Holly Schenk

Holly Schenk grew up in Nebraska where she received both a Bachelors and a Masters degree in Art Education. Her teaching experience includes all age levels in both public and private venues. After moving to the Kansas City area in 1982, Holly worked at Hallmark Cards as an art director for 12 years. She continues to teach part-time and proudly claims that most of her time goes into mom duties.

Through her teaching and directing experiences, she learned how to create in many different media. She loves to use color in a strong way and enjoys when the viewer can see things from her viewpoint. Pastels and painting media are Hollys' favorites but she'll also venture into collage, photography, fine crafts, calligraphy, and caricatures.

Roger Cissner

Many of us find that we are in a constant race to quickly get somewhere else, sometimes to the detriment of looking at where we are.”For the past twenty plus years Roger has made his home in Plattsburg, Missouri, a rural farming community north of Kansas City and Smithville Lake.There are two main focuses Roger concentrates on when presenting his photography. First, and foremost is to present photography as an expressive fine art medium.The second is to show the wonderful views, both large and small, that surround us. It is within this focus that an attempt is made to capture images that offer a feeling of tranquility and peace. Roger’s photography emphasizes the natural ambiance of Northwestern Missouri along with images of his far-ranging travel destinations. His portfolio consists primarily of floral, animal and landscape subjects.Roger utilizes a manual film camera to capture his images and predominantly uses color film to fully emphasize the beauty of the selected subjects.

Herman Scharhag

After a career of 40 years as a successful architect, Herman Scharhag has now embarked on a greater challenge: to be one of the best watercolor artists in the area. His architectural background, combined with form, sense of vivid color, and keen eye for beauty have produced many beautiful paintings. His watercolors, in a wet and fluid style, express the spontaneity likened to the Impressionists, yet retain the rigid discipline of his background.
Mr. Scharhag’s work can be viewed at the following locations: Northland Exposure Artist Gallery in Parkville, Images II of K.C., as well as his personal studio.

Don Dane

Don is a self-taught artist who likes the realistic style of painting and drawing. He has become well known for his portrayal of the American west and the cowboy way of life. Don spends a great deal of time on working cattle ranches from Kansas to Arizona. It’s on these ranches that he gains the knowledge and photographic references for his paintings. Many of these paintings have been reproduced on over a dozen western and bluegrass posters at festivals around the country. Don’s work has been featured in Western Horseman, American Cowboy Magazine, Art of the West and on CowboyPoetry.com.

Don works from his home/studio located in Olathe, Kansas. He is currently represented by The Rice Gallery of Fine Art in Overland Park, KS.

Chun Wang

Painting has been a part of my life ever since I was a kid. It became more and more significant in my life as I earned my undergraduate degree in China and master degree in the United States in fine art . I especially love to paint from real life in oil. The liveliness and energy of my surroundings, the sky, the people, the landscapes, the street scenes, and their magical and endless changes move me. I seek to represent these subjects poetically and with emotion. I have participated and won prizes in many shows including the Oil Painters of America Annual Exhibition. Many of my painting are collected publicly and privately.

Bob Holloway

Bob Price Holloway is a native Missourian. Born in 1928 in Centralia, he was raised in nearby Columbia. In 1942, he moved to Kansas City where he attended Westport High School and was "inspired, motivated and taught" by art teacher Shelton Wilhite.

Professionally, he received on-the-job training in the commercial art department of Western Auto Supply Company. In 1954 he became an advertising agency art director, receiving many art directors club awards for both print and television throughout his career.

In 1952 he participated in his first art fair and has received numerous awards in painting and drawing. Today, he participates in 40 shows a year in over 17 states. His paintings, drawings and prints are displayed in homes and businesses in every state and the Virgin Islands and in several countries including Argentina, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg and Switzerland, just to name a few.

Glen Hunter

Glen currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri, near Liberty. He attended Longview and Maplewoods Community Colleges and the Kansas City Art Institute, with his major in Graphic Design.

Glen has worked almost exclusively with the airbrush for over 25 years in a variety of uses that includes photo retouching, graphic design and illustration and fine arts using acrylic oil paints and pigment dyes.

The particular series of paintings exhibited are a culmination of graphic and color experiments I have done attempting to give a three-dimensional quality to basic geometric shapes with the use of color and the airbrush. The airbrush is well suited for rendering objects using soft light and shadow, the technique of “chiaroscuro.”

Ideas for abstract paintings are first "roughed-in" and created in various computer graphic programs, analyzed, and modified until I feel the right combination of shapes and colors work together, then transferred to canvas, masked-off, and airbrushed to color match what was originally created in the computer.

Steve Cox

From Steve Cox’s twenty plus years in the jewelry industry, he approaches art jewelry from the standpoint that even though it is art, it is jewelry and needs to meet the demands of being worn.

Steve’s undaunted passion for the whole process in the creation of a piece raises his work above those who use commercial parts or findings. All pieces start as raw material. Melted down (alloyed if necessary), poured into ingots, forged and rolled into sheets. Some are drawn into wire (all chains are made from wire produced in his studio), some hammered, fused etc. He remains fluid enough to recognize those fortunate mistakes, unexpected texture or a pleasing curve that makes the final outcome more of a creative relationship between himself, the metal and the stone.

Lois Neal

My body of work in clay is slab constructed and wheelthrown vessels with thematic impressions and hand carved appendages attached for extension of form and continuity of style. These dramatic pieces are glazed with crackle or metallic reactive glazes and then fired using an atmospheric reduction process called Raku. This ancient Japanese firing method demands that a specially formulated clay body be used that can withstand the procedure of firing to approximately 1800 deg. F followed by rapid cooling. Each creation in clay has it's own unique variation in color due to the spontaneous nature of the firing technique. My husband and I established our art studio at Squires, MO, in 1992 having moved from Phoenix, AZ, where I recieved my clay education followed by years of teaching and exhib- iting in the Southwest. I am currently exhibiting at selected galleries and art fairs around the country.