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?Nothing happened to me like it happened to anybgdy else?
she tells ?stories that I know?
Photographs by Kevin Webster
From tomboy to teacher to folk artist, Alice Moseley translates the lessons of her rich life into colorful paintings. At 92, the former Memphidn is the subject of an educational video to be distributed to Mississippi schools and libraries.
By Michael Donahue
donahue@gomemphis.com
RAY ST. LOUIS, Miss.?
earing a red cap over her white hair, Alice Moseley, 92, tends her orange ginger lilies in front of her royal blue house. Her brown dog, Herman, darts about the green grass.
Inside, Moseley?s house is filled with her folk art paintings and prints of little boys in tire swings, little girls in white party dresses, spotted dogs, one-room schools, bright red barns, daffodils and life. All of them are simply painted in rich hues.
Moseley, a former Memphian who moved to Bay St. Louis 14 years ago, admits her life has been as colorful as her surroundings and her canvasses. "Nothing happened to me like it happened to anybody else,? she said. "That?s one reason why it sounds like it's made up.?
Her work has appeared in art shows and museum exhibits throughout the South. People constantly visit her home/studio to purchase prints.
1\vo of her paintings are in the permanent collection of the Sarah Gillespie Gallery at William Carey College in Gulfport. Of Moseley?s work, Sarah Gillespie, who lives in Hattiesburg, said, ?It?s delightful. It?s childlike and yet it isn t. Everything she does, there?s a story behind them. You see them and it?s like you know these people. It?s just an affinity.? Jerry Dixon, who has shown Moseley?s work at his Serenity Gallery in Bay St. Louis, is another fan of Moseley?s work. "It?s innocent and gives her view of how things happened, what the past was like,? he said. ?And I diink she has a wonderful view.
"She says to me, ?Art is communication,? and I believe she communicates through her art. And she?s pretty good at talking, too.?
Moseley is the subject of an upcoming educational video produced by Destination & Educational Videos, a nonprofit
Moseley says her paintings grow out of "things that have happened." This is Great Oaks from t Little Acorns. j	.
In 1988, a decade after her husband's death, Moseley moved from Enid Lake to Bay St.
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New York Times News Service
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