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spotlight on them,? he said.
He explained that most of the existing galleries he found when he moved to Bay St. Louis featured a single artist or perhaps two artists rather than a variety of works.
?I recognized this the first Christmas after I had opened my shop, when I was vice-president of the Downtown Business Association,? added Dixon, explaining that the association had decided that particular year to ask local artists to paint holiday scenes on large wooden placards. The results were hung from lamp posts along Main Street or mounted in front of downtown businesses.
?We asked these people on Thursday and by Sunday we had all these placards.?
In addition to learning something about the number of
work is inspirational in style.
Peter Ewalt, whose gallery is called Creations in Stained Glass, specializes in custom design work in beveled and etched glass as well as stained^ glass. He designs work for eaph individual client and oversees installation, but he produces smaller stained and beveled items in addition to the larger pieces for doors, windows and other decorating work. ' ' *
Lucille Luke creates original designs for pine needle baskets1 and will demonstrate her craft during the tour. One of her pre-., vious demonstrations took her to the New Orleans World?s Fair in 1984. Currently, she is? teaching various crafts at the Senior Citizens Center in Bay? St. Louis.
Using acrylics and waterco^ lors to paint Gulf Coast seaS^j capes and wildlife, Nadiiiej