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The art world and our region has lost a great one. Darcy Meeker, sculptor and creative director of The Color Project, has passed away.

We miss her and we are taking good care of her husband Jim. When Darcy passed away at the end of October he decided to host a Celebration of a Beautiful Life // Nov 19. His sister Diana, three nieces and dearest friends rallied and the event was the perfect send off befitting a Queen of Art. We laughed, cried, feasted, toasted, made new friends, sought comfort from old friends, created art, missed her there and started a plan of action for Darcy’s 2023 line up. 

Everything has changed without her here and nothing has changed without her here.

When I first met Darcy she told me that she would probably have to die to become famous like the rest of them. She took it a step further and told me about this famous, and it was not for the reasons that you would think. As her personal assistant // fine art curator and artistic director of our fabrication team I am sprinkling extra all over her body of work and the best and most high profile showings are coming up.

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Bent Mountain Center the Challenge America Grant. This is a matching grant of $10,000 from the NEA.  The community has donated $10,000 in cash as well as in-kind services from The Color Project. This grant will help launch “Arts on the Mountain”,  a program of arts, culture and education at the Center. Programming can include classes taught by local artists/artisans, music lessons, music events, theater and other educational programming for Roanoke, Floyd and Franklin county residents and beyond.