Museum presents new exhibit honoring artist Ethel Davis

TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (AP) — Ethel Davis died four years before her dream of an art museum for the entire Shoals was realized, but her legacy lives on at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art and the numerous students she taught how to paint.

Davis, an artist and educator who lived most of her life in Sheffield and Tuscumbia, helped teach some of the most prominent, influential people in the Shoals, including doctors, lawyers and "socialites" at her "art barn" according to Leighton resident Louse Lenz.

On Sunday, the art museum will present a new exhibition called "Foundations — The Living Legacy of Ethel Davis," to highlight this visionary artist, educator and advocate. The exhibition continues until Friday, Feb. 22.