LOCAL VISION CONTINUED - Porte Crayon Museum of Art
Inspire through the story of WV and her artistic heritage
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MISSION: Develop a world class art museum where people can be exposed to great art created by artists once living in/or working in West Virginia in addition to home of the Synergism Art Movement collection of art from the Heatwole private collection. The museum collection will be started with the Heatwole collection and with artistic loans, or gifts, from local and state agencies that have art collections or pieces of art significant to the area or state. Other works of art may be given to the museum via private donors.
PROBLEM: There is no museum in the area that is specifically dedicated to memorializing the historical impact that West Virginia has had on the arts and celebrating the major artists that have lived and/or worked in West Virginia.
SOLUTION: Create the Porte Crayon Museum of Art. The name given to this museum is specifically dedicated to the pen name used by the once local resident artist David Hunter Strother aka Port Crayon who was a nationally known artist during the 1800’s.
The museum would feature a permanent collection of 20th and 21st century art including works of significance to West Virginia and the northern panhandle of the state. A room or wing would be dedicated to the art and story of David Hunter Strother.
PROBLEM: There is no museum in the area that is specifically dedicated to memorializing the historical impact that West Virginia has had on the arts and celebrating the major artists that have lived and/or worked in West Virginia.
SOLUTION: Create the Porte Crayon Museum of Art. The name given to this museum is specifically dedicated to the pen name used by the once local resident artist David Hunter Strother aka Port Crayon who was a nationally known artist during the 1800’s.
The museum would feature a permanent collection of 20th and 21st century art including works of significance to West Virginia and the northern panhandle of the state. A room or wing would be dedicated to the art and story of David Hunter Strother.
Currently there is no monument to David H. Strother in his home town.
STEP 1: Create a monument to the artist. In a prominent place with a marker and directions to the location of the museum.
STEP 2: Install a board of directors for the museum.
STEP 3: Set up a temporary housing for the museum, and start building up collections.
STEP 4: Purchase property for permanent museum.
BUILDING THE COLLECTION
The collection will be built in a number of ways starting with the long term loan of the Heatwole Energy and Synergy art collection. Art Collector David F. Heatwole has amassed a fairly large collection of art centered around what he believes will be recognized as the art movement of his generation. This collection features art by artists from all over the world and has to do with the topics of Energy and Synergy two sister movements. Heatwole, in addition to collecting the work has also written about the movement in a number of documents. The one that is in the Library of Congress Archives was a catalog published for the United States of Energy exhibition held at the Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick MD.
Heatwole has also spotted a number of other prominent works of art that he would propose the museum board attempt to secure for the museum. Heatwole also is campaigning to raise money to purchase important works for the museum by artists that were associated with the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia.
Heatwole has also spotted a number of other prominent works of art that he would propose the museum board attempt to secure for the museum. Heatwole also is campaigning to raise money to purchase important works for the museum by artists that were associated with the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia.