Taking a look at the color and art of Minnie Evans

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY)– “She did it passionately everyday of her life as a need to create,” said September Krueger, Curator of Education and Public Programs at Cameron Arts Museum.

Amazing and beautiful, those are just a few words that people say when seeing the colorful art of Minnie Evans.

Evans is an African American artist who worked as a gatekeeper at Airlie Gardens from 1916-1974. Evans is famous for most of her paintings being drawn with wax crayons, and many of her pieces being drawn in symmetry…

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