Anna Novel
Frank Novel has saved many of his mother’s sketchbooks. Now deceased, Anna Novel was also a mental health patient, and her work helped inspire Frank to take up drawing. These work date from later in her life.
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1962 Corvair 95 Greenbrier van
Roy Smith 2
Roy Smith lives in Royville without electricity or plumbing. During the day he charges solar lights for nighttime use inside the van where he sleeps. In the 1990’s Roy was featured on the television news program 20/20, and he won a racial bias law suite against the police department (in a different Colorado county). […]
Banks part 3 video
Floyd “Junior” Banks (A.K.A. “Castleman’s”) full scale castle walls– made almost entirely by Floyd working alone from salvaged materials– have been under continuous construction since 1993. Behind the two castle walls, most rooms are open to the sky, and none are habitable. Complete with a torture chamber and fireplace, Floyd believes that images representing Divine […]
Morrow part 2 paintings
Jimmy Morrow’s folk art paintings in his Edwina Church of God in Jesus Christ’s Name reinforce the messages in his charismatic sermons, during which he sometime handles snakes. Jimmy has written a book on the history of serpent handling (see link below). His further interests in history include especially the Civil War, and his Great, […]
Morrow part 1
Jimmy Morrow’s folk art paintings in his Edwina Church of God in Jesus Christ’s Name reinforce the messages in his charismatic sermons, during which he sometime handles snakes. Jimmy has written a book on the history of serpent handling (see link below). His further interests in history include especially the Civil War, and his Great, […]
Brinkley
In 1998 Phil Brinkley began to weld dinosaurs, dragons, knights, and other fanciful creations out of automobile and farm implement parts. He also works with commercial sheet metal as well as construction tube and bar stock. He is retired after 40 years with the Cessna Aircraft Company, and helps his son with his auto body […]
Henry Hall 2
Henry Hall made numerous Mardi Gras costumes, model floats, and found-object sculptures. He also drew, made spray paintings from custom stencils, and decorated his yard with beads, party hats, and objects from around his neighborhood. He proudly recalled his U. S. Army service (1953-5), having a traveling dance troupe and running a dance studio in […]
Isaac Long
A retired contractor, Mr. Long recalls beginning in the sheet-metal business at 22, becoming a welder and later a general contractor for steel buildings and the construction and remodeling of houses. He worked for the Halliburton Corporation for about 2 1/2 years. He’s owned his house since around 1980, and once had a welding shop […]
Brady Video
As a young boy in the 1950’s, Bill Brady’s severe dyslexia was little understood. At home, he learned metalworking alongside his father, an accomplished blacksmith, but after the ninth grade, Bill was counseled to give up schooling, and he dropped-out to take a series of menial jobs. While living in New England, he would supplement […]
Brady 3
As a young boy in the 1950’s, Bill Brady’s severe dyslexia was little understood. At home, he learned metalworking alongside his father, an accomplished blacksmith, but after the ninth grade, Bill was counseled to give up schooling, and he dropped-out to take a series of menial jobs. While living in New England, he would supplement […]
Billy Brady 2
As a young boy in the 1950’s, Bill Brady’s severe dyslexia was little understood. At home, he learned metalworking alongside his father, an accomplished blacksmith, but after the ninth grade, Bill was counseled to give up schooling, and he dropped-out to take a series of menial jobs. While living in New England, he would supplement […]
Bill Brady 1
As a young boy in the 1950’s, Bill Brady’s severe dyslexia was little understood. At home, he learned metalworking alongside his father, an accomplished blacksmith, but after the ninth grade, Bill was counseled to give up schooling, and he dropped-out to take a series of menial jobs. While living in New England, he would supplement […]
William Brady Jr.
In 1963, Philadelphia steelworker William Brady Sr. moved his family to northwestern Pennsylvania to take a superintendent position at Universal-Cyclops Steel in Titusville, Pa. Bill Sr. was an accomplished artisan who spent most of his free time crafting decorative works in his fully equipped blacksmithing shop. Born in 1943, Bill Jr.’s severe dyslexia was un-recognized […]
Wince paintings and details
Charles Wince paints on the walls of WinceWorld, canvas, and bas relief layers of wooden cutouts. Subjects range from personal experience, to cultural commentary. His first apartment in Columbus was above a burlesque theater where the regulars of a local bar populated his painting “Scars and Bars” a kind of The Iceman Cometh like commentary […]
Liggett 4
In 2013 after I made an off-hand comment on how amusing it would be to have one of MT’s new cannon sculptures in front of my house, he immediately said, “we could dicker on a price, but you’ve done a lot for me, and I’ll give you one.” He added that it would be worth […]
Robertson part 7 Cross Symbolism
(quotations on this page are of Isaiah Robertson’s words) The 25 foot cross Prophet Isaiah built in his driveway was a gift to the community: offering physical and spiritual healing, as well as a final chance for redemption ahead of the imminent Second Coming – to occur at the brink of Niagara Falls on Goat […]
Henry Hall 1
Henry Hall made numerous Mardi Gras costumes, model floats, and found-object sculptures. He also drew, made spray paintings from custom stencils, and decorated his yard with beads, party hats, and objects from around his neighborhood. He proudly recalled his U. S. Army service (1953-5), having a traveling dance troupe and running a dance studio in […]
Roy Smith 1
Roy Smith lives in Royville without electricity or plumbing. During the day he charges solar lights for nighttime use inside the van where he sleeps. In the 1990’s Roy was featured on the television news program 20/20, and he won a racial bias law suite against the police department (in a different Colorado county). […]
Frank Novel 4