Born in Pennsylvania, Alison moved to a rustic farmhouse in NC in 1991. She made her first collage when she was six years old from old magazines that her grandmother ...
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 ...
Bart Schultz is a self-taught contemporary artist living in Richmond, Virginia. Over the years he has experimented with a number of art forms, most often related to sculpture 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 ...
While many believe that Black Joe Jackson is may not be a ‘real’ person but rather an unknown artist pretending to be this person, the common biography given to him ...
Bruce New has lived in Kentucky his entire life and has always made art. As a child he created notebooks of comic heroes and battle scenes of war but never ...
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. ...
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"I am a self-taught artist. I began as a photographer, but grew frustrated over not ...
Tim Flinn and Bobbi Jo Imbrongo live and work in Athens, Georgia. Tim, a retired elementary school teacher, learned to turn pots at Crow Ridge Pottery with Todd Hewell. ...
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 ...
Jena Matzen is a self-taught jewelry designer and metal smith who has been creating art for over 40 years. She loves the creative process, appreciates minimalism, and is inspired ...
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 ...
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 ...
Born and raised in Chicago, Joe Galas has lived in North Carolina since 1995. He previously worked as a designer for manufacturing corporations and as a licensed building contractor. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Phillip Long is a self-taught artist from Greensboro, working to make inanimate household products, tools, and various found and reclaimed implements in to robot characters. Each robot is given ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rose lives outside of Carrboro in North Carolina. She a self taught artist that at another time worked doing illustration and animation in Los Angeles at Klasky-Csupo, Nickelodeon and ...
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 ...
Sandee Washington has been painting all her life; it's how she copes. When she was seven her mother brought her to the restaurant where she worked as a waitress ...
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 ...
