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Mr. Tommy Moorehead is the director/artist in residence of Heritage Hall Museum in Talladega, Alabama. In this capacity, he coordinates all of the museum’s educational programming and the yearly calendar of rotating exhibits in the main galleries of Heritage Hall. Mr. Moorehead has been affiliated with the Alabama State Arts Council for over 25 years as an artist in education and has taught all over the state in both long and short term residencies. He serves on the Sarah Carlisle Towery Art Colony Board, and is a member of The Watercolor Society of Alabama.
While at Ringling School of Art at Sarasota, Florida, Mr. Moorehead became fascinated with the techniques of transparent watercolor painting and for years after school worked exclusively in this medium. The freedom and looseness of his drawing style transferred into his painting. In the early years, his major inspirations were Andrew Wyeth, John Singer Sergeant and Winslow Homer. After returning to Alabama, and studying the art of his own state, he became captivated with the work of regionalist, Kelly Fitzpatrick and the photographers who came south during the depression to document the plight of the working man. For thirty years the majority of his paintings possessed a subtle hint of social realism reflecting the work of his heroes, such as Walker Evans, but today, he works mostly in oil, painting whatever “strikes his fancy.”
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