Cades Cove landscape by Lisa Bell is 2 by 3 inches.
Grape cluster in watercolor by Sally Fleming.After moving more than 500 miles from Chicago to retire in Spring City, Tenn., artist Sally Fleming found a new set of friends filled with Southern hospitality.
Not only did the Community Artist League of Athens welcome her into the fold at the first meeting she attended two years ago, she was impressed by members’ willingness to use their talents for community service projects such as painting banners for Athens’ downtown square or providing art for the town’s E.G. Fisher Library.
“I have painted, drawn, potted or sculpted since I was very little and I am 72,” says Fleming. “This is one of the most outgoing leagues there is. It’s an enriched group of people who I find a lot in common with.
“When you move from one area to another and finally get a chance to do what you’ve always wanted to do for the rest of your life, they are a neat and exciting people to be amongst.”
Fleming is one of 20 league members – roughly half the membership -who will be exhibiting in “The Small Works & Miniature Show and Sale,” which opens with a community reception on Nov. 16 in the Fisher Library. The show will hang through the end of December.