The Secret to Controlling a Lack of Control
by“When I was nine years old I had a brain tumor,” reveals multimedia artist Molly Sawyer, who has also endured breast cancer and undergone…
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Latest Addition to Manufacturing Art Park Blows Us Away
byWhen former Madison County Planner Sara Nichols first walked into a manufacturing site — Peerless Blowers in Hot Springs — she was struck by…
The Piano, It Looks Like a Carnival
byPiano man Perry Olds isn’t a professional entertainer, but his zeal for making assemblage is rollicking enough. Olds jokes about a keyboard-player friend “who…
High-Energy Gallerist Invigorates a Former Roller Rink
by“Right space made it the right place,” says Miryam Rojas, describing her new venture, Mars Landing Galleries, located in Mars Hill. Opened July 10,…
The Importance of Doodling in Determining Destiny
byRhona Polonsky’s route to membership in the Kenilworth Artists Association and representation at Mars Landing Galleries was circuitous, international, imbued with curiosity and self-discovery,…
Grand Opening: Mars Landing Galleries
byA new fine art gallery is opening in Madison County, featuring 6,000 square feet of exhibition space to display works by artists that founder…
Brushes With War Turned Into a Life Painting Portraits
byPainter Skip Rohde did not expect to end up in the Smithsonian. But when the artist and veteran naval officer completed his “Faces of…
Looks Mean Everything to this Late-Career Sculptor
byBack in 2001, during Bill Holmes’ first pottery class, every other student in the room was making bowls. Holmes, however, was more ambitious. He’d…
It’s Not How the Crow Flies — it’s How it Lands that’s Important
byThe early work of Margaret Curtis appeared in the 1994 Bad Girls exhibit at New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art. Since then, she’s…