Ingrid Gipson was born in Germany. She chose to study Fashion Design and Marketing in Wiesbaden, Germany. She built for herself an impressive career in the field of fashion from designing to heading up companies. Her work took her to markets of Dallas, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and to several Countries in Europe. Before retiring full time she consulted [...]

I grew up in Laguna Beach, California, an artist colony. My father’s a painter and sketch artist. He had me drawing at 3 years old. Art was my passion all through high school and college. In these years I was exposed and involved in two large summer art festivals each year in Laguna Beach with [...]

Bill’s work has been in juried shows around the Arkansas: Eldorado, Fort Smith, Springdale, and Little Rock. One painting was published in the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion Calendar for 2007. His work can be seen at the Arkansas Sheriff’s Boy’s Ranch at Alma, Rich Mountain Community College in Mena, and at the Fine Art Center in [...]

Four years ago I moved to the Ouachita Mountains. I now reside on a 4 acre ranch 20 miles outside of Mena. A rural area with woods, mountains, rivers and ponds. I live with my talented partner Fred and my exceptional 13 year old daughter, Jordan. Fred handcrafts all my unique frames and bases in his on-site shop. Previous [...]

Carolynne Cook, also known as Whispering White Wolf Wilds, is registered as a member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe; the tribal reservation is located in Lame Deer, Montana. As a small girl, Carolyn has always had an interest in her Native American background. Her work in Native American art began in 1995 when she moved [...]

A Jack-Of-All-Trades, Dawn Stoeckinger has done it all. Moving from around Death Valley, California, where she was a temporary art teacher, Dawn has picked up a knack for various mediums including pastels and latex house paint over tarpaper canvases.  Her personal favorite mediums are watercolor and pencil. Dawn is also the creator of the annual Mena Art Gallery Haunted [...]

Gilda Meyers was born in Magnolia, Arkansas. It was the call of the nearby piney woods and the weekly fishing trips with her Pappy that inspired her love of nature. After retiring in 2003 to her Ladyhawke Ranch, her horses and miniature donkeys became the primary focus of her realistic pen and inks. Gilda began [...]

Henry grew up in a very small town before TV and the internet when books were the source of anything you wanted to learn. He began drawing before he began going to school, sold his first oil paint at age nine, and taught himself watercolor, pastel, colored pencil, etching, carving and sculpture. He entered and [...]

I was born and raised in El Dorado, Arkansas, and attended Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, where I received a BA in French in 1970. I also met and married my husband while there. I was a stay-at-home mom during my children’s years at home. My husband Bob and I have three married children and three grandchildren. We have [...]

Tyrone’s wonderful use of color and light in his paintings faithfully represents the ever changing landscapes of the American horizon. Traveling through the United States, he faithfully brings life to his canvases, freezing in time the beauty of nature. Now a full time artist, he has become a serious, dedicated, fine artist of significance. Tyrone’s [...]

I started working with metal in the late 1960’s, and it is a craft which I have always enjoyed. In the mid-1970’s, I visited a gallery in Tucson, Arizona and saw some metal art. I decided it would be a fun thing to do. Having no formal art education, I first started with scrap pieces [...]

One of this country’s pre-eminent stained glass artists now has his studio in southeastern Oklahoma.  Green has been creating stained glass designs for churches, homes and businesses for 30 years. Green was introduced to stained glass at the College of the School of the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri.  He went on to study commercial and fine art at Oral [...]

Hugh Erwin was an artist all his life. That life ended recently, and he will be sorely missed by all the community he contributed so much to. Erwin said he started by digging in a dump from the late 1800’s in a small town on the property where he grew up. He found thousands of bottles, dug them out, [...]

I have enjoyed many winters working with my hands, gathering ideas from walks thru the mountains and thru life. My inspiration comes from all God’s creations. The trees bring log and lumber for rustic furnishings. Leather and tanned hides become buckskin dresses and coats. Gourds from the garden are painted for decorations and bowls. allen [...]

REVOLUTIONARY DESIGNS, INC. is a small family operated woodworking shop started by Rick and Donna Chrisman in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. The shop is now located on 20 rural acres in western Arkansas. This setting allows us to live our dream and provides the inspiration for our work. We became interested in woodworking as a [...]

Jane Brace is a self taught artist, living and working in the Ouachita mountains of western Arkansas. Jane has gallery represention and her work can be found in private collections. In the Native American art of pine needle basket weaving, she seeks out contemporary shapes in an attempt to further advance this very old art [...]

When it comes to art, Lou Alderman has done it all. He has a B.S.E. and an M.S.E. in Art Education, both from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia. Alderman says, “I was fortunate to have the best teachers to be found anywhere in drawing, painting, print-making, sculpture, and pottery-making.” He taught art in the public [...]

There’s art that you look at, and there’s art that you think at. Looks like that’s what I like thinking. jimjanebrace@yahoo.com