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'Holy Smokes' collectionat Montpelier Center for Arts 

Jump to full article: Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, 2008-10-16

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The Montpelier Center for Arts & Education recently opened "Holy Smokes: A World of Cajun Beauties, Brassy Blues n' Smokin' Joes." The show consists of 20 new acrylic paintings by Richmond artist Mike Coleman depicting Southern women and Catholic nuns smoking cigars. After painting the first in the series on a lark, Coleman says, "I told myself, 'I'm going to devote a whole year to painting women smoking cigars,' and I really enjoyed it because everyone who encountered them smiled."

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