Charles Town Now
Limited Edition Ornament
Presales are now closed.
6th in Series
HAPPY RETREAT
Happy Retreat, the stately Federal/Greek Revival style home of Charles Washington, founder of Charles Town and brother of our first President, stands on a hill overlooking Charles Town, surrounded by 12 acres of sloping lawns and woods. In 2015, the non-profit Friends of Happy Retreat (FOHR) partnered with the City of Charles Town to acquire, restore, and preserve Happy Retreat for public use. Under this innovative partnership arrangement, the City bought ten acres of the Happy Retreat property to incorporate into a grand park that will extend throughout the west end of Charles Town along scenic Evitts Run. FOHR bought the Happy Retreat mansion, out buildings and surrounding two acres of land. FOHR is restoring the house and its outbuildings to use as a center for history, heritage tourism, scholarship, culture, and other events.
Ornament will be available for sale on Small Business Saturday (November 29th) at the Charles Washington Hall from 10am to 3pm
Artist: Joy Quezada
Joy Quezada is a self-taught mixed media artist known best for her photorealism. Born in Queretaro Mexico,
Joy moved to the Charleston, WV, her mother's hometown, with her family at the age of 5. Then, her father attended and graduated from the WV State Police Academy. Her father’s career later transferred her family to the Shenandoah
Valley where she resides today. Her formative years were filled with outdoor adventures and a love
for animals which contributed to Joy’s early works including landscape, pet portraits and local wildlife.
Growing up Joy explored many different mediums and subjects including acrylic, watercolor and graphite. As an
adult Joy started her family young after meeting the love of her life and set art to the side for a 9-5 job. Never
losing the yearning to paint and create, she quit her 9-5 to become a special education teaching assistant which
allowed her to have a job she loved and time to paint and grow her art career. Today, Joy has had many
commissions and opportunities including but not limited to a large-scale Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco mural, 48 X 60
vintage downtown Charles Town acrylic on stretched canvas and many more.
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Click here to see more of Joy's Work: Joy Quezada Art
