BLACKSMITH FETTY GETS FELLOWSHIP GRANT - Works On Display Around The World

(07/07/2001)
Well-known artisan and craftsman, Blacksmith Jeff Fetty has received one of 10 West Virginia Artist Fellowship Grant Awards. The grant is for $3500 for high-end custom metal work.

Fetty's work has been displayed in the Wheeling Artisan Center, the Huntington Museum of Art and dozens of galleries around the country.

He has completed commissioned work for President Bill Clinton, the Elizabethan Globe Theatre in London, Marshall University, Yves St. Laurent in Paris and dozens of other institutions.

The current fellowship is awarded by the West Virginia Division of Culture and History and the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.

Fetty's home page with his work can be viewed from the LINKS page on The Hur Herald. Fetty's family sprung from the waters of the lower West Fork near Richardson.