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Now Available

27th Annual North Carolina Oyster Festival Print by local artist Bunny Lauzon.

NOW on Sale at the Chamber office for $45.00.  Contact us at 910.754.6644 to order your print.

The 2007 Oyster Festival Poster, “Thanks For The Memories” is a signed and numbered limited edition print from an original oil painting.

The image below is also available for purchase in 8' x 10' for $15.

Background on Print

The poster is reminiscent of the early 1980’s- harvesting our local oysters & roasting them at the Ocean Isle Beach Airport hanger. The New Bridge was added to the painting to denote a sense of place. Other memories from early Oyster Festival days include eating fish and oysters served under the National Guard tents, enjoying great food & fellowship and foot-tapping music.

Many thanks to the “models” in the painting, L-R, Rex Gore, Robby Robinson, Butch Redwine and one mystery person, for permission to use this old newspaper clipping. Thanks to the oysterman model, Max Lauzon.

Artist Information

Virginia Ryan (Bunny) Lauzon has been producing award winning oil paintings for several years. Signed Limited Edition prints of her works have been available since 1982. She was born in Menominee, Michigan, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus School of Art and the University of Kansas. She also enjoyed two years of private portrait with Jean Pilk, (Art Student's League of N.Y.) Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

As a military wife, she traveled and painted extensively throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and Korea, hosting a one-person exhibit in Pusan, Korea sponsored by the United States Information Service.

Shallotte, N.C. has been home since 1979 where she maintains a studio.

Lauzon's work is available at these local locations:

• Collector’s Corner, Shallotte N.C.
• Callahan's Gifts, Calabash, N.C.
• Riverbend Art Gallery, Shallotte, N.C.
• The Sea Gallery, Calabash, N.C.
• A Frame or Two, Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.

Lauzon is also a restorer of oil painting. All restoration work is done at the owner's risk. Extreme care is taken with each work of art. Only the finest museum quality products and methods are used. Work includes cleaning, varnish removal, relining, re-stretching and final varnishing. A written lab report is issued with each painting describing in detail all work done and products used. Before and after photos are taken. She is the in-house restorer for Fiddler’s Art Gallery, Wilmington,
N.C.

Still On Sale

26th Annual North Carolina Oyster Festival Print by Ivey Hayes giclee prints at the Chamber office for $45.00. Contact us at 910.754.6644 to order your print.