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Art lovers can see different Southern scenes
Jeff Whetstone and John Cleaveland display work at UNG galleries
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This painting is part of John Cleaveland’s exhibit “Constructing the Past,” which opens Feb. 19 in the Roy C. Moore Art Gallery at the University of North Georgia Gainesville campus. The exhibit may be viewed for free until March 25.
Southern landscapes will be the focus of two exhibits in February at the University of North Georgia, including work from a Guggenheim-award winning photographer. Jeff Whetstone, a 2007 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, will present at the Feb. 12 opening of the “2015 Appalachia Here and Now” exhibit at UNG. Other recipients of Guggenheim fellowships, given to assist research and artistic creation, have included poets laureate and Nobel prize winners. Whetstone will talk about his award-winning body of work “New Wilderness” at 5 p.m. Feb. 12 in the Hoag Auditorium on UNG’s Dahlonega campus.