TANKSLEY

TANKSLEY Middletown Emerging Music: Contemporary Performance By: Gail Obenreder “Life – an abundance of trials, beauties, and poems wrapped in moments of never ending discovery.” Singer, composer, and writer TANKSLEY wakes up each morning “awaiting soul, a story or chord that perfectly imitates an emotional premise.” Inspiration can be fleeting: “The drive that turns lights […]

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Katie West

Katie West Wilmington Emerging Visual Arts: Photography By: Gail Obenreder “I aim to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary, finding and sharing beauty in things we might walk past every day.” Katie West learned early in life about the power of images. Her father, an electrical engineer, was “an incredible amateur photographer” with a darkroom […]

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Leanna Thongvong

Leanna Thongvong Dover Emerging Folk Art: Visual Arts By: Gail Obenreder “My work embodies those around me. I use my art to preserve and express the Laotian/Cambodian American narrative.” Leanna Thongvong is passionate about her art and proud of the resilient community it reflects. Her family’s American story began in the 1970s and 1980s, when “our Lao/Khmer community […]

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