Arturo Morando was a 7-year-old in Mexico when his parents sent him to a local artisan to see whether the old man would teach the boy a trade. “Yes,” said the artisan, Rodolfo Torres. He would, but ...
Like a carnival stand full of kewpie dolls, Bill Bonenfant’s front lawn is a colorful display of concrete castings. There on a low hill overlooking Route 85 stand jumbled rows of pots and pagodas, ...
Cement castings of huge rhubarb, burdock or hosta leaves are always eye-catching in the garden, especially when hand-painted in beautiful shades of greens, gold or even left the natural concrete color ...
It should not come as a surprise to anyone traveling the back roads of Kansas that this state is a mecca for grassroots art. “My hypothesis is that when pioneer people moved to Kansas, they were ...