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Relocated artists are thriving after being 'blown' into area
Kinzey Branham, a longtime instructor of sculpture at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, rode out hurricane Katrina in a hundredyear old cabin. While the eye of the storm passed over, he went outside to see what had happened. Sufficiently shocked, he hunkered down, praying for his life as the storm began to rage again. As soon as he could, Branham made his way back to his hometown of Washington, and then moved more permanently to Athens where he now teaches at UGA. A noted sculptor, Branham is creating the busts of internationally known sculptors, including that of Jack Kehoe, Professor Emeritus at UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art and Director Emeritus of UGA's Cortona Study Abroad Project. Branham's work is in collections of the U.S. Marine Corps, Tulane University School of Public Health, Toccoa Falls Bible College, the Walton French Quarter Residence and Washington's Bennett emorial at Resthaven Cemetery, among many others. Lee Nelson, another Katrina Survivor, teaches a quite successful daylong workshop, The Entrepreneurial Artist, both at the Gallery classroom and at art associations in Greene County and area colleges. Topics include Your Communication Style, Sales Training, Business Plan, Cash/Budget Statement, and Marketing Strategy. Students leave with solid information to help them become highly successful. Nelson also serves as Union Point's Better Hometown Manager. He promotes the town at classes and meetings all over the State, as well as works with agencies to findgrants and programming to bring greater economic impact to the area.
Branham and Nelson are rebranding and rebuilding their futures in directions no one could have imagined two years ago.
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