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Home > Virtual Galleries > TAAP 2020: Buddy Wood and Mike Wood, Hand-painted Sign Making

TAAP 2020: Buddy Wood and Mike Wood, Hand-painted Sign Making

Buddy Wood, of Jamestown, has spent his career creating eye-catching hand-painted signs. He first encountered the art form in the Navy during the 1960s. After he returned home to Fentress County, he began to work in the trade professionally at a time when most local businesses, shops, stores, schools, and churches relied on painters for their signage, advertising, and window displays.As part of the 2020 Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, Buddy taught his son Mike Wood the subtleties of traditional design, lettering, illustration, pattern transferring, construction, and maintenance.

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