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by Rebecca Martinez

Anne Armentrout never thought she could draw, so she became a theater director and played with fiber and paper art on the side, and over the decades created a repertoire of quilt-style needlepoint, collagescapes and origami quilts. She even designs her own paper.

"I sometimes think I'm getting to be the artist I wanted to be in high school," Armentrout said. "But I still refuse to grow up."

Armentrout said her collages are her most successful endeavors in terms of sales and public attention. She got the idea to make them after being given dozens of old magazines by a friend whose granddaughter had just ravaged them for a floral collage.

"One little happenstance can change your life," she said.

Armentrout's collages — which look more like still-life paintings — are meticulously trimmed and assembled from unrelated pictures in magazines. Several have been displayed at the William King Museum in Abingdon......

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