© 2024 WUTC
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Portraits of Appalachia in Words and Watercolor

Alan Shuptrine is a realist painter, a watercolorist, fascinated with Appalachia. For the past two years he has walked along sections of the Appalachian Trail, frequently leaving the trail to hike into the isolated towns and hamlets deep in the mountains off the trail. In addition to painting the people he’s met and the places he’s seen, he is collaborating with a writer on a coffee table book which will combine his paintings with stories about Appalachian people, their culture and their long history.

The paintings will also be part of a traveling exhibition that will have its premiere in Nashville in the Summer of 2017. When Richard Winham talked to Alan Shuptrine, he told him he fully expects this project to absorb him for the rest of his life.
 

Richard Winham joined WUTC five years after the station began broadcasting to the Chattanooga area and the Tennessee Valley.