arts&culture
IN GUSTINE By ANGELA GONZALEZ
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n the small town of Gustine in Merced County, where art galleries are usually rare to come by, Newman resident Katherine Crinklaw shares her love of art with her community through her fine art gallery. Crinklaw was first introduced to art at just 4-years-old through the painting lessons that her mother would give her alongside her siblings at home. From to this early introduction to art, Crinklaw’s passion for painting developed at a very early age and was an aspect of her life that she had discovered would be her calling very early on as well. After graduating high school, Crinklaw started her career and moved forward in accepting commissions from those who admired
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her work while working at a dress shop. While others would advise her to pursue a more “conventional” profession, Crinklaw’s family was nothing short of supportive throughout the beginning of her career. “I did of course deal with the advice about having a more conventional job but not from my family ” said Crinklaw. “I was always encouraged that ‘if you think you can do this then you need to do it.’” After taking this advice from her family, Crinklaw continued her work and soon had her art displayed in galleries all throughout the Central Valley, having a selection of hand-painted ceramics within Turlock’s Carnegie Art Center’s gift shop, and having
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