Folk Art of Michael de Meng

Meng's work is about transformations. It is about the transformation of the common into the sacred. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in my work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning.

These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing.

Betsy Youngquist sculptural mosaics

Betsy Youngquist was born in Rockford, IL in 1965. She received her Bachelors Degree in art from North Park University in Chicago in 1987, and her Masters Degree in art education from UW-Madison in 1992. During the past several years Betsy has shown her work in galleries, juried exhibitions, and art fairs throughout the United States.