33 years of Collecting from Artists

Marcia Weber visited

wonderful artists while collecting their art

Marcia with Mose Tolliver on his porch in Montgomery, Alabama

Marcia and Mose Tolliver

B F Perkins and Marcia

Marcia and Woodie Long in his Garden

Judy Hoffman visits with Woodie and Dot Long

Lonnie Holley in 1992 at his home near the Birmingham airport

Lonnie Holley at the “Yo”, temporary home

Chris Clark with Lonnie Holley’s son, Kubra

Clark Weber with Hope Atkinson outside her Wisconsin tile barn

“Hope’s House,” 120 year old home, restored to be an artists’ shelter

and a MWAO gallery location 2005-2012

Hope Atkinson, artist in residence at “Hope’s House”

Hope Atkinson with Paulette Riley’s award winning painting of her in New York

Hope’s House needed a lot of TLC and restoration

Nearly completed restoration of Hope’s House

Open House Reception at Hope’s House in Ashford, Alabama

Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Marcia and Toto

Jimmie Lee and his first cousin, C Boy Sudduth on the steps of Jimmie’s old house

Jimmie Lee and C Boy with Jimmie’s new house far left

Jimmie Lee and Marcia

Marcia and Jimmie Lee in his studio

Thornton Dial and Marcia visit in his home on 15th Street in Bessemer, 1991.

Annie Lucas at home painting

Ab the Flagman at his Atlanta studio

Nik Fernandez with Charlie Lucas

Bernice Sims and Charlie Lucas at Bernice’s house

LeRoy Almon with Marcia, Sarah Rakes and LeRoy’s wife and son

The beautiful road to visit Ruth Robinson

Ruth and one of her paintings

Ruth and her cat painting on her front porch

James Harold Jennings near Pinnacle, North Carolina

Anne Buffum

Anne Grgich painting

Pak Nichols at Hope’s House artists’ shelter/MWAO gallery