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Preciously repurposed

Posted on August 8, 2023, by Loretto Community

Published by The Oldham Era on July 28, 2023

“A Crestwood artist has been chosen for a summer residency that will have her painting at the Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx. Marcia Holloway Ross was selected to take part in the program, which is a partnership between Sisters of Loretto and the Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW).

“She grabbed the program’s attention with her visually stunning abstract watercolor and acrylic pieces, along with the fact that she often uses her kids’ discarded artworks as starting points.

“The Loretto Residency program was open to feminist, social change artists and writers, and is for ‘artists who have demonstrated achievement in creating work high in artistic merit that is based on social justice issues and concerns,’ a KFW press release says.”

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