October 26, 2024 - December 15, 2024

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Meet the Artist Reception
Thursday, November 14 | 5 - 6:30 PM

M. Monica Lord is an emerging artist who is developing her painting skills and exploring her creative vision. She works primarily in oils, focusing on representational work inspired by life in Florida, the mountains of western North Carolina and memories and photographs from her early childhood in Cuba. Some of her recent work is narrative or surreal, depicting figures or subjects in real or imagined landscapes and settings. She is currently exploring abstract painting.

From early childhood, she had an interest in drawing and painting. She went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Trinity College in Washington, DC, where she focused on drawing, painting, photography, art history and visual communications. Since 2018, she has continued to take classes and workshops in oil painting at Florida State University, Penland School of Craft, Hickory Museum of Art and other venues, where she can work with and learn from other painters.

She recently retired from a 30-year career in Marketing Communications and lives with her husband, Manley K. Fuller III, in Hickory and Crawfordville (Tallahassee area), Florida.

Meet Your Neighbor is an opportunity to see someone you may know in the community in a different light. You may know Martha and see her at HMA events, but did you know that she is an artist?