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Amy Musia, Ohio River Faucet, 1981
baltic birch, plexiglass
14 x 16 x 23 in

Amy Musia was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1950. After graduating from North Texas State University, she moved to Evansville, Indiana, where she continued her art instruction in wood sculpture. Since the early 1980s she has maintained Lone Star Studio. Her sculptures and drawings have been exhibited widely in Evansville, Indianapolis, Dallas, Atlanta, Louisville, and Washington, D.C. Musia is best known for her imaginative and humorous wood-and-Plexiglas sculptures of water faucets. Another series features large-scale mixed-media versions of fishing flies.