Artist Profile

Mary Sterner Lawson

Mary Sterner Lawson, who specializes in watercolors, acrylic, and rapid ink portrait sketches, experiments in style and technique and features regional, national and international scenes. Contact her at Have Pen Will Travel Studio, 8913 Winged Foot Drive, Tallahassee, 32312, MaryL11@aol.com, 893-2711(h) or 445-3901(c).

Artwork Description

Destroyed by a 1994 flood, these two old-time structures depicted here were once the hub of an African-American community in SW Georgia. Response to this painting led to a massive oral history project and book, June Bug's Grocery and the Cornfield Jook: A South Albany Oral History, published by Arcadia Press.