December 3, 1998

Rocky Mount, NC -- Wesleyan College is proud to announce the exhibition of Magdalene Tabrons vivid ink drawings of rural Carolina living, past and present. The Civic Gallery is in the Dunn Center for Performing Arts on the Wesleyan College Campus; gallery hours are 9 - 5 Monday through Friday. The exhibition will be on view until December 20 and from January 4 until January 15.

Tabron is self-taught and has achieved her unique drawing style with an attention to detail and texture. With imagination and personal recall, she depicts the lifestyle of African-Americans down home in the country in times gone by. The artist is a gifted story-teller in pictures; she opens a window on the way things were and the people who shaped her experiences as a child in Momeyer, N.C. Tabron offers her viewers proverbial insight to the dignity of growing up in times when people worked hard and had less.

North Carolina Wesleyan College will be purchasing a drawing from Ms. Tabrons Exhibition, "Stories To Be Told," to add to their permanent collection of local self-taught art.

All of Tabrons works are for sale; for more information contact the curator at 985-5268.