Interview with Sharman Chapman-Crane, January 6, 2011
Project: Artists of Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change Oral History Project
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Sharman Chapman-Crane discusses growing up in Worcester, Ohio, early experiences with art education, her father's family being from Kentucky, and studying at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. She also discusses her adult involvement with the arts: painting a mural in a nursing home, teaching 7th and 8th grade art through Christian Services Ministries - making masks and using recycled materials, and exhibiting these at Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky. She discusses her own environmental activism, both through her art and through Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.Interview Accession
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Chapman-Crane, Sharman Interview by Joy Gritton. 06 Jan. 2011. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Chapman-Crane, S. (2011, January 06). Interview by J. Gritton. Artists of Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Chapman-Crane, Sharman, interview by Joy Gritton. January 06, 2011, Artists of Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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