Chesapeake Bay has some awfully nice people. I usually get up early in the morning, um… this morning I slept in, but I was awake yesterday at because I had so much work to do. So I worked until when we left the Chesapeake Bay and went up into the mountains to visit my son John, who is a chef at a restaurant in Luray, and we had lunch with him and then we came down to Waynesboro.
My day is my own, you know, and I work. Oh, of course I get tired [laughs]. And if I get tired, I just go to sleep! I go to Iowa next week. But I will be going every weekend until, um, the second weekend in December, now. New York — if you had never left New York, how do you think your work would be different? I would not have become familiar with the Amish and the Mennonites, so they would not appear in my work. When they win at football, the whole town is in an uproar.
My children called me at at night from the center of town and it was total uproar because the Italians — I guess it was a soccer match, not football. It was soccer? But the whole town. The town, the cars were honking, and the people were screaming. But then comes Christmas and they have wonderful pageantry there, and they have — their religious holidays are beautiful.
Very, very — oo — very, very beautiful. What a beautiful mind and ability these people had, to do this. Catholicism is my background, however, although it will always be my religion, all religions are your religion — are my religion. That is, that is the thing that you cannot believe, how people destroy what could be so good. You know. You had six children — were there ever conflicts? You were also very independent — you had to have been — to have gotten where you are.
You are a professional artist. Were there ever — was it ever hard to reconcile family and career — were there obstacles to that?
And so it would be the same if you wrote, again, and if you sang — the children all sang, and they all played the piano and other instruments, and so our life was listening to them, and going to their concerts and you know, supporting them in that.
And so it was very good. Would you have ever been surprised to learn that one day people would be collecting your work, that there would be organizations set up surrounding what you do as an artist?
I think that — I think that — I think that my religion has more to do with it than I even know it has to do with it. And I think that you work together towards things, so the organization that is set up in my name is not just me, it is a whole group of people. Heavens, there are so many things. And I think the more you hear that message, the better off you are, you know, and I think the better off we all are, and the better off kids are.
So the art program is very important. Not everyone can play baseball, not everyone can play, but they can sing, and they can… I went to a performance here last year over at the grammar school, and the performance was absolutely wonderful. They — the director just gave those kids all the confidence in the world and they were out there enjoying themselves. Really fantastic, it was absolutely fantastic. When you talk to artists in other disciplines — musicians, writers, dancers, actors — do you hear commonalities in the way you think, in the way you create?
Where do you see the connections? The connection that you see with other artists, other musicians, other writers, is the energy. An energy. You have to have an energy. Once I said, well, I better not say that — I better not say that — no. Everything happens — everything is an experience in your life.
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Locality Waynesboro. Occupation Artist and Philanthropist. The rural scenery, along with the serenity, work ethos, and traditional pursuits of the Amish and Mennonite communities, had a profound effect on Moss when she moved to Waynesboro with her family in The modest lifestyle of the Valley inhabitants soon began to appear in her paintings and drawings.
Buckley Moss is no doubt the best-known fine artist living in the New River Valley. Her paintings and especially the prints of her paintings may be found in homes and offices throughout the NRV and indeed, the country. What do you do then? Moss is both prolific in her work and highly influential in the art world. She is at once edgy and charming in her demeanor. She used to take us to art movies and they were beautiful and wonderful and encouraging. Her art history teacher, Dr.
Zucker, was also a favorite of hers. Moss was brought up in Great Kills, Staton Island. Her father worked in the stock exchange and her mother worked as a clothing designer. How did this native New Yorker come to live in Virginia? Port Arthur, Texas, was a very prejudiced town.
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