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Page Senior Makes His Mark on North Carolina Landscape
Page High senior Wesley Gregory has already made a mark on North Carolina’s history and landscape, literally. The 18-year-old helped his father, artist Wes Gregory, paint a mural of Doc Watson in the town of Wilkesboro when Wesley was still in middle school. It was a family affair, with Wesley’s brother, William Gregory, and step-mother also lending a hand.
“I did a lot of the stuff at the bottom. The water is all me,” said Gregory. “It turned out a lot prettier than I thought it would be. He (his father) spent every single night up there, he spent an entire summer and be out there until 4a.m. I would help him when it was light.”
Gregory’s father passed away when he was a freshman at Page High, but his son didn’t give up his love of art. He says the program at Page High, lead by teachers Ashley Scarbro and Kendra Davis, helped to inspire him and allowed him to explore his own artistic interests.
“The curriculum allows you to do whatever you want with no holding back,” said Gregory. “I think that’s the coolest part, because all of the art classes I’d taken before then were very structured and you had to do ‘this’ and then ‘this’ and then ‘that,” but this art program that I’ve been in for the past few years has been really self-driven, and lets me come up with what I want to make, and that’s always been a stress relief during the day. Something that makes me feel like I’m little closer to my dad if I’m sad.”
Gregory will head to UNC-Wilmington next year to major in business administration. Despite the fact that he doesn’t plan to pursue art as a career, he says art classes played an important role in his overall academic success.
“When I’m stressed out in math, or big project in English, or when I have all this stuff, it allows me a little bit of a safe-haven where I don’t have to worry about all that. I can put down my books and my backpack, pick up a pencil or brush and just make whatever I want.”
Gregory says he will continue to make art, because he always feels he needs to make something, and he will always be proud of the work he did with his dad.
“The mural means a lot to me,” said Gregory. “All the time I’ll see people who will go visit and take pictures and post on social media, or someone will send a picture they took to me, and that’s really cool.”