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.

Asa Ames American Folk Art

Asa Ames, a little known American sculptor, worked mostly from life, carving and painting three-dimensional wood portraits of family and friends. When he died of consumption in 1851, at the age of 27, he left behind 12 or 13 sculptures, most made during the last four or five years of his short life.

Folk Dog Art by Artist Abby Mcmillen

A graphic designer by day, Abby Mcmillen makes her home in beautiful Bozeman, Montana, where she knows more animals named Abby than people named Abby. She's a self-taught painter whose love of dogs and folk art encouraged her to start pushing paint around on canvases.

"Weaving Together Music & Art" Gray Gallery

Gray was born and raised in (Snake Hollow) Paint Rock, Tennessee. In this place he developed a sense of curiosity, discovery and imagination which he still pursues through his art and music. His work is rich in southern imagery, for example, from his song Brushy Mountain, Gray painted a convict, transformed into a blackbird, flying away from the remote East Tennessee prison with the lyrics of the murder ballad written across the sky.

Funky Chicken Art of C.E.Harrison

C. E. Harrison is a self taught southern Folk Artist from Georgia. Her work has been collected all over the United States. She lives a quiet life with her husband, son, 2 dogs, over 80 chickens, Taylor Turkey, and a couple of geese - Lucy Goosey and Zander Gander. The chickens number the most, and so Harrison became the "Mama Hen"!

Harrison says, " My animals give me a lot of my inspiration,but I also rely on my Southern heritage and the many stories I grew up listening to, to come up with my creations!"

Folk Art Pottery of Kyle Carpenter

Kyle Carpenter was born and raised in the Raleigh, NC area. He attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2000. Also in 2000, Kyle married and settled down in west Asheville. In 2002, Kyle Carpenter built a salt-kiln and made a studio at his home. Since then, he has been working as a studio potter, selling his wares at craft fairs and galleries.

Elegant Watercolors by Elaine Frenett

Elaine Frenett graduated in 1991 from San Jose State University with a BS in Graphic Design, focusing in Illustration. As an Illustrator, she has been published from New York to San Francisco. In between illustration jobs, she began to paint things she loved and received such strong response from her audience, she knew her direction had begun to change. Eventually, Elaine's interest shifted to fine art, where she now finds more personal satisfaction. Ms. Frenett has taught private classes as well as, done presentations at Universities and various art clubs. Her art pieces are currently in collections private, corporate, museum and international. And while her wanderings do continue, worldly and creatively, she has happily relocated to the Rogue Valley where beauty and discovery spark her artistic spirit.