Born in France from Polish immigrant parents, Aline Kala spent many years in the South of France, in a village called Puissalicon, near Montpellier. Many of her paintings recapture the beauty and colors of her region, the Languedoc-Roussillon. She visited Chapel Hill for the first time in 1981, and met her husband that summer. She received degrees from both UNC-CH and the Watts school of Nursing and is presently working as a nurse at UNC Health Care. She and her husband live in Chatham County, near Pittsboro. Aline Kala continues to paint and experiment using various medias. She was a member of the North Carolina...