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.