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Story of S. P. Dinsmoor and his Garden of Eden in Lucas, Kansas, by Bill Amundson.
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S. P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden Columns by the popular and grumpy NY Press columnist Art on a Stick, Drawings and comics by B. Amundson Mouth Wash, Stories, humor, and articles by Mike Walsh Parables in Glass, Disturbing stained glass artwork by Judith Schaechter missionCREEP's Recommended...Senior citizen Tressa "Grandma " Prisbrey, built a complete village out of discarded glass bottles.
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Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village: Home page You have arrived at the home page for Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village. This folk art environment is the single handed work of self taught senior citizen Tressa Grandma Prisbrey. Located in Simi Valley California, Bottle Village is lauded by art...Photographs and information about a collection of concrete and glass folk art sculptures made by Fred Smith, a lumberjack and tavern operator in Wisconsin.
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Concrete Park Folk Art Sulptures Photography by Dave Nance The impulse to create arises in many people who never receive formal artistic training. The work they produce is sometimes called folk art, or primitive, or visionary, or naïve, or outsider art but there is no doubt that it is...Features a vintage service station, a 90-year-old Louisiana Creole cottage, an exhibition hall of memorabilia, and the much photographed House of Shards.
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This roadside attraction near New Orleans is a folk art environment featuring thousands of found objects, and home made inventions. See a miniature Southern town with push-buttons that activate animated “displays On exhibit are odd collections, memorabilia, and old arcade...A small collection of photos of signs seen on rural road trips. This vernacular signage is a form of folk art.
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Rock on the Road While traveling on state highways and touring small towns, I photograph local signage, and other vestiges of vernacular expression. Here are a few images from my travels. H a p p y T o u r i n g! Rock...