I just lately acquired an e-mail from an in depth good friend with a hyperlink to a newspaper article from the Cheboygan (Michigan) Each day Tribune. It was a really good article about Jaykob Wooden who occurs to be the present director of the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum. The article gave an excessive amount of background about Mr. Wooden, however once I neared the tip of the article, I used to be distressed to learn his feedback concerning the artist Lucia Wiley and the way “she had by no means been represented on the museum” and so Mr. Wooden stated he curated an exhibit of her work for show that’s now on mortgage to town of Tillamook.

Had Mr. Wooden finished his analysis about TCPM in addition to Sister Lucia, he would have found that the museum had, certainly, displayed her work at a summer-long exhibit over a decade in the past. The artifacts on show included her highschool commencement gown, a lot of her childhood art work, and sketches for the mural on the Tillamook Metropolis Corridor (previously the US Put up Workplace) which was commissioned throughout her work for the WPA. It additionally included work and designs for the mural on the Tillamook County Courthouse. The truth is, when my husband Gary Albright was the Director of TCPM, he was approached by then- County Commissioner Mark Labhart to restore harm finished by vandals and contractors to the Courthouse mural. These repairs had been achieved, and the fresco cleaned, in 2010.