All That Art
Bob Schwarz
The Charleston Gazette, September 6, 2007

“WHEN James Cottrell was an eighth-grader at Marmet Junior High School, his art teacher – Mrs. Virginia Lawson, he recalls – wanted her students to learn some art history.

In a long-ago time before Google, Cottrell researched several artists and wrote vignettes about each… Now, he and partner Joseph Lovett have assembled a collection of 400 pieces of contemporary art, 84 of which go on display Saturday in the Clay Center’s art galleries….”