Stories behind the faces
These subjects sat for their portraits in Suellen’s Revolution Mill studio, sharing their stories as they were painted. The subjects include employees and family from the mill’s heyday as the world’s largest maker of flannel to descendants of the mill co-founders to present day tenants in the mill’s reincarnation as a live-work-play development.
Click on each subject to learn more about their story.

Ada Nelson

Alice Drake

Billy Cone

Cathy Gant Hill

Clyde Cagle

Delano Apple

Don Elliot

Don Ellis

Dorothy Brewer

Eddie Belk

Ernie Knesel

Evan Morrison

Evelyn Rice

Felix Semper

Jaime Gilliam

Janice Maness

Jeanne Tannenbaum

Joan Riddle Paris

Joey Seawell

Kenneth Wright

Leslie Thomas

Mary Bergman

Phyllis Postma

Stahlé Vincent

Wade Jenkins
Locate the exhibit
Our Faces of Revolution exhibit is as a permanent installation located in our Hall of Fame.