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Gettysburg National Military Park's Artist-in-Residence for the month of September will be up and coming painter Ted Walsh, of Vineland, NJ. This is the last of three artists' summer residency programs available at Gettysburg National Military Park this year.
Walsh is a realist painter whose work has a touch of strange desolation and melancholy that cuts against any sort of easy nostalgia or breezy Americana.
The artist will spend the month of September at the park, working and chatting with the public as he paints in plein air. Afterward, he'll provide a public program with his works as lecture and reflection on the varied meanings and transformations over time in the laboratory of American public memory that Gettysburg represents.
Walsh, like many artists from the northeast, has been drawn to the Gettysburg Battlefield since he first went there as a child. He's always been curious about working the spirit of place of the battlefield into his own painstaking realist work.
Gettysburg Foundation President Joanne M. Hanley stated, "We are always looking for innovative ways to tell the Gettysburg story. The Artist-In-Residence program encourages visitors to think creatively and perceive the battlefield in a different way. We look forward to welcoming Ted Walsh and seeing Gettysburg National Military Park through his unique vision."
Gettysburg National Military Park is a unit of the National Park Service that preserves and protects the resources associated with the Battle of Gettysburg and the Soldiers' National Cemetery, and provides an understanding of the events that occurred there within the context of American history. Information is available at www.nps.gov/gett.
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