Who was Alice J. Andrews?
By Alice B. Andrews, Ozark Society Conservation Chair When describing a rare human being, where to begin……. Alice was born in El Dorado, AR, 1946. The family home there was dear to her. She continued to maintain the family home and spent the winters there in the midst of pine trees and quiet woods along with her beloved cats and dogs. Alice graduated from Henderson College in Arkadelphia, and was soon employed at Cranford Johnson Advertising Agency, creating artistic ads. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree studying under the abstract expressionist painter Grace Hartigan. Her honors include a residency with the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM, a Wolf Kahn fellowship in Vermont, a grant at the internationally famous San Miguel de Allende Art Institute in Mexico and a selection for show by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Alice is well-known in the art world. When I first met Alice (early seventies) she lived in LR, near my home. Because our names were the same, we frequently received each others ‘phone calls. Our mutual interest in the outdoors, canoeing, kayaking and hiking meant we each received calls from people we didn’t know and chatted a few [...]