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Artist donates prints for new Health Sciences Center

A print by Constanza Knight depicts Bearwallow Mountain.

By Bill Moss, Published: November 21, 2016

Artist and printmaker Costanza Knight is donating eight paintings depicting well-known Henderson County vistas and valleys to Wingate University to be displayed in the Health Sciences Center. 

The monotypes were printed on a press the artist acquired through a Regional Artist Project grant funded by the Arts Council of Henderson County.

Dr. Kurt Wargo, regional dean of Wingate University Hendersonville, praised the work.

“When I first met Ms. Knight and saw her portfolio of this work, I knew there would be no better place to display it than on our floor of the Health Sciences Center," he said. He called the artwork a “beautiful representation of many areas of Henderson County, a place Wingate University is so grateful to call home. We are humbled and honored to have been her choice to receive it.”

Included in the series are views of Bearwallow Mountain, Hollabrook Dairy in Fletcher, Couch Mountain in Fletcher, Squaw Kiss Valley and Folly’s Creek in Etowah, the old Shipman farm on Greenville Highway, the Hammond (Spring Hill) farm in Etowah, Bonnie Brae Estate entrance on Blue Ridge Road in Flat Rock and the mountain bog along Martin Luther King Boulevard.

Rather than selling them individually, Knight kept all eight of the monotypes together with the hope of finding an appropriate place to exhibit them as a series. When she learned about the construction of the Health Sciences Center, she thought it would be an excellent location for their display. She says that she hopes this encourages the planners of the building to follow the lead of the Henderson County Courthouse during its planning stages and budget funds for installation of more local artists’ artwork.

The prints will be ready for viewing at the grand opening of the Health Sciences Center on Tuesday, Nov. 29, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.