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Article: Becoming a true masterpiece: New director renovates college landmark, brings in exhibits.
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- Daily Press (Newport News, VA)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2006
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Byline: Mark St. John Erickson
Oct. 8--When Aaron De Groft began working as an intern at the Muscarelle Museum of Art during the late 1980s, he quickly became a jack-of-all- trades. In addition to conducting basic art historical research, he learned to matte, frame and hang works of art. He painted the gallery walls. He also climbed into the long, two-story vault of large colored tubes that marks the south faE*ade of the building, cleaning and refilling the eye-grabbing composition of 126 vibrant vertical stripes so it could be better seen by motorists traveling through Williamsburg on Jamestown Road. Two decades later, De Groft is back - this time as ...
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