ASHEVILLE Location Thomas Wolfe Memorial Visitor Center, 48 Spruce Street, Lobby Center hours Call the site for operating hours, which vary seasonally. Center admission $1 adults, 50 cents students Center information: (704) 253-8304 Artist Connie Bostic Biography Bostic's work has been exhibited regionally in solo and group shows. She has also completed four large-scale murals in Asheville. She has a bachelor's degree in studio art from University of North Carolina at Asheville and a master's degree in painting from Western Carolina University. Since her early teens Bostic has been an avid reader of the works of Thomas Wolfe. Title, date A Thorn of Memory, 1996 Artwork, media Painting, oil on birch

Project Description Two walls of the new visitor center lobby of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial hold Bostic's panels painted with imagery corresponding to themes and quotations from Wolfe's work. The completed work creates a patchwork of 144 panels, which resemble the pattern of a quilt. Pre-selection panel Margaret Fuller, YMI Cultural Center Visual Arts Program Coordinator; Steve Hill, Thomas Wolfe Memorial Site Manager; Elma Johnson, artist and associate professor, UNC-Asheville; Bill McCrea, project manager, Department of Cultural Resources Office of Historic Sites; Maggie O'Conner, director, Asheville Historic Resource Commission; John Rodgers, architect, Rodgers Associates; Frank Thomson, artist, Asheville Art Museum Curator.