schools. Terrell first realized his gift when, as a first grade student, he was given the assignment to draw one of his favorite cartoon characters. Terrell drew Mickey Mouse from memory. Upon doing so, his teacher was so... Read More

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March 8, 2024

Inside OWE Arts & Culture: Harper Scollo

Harper Scollo could hardly have helped but become an artist. Her father, a well-known potter, photographer, and painter, and her mother, a jeweler and knitter, are both artists and, throughout Harper’s childhood, were constantly occupied in their artistic endeavors. “I grew up in a household where someone was always creating something,” Harper told us. Besides... Read More

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