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DATE: MONDAY, June 11, 1990                   TAG: 9006120120
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FOLK ART EXHIBITIONS

A related lecture series will begin on June 21, and a third exhibition of folk art will open on July 29.

Curator Tara Tappert said the museum is trying to reflect both the national appreciation for folk art and the prominent place of such art in the Appalachian region of which the museum is a part.

"I suspect we will continue doing shows that deal with folk themes," she said.

The exhibits opening on Thursday are "Miles Carpenter: A Second Century" and "Fine Folk: Art 'N' Facts From the Rural South." The shows were organized, respectively, by Radford University's Flossie Martin Gallery and the Piedmont Arts Association in Martinsville.

Objects from the museum's own collection of folk art also will be shown.

Simon J. Bronner will launch the museum's Contemporary Folk Art Lecture Series. His topic is "I Hate To See Something Plain: Environmental Artists and their Worlds."

Dr. Bronner is professor of folklore and American studies at the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg and Capitol College in Middleton, Pa.

He will speak June 21 at 7 p.m. in the museum's Morgan/Sovran Lecture Hall. The price of admission is $3 for museum members and $4 for nonmembers. The lecture hall is on the second floor of Center on Church at 20 Church Ave.

Coming to the museum on July 29 is "O, Appalachia: Artists of the Southern Mountains." That exhibit is built around the work of artists who were profiled in the 1989 book of the same title by Ramona and Millard Lampell.

One of the artists is Oscar Spencer, a wood carver who lives at Blue Ridge.