Featured Artists
We’re thrilled to partner with and showcase the brilliant work of five remarkably talented West Virginia-based artists in the genesis mint of 1863nft!
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Russell Facemire
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Jamie Lester
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Robby Moore
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Eli Pollard
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Rachel Pollard
Russell Facemire
Sutton, WV
Russell Facemire is an artist from Braxton County, West Virginia. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, WV, and his Master's at SUNY Buffalo. He works primarily in oils, pen and ink and fiber, but has also worked on installation art and puppetry and is a dilettante cartoonist. He is currently thinking about deer-headed people more than he should, probably.
Jamie Lester
Morgantown, WV
Jamie Lester was born on September 7th, 1974 in Oceana, West Virginia, a small mining town in Wyoming County. After graduating from West Virginia University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, he formed Lester Sculpture, specializing in figurative works through sculpture, paintings, and other art mediums.
Jamie’s professional career began post graduation and he has been successfully self-employed for over 25 years. Pivotal moments in his career include designing the obverse side of the West Virginia State Commemorative Quarter, sculpting The Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance, The Jerry West Statue, and The Don Knotts Statue. Lester entered the NFT art world with Bird Girl NFT in January 2022.
Robby Moore
Beckley, WV
Robby was born and currently works in Beckley, West Virginia. He graduated with a Bachelor of Art degree in Studio Arts, with a painting concentration, and a minor in Theatre from Concord University. Moore began professionally exhibiting artwork in 1999. He is a mixed media painter, but also uses textiles and collage in his work. Moore is also a professional theatrical director, and has worked professionally as a scenic designer/artist, costumer, actor, technician and marionette puppeteer. From 2011 to 2016, he was a resident studio artist at Tamarack, an Arts facility in Beckley, WV, where he became a juried artist in 2008. Moore is also a member of Beckley Art Center and serves on the Board of the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts. Moore was named “Best Artist in West Virginia,” in WV Living’s 2021 winter issue.
Eli Pollard
Morgantown, WV
Elijah Pollard earned a bachelor of fine arts from West Virginia University and a master of fine arts from the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo. At West Virginia University he teaches interior design graphics. Eli is involved in several faculty-led study abroad programs, such as, El Salvador, Central European Culture 1, Central European Culture 2, and Tasting Europe. He is a multi-media artist/musician who shows in both the US and Europe.
Scenic photography for 1863nft.com was graciously donated by Clarksburg, West Virginia-based photographer, Jim Crim, owner of Art by Crim.