Mort Solberg Show Draws SKB Crowd in Fredericksburg

Several SKBers were in the Hill Country of Texas in time for the recent opening of Morten E. Solberg’s show at RS Hanna Gallery, in Fredericksburg, Texas. Mort had about a half dozen of his pieces on display as the gallery and the artist got to know each other...

SKB SPOTLIGHT: Greg Beecham

  Greg Beecham is not being self-deprecating when he says that the artists he teaches grow because of what’s already inside of them, nor is he boasting when he notes that one person’s work rapidly improved after the artist attending one of...

Larry Wollam Is for the Birds

Last Fall, a quiet man with a pleasant smile joined the family at SKB for the second year in a row. He had a tireless promoter at the workshop—Martha A. Thompson. You may recollect that Thompson had a big year at the 2013 SKB Workshop. Her art earned her First Place...

Kerrs Receive SKB Lifetime Achievement Award

On your way in to Jackson from Dubois, on the right-hand side of the road before the big bend left that goes into town, there’s a stone-colored building that both blends in and stands out. It blends in on purpose, because it was intended to. It stands out...

Mark Kelso: Surpassing Limitations to Make Art

Do you like art challenges? Here’s one: Get a short glimpse of a completely imaginary, computer-generated object that is mostly grey, then try to build a seven-foot model of it out of plastic bricks—a model that rewards careful scrutiny, one that provides...

Cowgirlology: Connie Spurgeon

“When you love something, you don’t care. You just keep going.” SKB participants can peek in the kitchen at virtually any time of day and see Connie Spurgeon working feverishly, along with her compatriots Janene Grende, David Carmona, Tammy Watson, Jessica...