Allison Merriweather is a true "outsider" artist. She is compelled to paint by a force she does not understand. She uses symbolism, often repeated across various works, in both large ...
After several years of collecting driftwood from the shores of Lake Superior, Amy began to make pegboards. Soon, flat surfaces with sticks were spent for creative variation and Amy moved ...
I used to be a writer and a teacher, jobs I absolutely loved. But even back then some inner force always compelled me to draw. Which I did -- in ...
Bill Newton’s pots are thrown on wheel and by hand using cone 6, mid-range stoneware and porcelain. His face jugs are made with as many as 21 pieces or ...
Down Poorhouse Road, on a piece of land in rural Alabama that his grandfather bought for little more than pocket change, Butch Anthony dwells in a world of wonder. No ...
CM & Grace Kelly and their five year old daughter Ruby Elvis Rose are a family of artists from Kentucky. They travel the country in their third artcar, the ...
Self-taught artist Cher Shaffer draws inspiration for her works from her life experiences and her rich heritage. Born in Georgia in 1947 to a mother of Native American descent ...
Milk taught himself to paint in his twenties when he was painting houses and his own house was filled with left over paint and cast off wood. He sold his ...
As an artist, David Alsobrooks doesn't prescribe to any specific method or practice; he’s working within a philosophy of art making he calls Materialism. He adapts his techniques and ...
David Sparrow is a self-taught welder who is constantly dreaming of unique ways to make sculpture fun. Raised in Greensboro, he was exposed early in life to his grandfather's ...
Edward Woltemate, Jr. creates art that can take you to another world. His brilliant artwork has fantastic color and design. Despite being born deaf April 4, 1944, he creates ...
Through his art, Eddie Hayes offers a vast and detailed history lesson of the bygone traditions of North Carolina farm life. Hayes was born in 1951 in Atkinson, North Carolina. ...
I am a self-taught artist. I began as a photographer, but grew frustrated over not being able to get on paper how I saw things in my head. I then ...
Gabriel Shaffer lives and works in Asheville, NC. The son of renowned folk / visionary artist Cher Shaffer, Gabriel was raised within the self taught medium and had contact ...
After attending medical school in Düsseldorf, Germany, Jackie worked as a surgeon in London, Düsseldorf and Portsmouth, then later changing her field to anesthesia. When she arrived in the ...
James Harold Jennings lived all of his 69 years in a rural area near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Eccentric and reclusive as a child, he was homeschooled by his mother. As ...
Jeff Zenick was born March 13th, 1956 in Paris, France to American parents. He has drawn and painted since he was young. He is a self taught artist without ...
Jerry Smith lives in East Tennessee and works in an automotive factory. He is a self-taught artist who started out wanting to be a comic book artist when he was ...
Jim Kransberger entered the world of Art and Crafts through the back door--he's self-taught and "later" in life. In January, 2010, at the age of 75, he made his first ...
Jimmy Lee Sudduth, an African-American folk artist whose evocative, textured paintings made partly from Alabama mud were prized by collectors around the world, died last Sunday in Fayette, Ala. He ...
John Cornbread Anderson was raised on a farm in Lumpkin County, Georgia. As most farm kids he spent a lot of time exploring the fields and woods around him ...
John was born in 1936 (gosh he looks good for an old man) in Fond Du Lac Wisconsin (where the @%#* is that?). His mother was an artist & his ...
Karl Mullen, born 1954 in Dublin, Ireland, lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts where he works in a studio in the cow stall of a nineteenth-century barn. He has developed his own ...
Laura was the first of three kids born to a restless Baptist minister and an artistic housewife in the early '60s. Their wayward family provided her with a different definition ...
Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Libby Lynn moved to Alabama in 1992, and eventually settled down in North Carolina in 2000. After an unusual 15-year career that included media management ...
Linwood Hart lives in North Carolina and paints with acrylics and sometimes embeds paper and fiber materials within the paint as he works. Multiple layers are built up until ...
Lurena is a self-taught doll maker and all of her designs are original and one-of-a-kind. She has no formal way of beginning her process but just starts playing with ...
Born in Belleville, Illinois, Mark May is a Special Education teacher who now lives in Reading, Pennsylvania. Mark originally created the Robots as a way of releasing stress accumulated ...
Mike Esslinger's art is crafted from cold rolled steel, sheet metal, and often salvaged parts. His love of big sky country, especially its night scape, inspire many of the moon ...
Mose Tolliver was born in 1920 to Alabama sharecroppers. One of a dozen children, he had eleven children of his own and supported his family with odd jobs until a ...
Georgia self-taught artist Peter Loose saturates the surfaces of his works with dots upon dots of vivid color. Loose celebrates the animal kingdom in his creations, painting all manner ...
Born in 1966 in Le Havre, Pierre Henry Guérard grew up in a family famous throughout France for the highly emotional firework displays they produced in celebration of great national ...
Ray Matthews, 54, lived in South Hill, Virginia, a town that inspires many of his paintings until 1966, at which point he moved with his parents to Richmond. He ...
Celebrate Black History Month
with An Exhibit Of The Late Reverend Albert Wagner
One Bad Cat: The Work Of Reverend Albert Wagner
From The Wesley And Missy Cochran Collection Of LaGrange, ...
Roderick McClain’s work takes place in medias res, often with a face emoting the crux of a particular story. With text giving voice to character, Roderick’s mixed media creations illustrate ...
Roger Dinger, through Reinbarnation, offers a more positive destiny for these picturesque structures by reclaiming, re-purposing, and reusing the vintage wood in his art.
The past life of each barn ...
Mr. Ezell was born in Mebane, NC in 1953 and brought up in Durham. He has worked at the Daniel Boone Company in Hillsborough and has been doing general ...
North Georgia resident Sarah Rakes remembers first being fascinated by art at the age of nine, when a traveling museum show came through her small Arkansas town. During teenage years ...
Robert Bullock is the founder and director of the Coalition Ingenu Self-Taught Artists' Collective. Although Bullock was also a self-taught artist with a history of homelessness, he rarely included his ...
Vollis has lived in Lucama his entire life. He served in the Army Air Corp from 1941 to 1945. He opened a repair shop for trucks, tractors and lawn ...
