Wilkes Co. artist Delores McAvoy set to return for W-W arts foundation's ArtFest November 4

Last year's ARTFEST winner Dolores McAvoy (center) with (from left) Arts Foundation President Lou Ricciuti, stained glass artist Susan Stanley. McAvoy, potter Lynette Wood, and Debbie Wells.

Last November, Delores McAvoy was the delighted winner of $1000 when she was awarded "Best of Show" in the Washington-Wilkes Arts Foundation ArtFest for her booth of oil and acrylic paintings. An independent Georgia sculptor was invited to be an impartial judge of the show. An additional seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) in cash prizes was also awarded to other artists participating in the show.

This year the W-WAF will again jury the artwork, selecting only the pictures, arts, and crafts that it believes belong in this Fall's Washington ArtFest. Again there will be $1750 in cash prizes awarded to the artists selected to have the best work. The 2007 Art Show on The Square in Washington will be held on Saturday, November 3, 2007, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Delores McAvoy is a long-time Georgia artist and art teacher, but she wasn't always a southern belle. Now well known for her oil and acrylic paintings, McAvoy started drawing early in life copying pictures from her school books in her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio.

People and animals were her first subjects. When she was in the fifth grade she enlarged her artistic vision by visiting art museums around her Ohio hometown. Later she moved with her family south to Norfolk, Virginia. In her last year of high school in Norfolk, she won a scholarship to the Atlanta Art Institute.

McAvoy moved to Georgia to attend the Art Institute in Atlanta. There she met another art student, Holice McAvoy of Washington, Ga. This fateful meeting would determine her future and make Georgia her permanent home, for they soon married and moved to the town of Washington in 1956. Delores started teaching at Wilkes Academy in 1971 and has continued teaching until this day, having an art studio on The Square in Washington where she teaches art to students of all ages.

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