Well-known artisan and craftsman, Blacksmith Jeff Fetty has received one of
10 West Virginia Artist Fellowship Grant Awards. The grant is for $3500 for
high-end custom metal work.
Fetty's work has been displayed in the Wheeling Artisan Center, the
Huntington Museum of Art and dozens of galleries around the country.
He has completed commissioned work for President Bill Clinton, the
Elizabethan Globe Theatre in London, Marshall University, Yves St. Laurent
in Paris and dozens of other institutions.
The current fellowship is awarded by the West Virginia Division of Culture
and History and the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.
Fetty's home page with his work can be viewed from the LINKS page on The
Hur Herald. Fetty's family sprung from the waters of the lower West Fork
near Richardson. |