Featured Artists

Grady had the following to say about his art: My art is all about color. It is rare that I have something specific in mind when I begin a piece. I listen to music when I create a painting and let it take me places and the piece evolves at will. I use watercolor straight out of the tube and let the...

Carol Hudson is originally from Sikeston, Missoui, but has lived here for most of her life. She graduated from Heath High School. She used charcoal and pencil a bit in high school but did not get serious about art until after her children were grown. Carol was able to take a couple semesters of...

Rosemary grew up in Elsah, Illinois, the eldest of nine children. Elsah was a tiny historic village on the Mississippi River. The local grade school was a two-room stone structure with no indoor plumbing until the year she was in the sixth grade. There were three kids in her class. She went to a...

Rebekah is a young artist a couple years out of college. She took art classes during her high school years, first at Reidland High School, then at McCracken High School. But she didn’t fall in love with painting until her time at WKCTC. She took classes from Randy Simmons, and Tanya...

Carol Couric Tribou was born in Florida, moved to Texas when she was 6 and grew up there. She loved art from the beginning, getting the funnies, as a child and trying to draw them. Carol earned a Bachelor’s of Art at then Dallas Baptist College. She and her husband Dick married while in college....

This month’s Featured Artist, Susan Lambert was born in St Louis but grew up in Harrisburg, IL. Her parents’ story was a true ‘Traveling Salesman’ story. Her mom worked as a pharmacist, finishing up her internship in a drug store in the area, when her dad, a Traveling Salesman (pharmaceuticals)...

Maryann Huebschmann is our Featured Artist this month. When I asked her how she got started as an artist she first said, oh let’s not go back that far and I said oh let’s. Wow! We had a great conversation. I need lessons in shorthand. Maryann says she started in high school, a Catholic run high...

Sandi Johnson, this month’s Featured Artist is originally from Clay and Whitley Counties, over in eastern Kentucky. 1 grandfather was a coal miner/cobbler/farmer and 1 a college professor born in Scotland and transplanted to our continent as a very young child. Her mother taught in 1 room schools...

You can usually recognize Harrietta’s art when you see it, by the strong brush stroke and her color choices, no matter her subject. She says when she has no subject in mind, but really wants to paint, horses are her go to image. She grew up on a farm in western Tennessee, swimming and riding...

Diane has always been an artist, starting out drawing as a tiny child. Though you could say all artists have been ‘artists all their lives’. Some just don’t realize it for a while. Diane worked as a graphic designer for 10 years, working on children’s books for the Christian book industry. When I...

Meet Carol Harlan, this month’s Featured Artist. She began painting when she was 50, first making use of how to books then studying with local teachers and workshops. She works in acrylics, pastels and watercolor, but is currently focusing on mixed media. Carol enjoys the challenge of getting...

Chad Nelson is this month’s Featured Artist. He was born in Modesto, CA and grew up in the foothills west of Yosemite National Park, in the small old west town of Coulterville. He loved to draw as a child, and though he showed promise all through high school and was encouraged to pursue his...

Meet Becca, an Illinois artist relatively new at The PAPA Gallery. After we installed her show, I asked her some questions. Becca, a retired high school Social Studies teacher, paints lively images in oil and acrylic. She loved art as a child and returned to it when she retired. At first, she...

A Paducah native and graduate of the Lone Oak School System, Danna Gardner is our 1st Featured Artist here at The PAPA Gallery. She started painting in oils, but once she tried acrylics she never looked back, enjoying the fast-drying paint. Danna started painting in the 7th grade with Mary Yeiser,...