Dolly has entered the studio and she has, but it's not her.
It's actually a painting in honor of her.
And we are talking about an amazing art show this weekend at
Webb School of Knoxville with Jennifer Moffett and one of the artists,
the featured artists, I should say Jessica Ramsey.
Good morning, ladies. Good
morning. Thank
you for
you both.
OK.
Seeing this Dolly Parton painting come into the studio was like the craziest thing.
It's huge. Jessica huge. I like a bold scale. I
say
it's a bold,
we're gonna show it here in just a moment.
We have a great shot of it over here, but it's beautiful. It's big.
You are for the first time for um this event,
the featured artists which is such a big deal.
How are you feeling
honored and grateful? Um Just really excited about this whole weekend.
Crazy.
A little bit, little
bit.
You had to paint like 60 pieces for this and
like for an artist that's a deeply creative process.
How, what has this been like? Um
It has been um
uplifting and cha challenging in a way, but like, I've really grown and it's really,
it's exciting.
Um My daughters have been a great
inspiration and
influence and it, I'm just so excited
and it's gonna be so special.
Tell us a little bit about um this whole thing happening this weekend.
So Art Extravaganza is at Webb School of Knoxville.
There's a lot of signage when you enter Webb's campus,
there's no way you can't find us.
It is Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Um Throughout the weekend, we are open tomorrow 2 to 7, Saturday, 10 to 5
or four
and Sunday 11 to 4. And so we have all kinds of artists. We have
pottery, we have painters like Jessica.
The other featured artist that we have is Tony Perin. He is a jeweler from Nashville.
And so he makes earrings and necklaces and bracelets
that
again, you're wearing some of the pieces. So he's our other featured artist.
And um we have
is the,
let's just hold that.
This is actually one of our teachers uh at Web.
So this is Mr Cantrell and he um is very uh involved with ceramics and pottery.
And so he will have a booth there.
We have over 65 juried artists that come with all
manner of different artwork and we have wood workers,
we have cloth pottery, like I said, painting water colors.
There's something for everyone at this art.
I got a piece of jewelry there a few years ago and I still wear it and still love it. OK?
We're gonna show the art. Can we show the art guys because it's amazing.
This is the big dolly piece.
Now, Jess,
you have really become known around town
for creating these beautiful dollies all over.
Gross Salon
has one. Brook
N A
FX has one.
You've done a lot of the murals at local restaurants too that don't involve dolly.
But she's kind of your signature. Yes, definitely. Talk about how that all began. Um
Well, Shane at uh Grow, he just, um, was moving and he wanted to
uh make his Dolly a little bit
bigger and grander.
And so that was my first one and it's just kind of rolled, kept going and going.
And um, it's just,
I'm just honored to do what I've been doing and it's fun to,
to do this.
She seems to be getting more fabulous too. Every, with every painting.
Sorry, what were you gonna say?
Her first year at Art Extravaganza,
she had a rather large butterfly piece that she
was painting while she was at the school.
And then a week after that, Dolly got that piece of artwork.
So it was available for everybody at Webb
and then that I painted on the news last year.
And then, um it didn't sell, I, I did have a price high
and then, um, then following Saturday, Dolly got the
Dolly herself herself.
The
painting.
That's
really
cool.
There's other artists too.
We showed that one that's not a just piece,
but that other piece was uh is Jonathan Howe.
He was our featured artist last year and he did very well.
We just had one featured artist and that's actually Lake Coma
and he's really, really talented. He will be back again this year as well.
So you can see the contrast between Jessica's work and his, we've got
so much variety there.
Well, and we should say to Jess, not all your pieces have dolly in them.
It's, it runs the gamut on and if you are looking for a cool art piece for your house,
like go check it out.
Ok. Web School of Knoxville this weekend.
Ok.
So excited
for you.
It's gonna be great. Check him out if you can and we'll be right back after this.