Bob Mix is a self-taught metal sculptor. His work experience in commercial metal fabricating informs his whimsical and experimental approach to art-making. Several of his sculptures can be seen in front yards around Great Bend, and he was commissioned by the local zoo to bring the sculptural skeletons of prehistoric creatures to the zoo’s collection. […]
As of 2025, Charles Wince’s Mother Russia Meltdown remains in progress. It fills one of Wince’s bedroom walls – he wakes up to it daily and often sees refinements that need to be made. Teeming with symbolism and discrete cultural events (such as the Kennedy assassination), the painting seems to vividly chronicle in fine detail […]
The exhibition opened on September 12, 2024 which would have been Ron Mann’s 81st birthday.
Dr. Charles Smith’s INTUIT’s Visionary Ball Award, artist’s talk, and National Veterans Art Museum exhibition in Chicago include Fred Scruton photographs of Dr. Smith’s Hammond, Louisiana art environment.
Drawings and underground comics by James Beoddy dating from approximately the early 1970’s to 2015. All artworks ©James Beoddy estate.
Paintings by James Beoddy dating from approximately the early 1970’s to the early 2000’s. All paintings ©James Beoddy estate.
James Beoddy recalled that he began to draw when he was about four or five years old, and despite having attended college for a couple of years, he was primarily a self-taught artist. Beginning in 2000, he taught himself to paint in anaglyphic and ChromaDepth® 3-D. A longtime passionate advocate for freedom of expression, Beoddy’s […]
Jeannie Tagle brings her Halloween display props and sensibilities to her amusing and topical Christmas and Easter mash-ups.
Every year (2021 was the 31st) there are hundreds of visitors to Randy Skalos’ Haunt on Williams Halloween display. During trick-or-treat hours on Halloween night, the city of Conneaut closes Randy’s block to traffic while the multi-colored hellmouth of northwestern Ohio erupts.
In 2020 Randy Skalos resurrected his elaborate Halloween display for the 30th time. It attracts hundreds of visitors and is the local epicenter of Halloween – the city of Conneaut closes Randy’s block on Halloween night, and there are long lines of costumed visitors waiting in the driveway at the curtained entrance to his garage […]
When I first accidentally happened upon Jeannie Tagle’s Halloween haunt in 2011 (and met her for the first time), I asked if I could take pictures and whether she would mind posing in the display. She promptly changed into a slasher victim costume, applied soul eater fangs, grabbed an alien fetus specimen jar, and lowered […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Since the mid-1980’s, Steve Kaselak has annually filled his front yard and property with an Easter display from Palm to Easter Sundays. For more than a generation, visiting Jellybeanville has become an annual family tradition for numerous local residents. Kaselak begins planning each year’s display in January, and it takes him about two weeks to […]
Jerry Hubbell had worked in banking before starting his own farming business in 1980. To mend implements, he took welding lessons, and after the needed repairs were finished, he began to “experiment.” He reshaped discarded metal scraps into a cowboy-driven stagecoach, a purple people eating dragon, Batman on a motorcycle, and many more. The stagecoach […]
Ronald Mann is a self-taught Vietnam veteran artist. His wife Ricki was an amateur painter, and after returning from the war with un-diganosed PTSD, Ron started to make paintings using her leftover materials. In recent years Ron has created new layers of meaning in his work by photographing projections of slides of his paintings onto […]
Ronald Mann is a self-taught Vietnam veteran artist. His wife Ricki was an amateur painter, and after returning from the war with un-diganosed PTSD, Ron started to make paintings using her leftover materials. Ron had no background or training in art, and remains uninterested in art history or the contemporary artworld. A form of self-therapy, […]