Applying the precise style of a professional graphic artist to an ancient painting technique more associated with abstract designs, La’Nelle Gambrell has created her own unique style of art. Though she has been an artist all her life and is also an accomplished watercolor and acrylic painter, La’Nelle has devoted herself to encautic painting in recent years and will share her work with the public during thi ...

A longtime visitor and now resident of Mountain View, Louisiana native Glenda Tooke is one of the new additions to this fall’s Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour. Glenda paints and decorates natural objects such as gourds, cypress knees, and okra pods. She and her husband, David, first came to Mountain View in 1973, and for many years they visited regularly, RV-ing with friends and spending a week here in the ...

“It’s a bright spot for me,” Charley Sandage said about a song he wrote being recorded recently on the album The Story We Tell by the bluegrass band Joe Mullins and The Radio Ramblers. Charley wrote the song “Neighbors” for the Simmons family in 1973 and gave them the song. The song was written with the Mountain View music community and the community in general in mind after Charley moved to Mountain View i ...

Above, Kathleen Torres and Amanda Lewis paint rocks in Washington Street Park. Taylar Sherrill was looking for something fun for her family to enjoy over the summer that “didn’t cost an arm and a leg,” when she discovered a game called Fun Rocks. She quickly created a Facebook page for Mountain View Fun Rocks and it now has 1,581 followers. Taylor explains the game consists of painting rocks and placing or ...

The combination of artistic creativity and a compulsive nature led Skip Mathews to create what is virtually his own art form. A coppersmith for 52 years, Skip developed the technique of decorating copper with colors by varying the temperature of the metal using a torch. He has perfected the technique through years of practice and shared it with his wife, Racheal. They will be joining the Off the Beaten Path ...

A spinning demonstration takes place March 16 during a reception at the CornerStone building on the courtsquare in Mountain View. Arkansas Craft School has purchased the building and is moving its operation. See the full story in the March 22, 2017 issue. ...

Lane Berg, a teacher at Timbo School, is a mixed media artist participating for the first year in the Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour set Sept. 16-18. See the full feature story on Berg as well as information about the event in the Sept. 14, 2016 issue. ...

Linda Rawlings retired to Stone County after 21 years of teaching art, 3-D design and photography. Her continuing photography work is inspired by the natural surroundings near her Round Bottom Road home, where she will open her home studio to the public for this year’s Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour. “I am inspired everyday with all that surrounds me here in Mountain View near the White River,” she says. “ ...

Workshops in beekeeping and other practices were conducted May 13-14 during Sustainability Weekend at Tomahawk Creek Farm, sponsored by Arkansas Craft School. See photos and information in the May 18 issue of the Leader. ...

The Arkansas Craft School is emerging for spring with a new director and office location. Phyllis Haynes will serve as interim director while the board of directors conducts a search for a permanent executive director. Haynes has a background in nonprofit management, having served the last 14 years of her career as CEO of the Arkansas Foodbank based in Little Rock. She and her husband, Bud Thurman, have jus ...