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The article features female painter Virginia Derryberry of eastern Tennessee. Derryberry has held several national committee appointments in her role as the Chair of the College Art Association's Services to Artists Committee. An overview is provided on some of the awards, grants and recognitions given to Derryberry for her skills as a painter and her impressive teaching abilities. Piero della Francesca became her art inspiration and Clark Stewart and Leonard Koscianski serve as her studio mentors in graduate school. Some of her paintings are described which include "Flight of Passage," "Garden of Earthly Delights," and "Melancholia."