Creekside Art Gallery Blog

 When people first began to paint and sculpt, they portrayed those things around them that had very special significance. Tens of thousands of years ago they enlivened the hidden walls of their protective caves with impressions of magical four-footed animals. Once dark galleries in the earth were transformed into places of wonderment, which continue to intrigue us today. Now visitors go to experience the total environments, to think about the people who created them, and to time travel. Mental images link us with others like ourselves, who also required the same daily essentials of food, drink, and sleep. Like us, they dreamed, loved, laughed, and wept. Like the animals, they also migrated. And, when afforded the leisure opportunity to collect their thoughts, some chose to record personal experiences, inventing methods for that purpose. They made art and enriched lives. More »

Pease is a name well-recognized as a family associated with the production of high quality nineteenth century hand-turned woodenware. Born in New England, David Mills Pease (1815-1890) was the patriarch of a new business started by him in northeastern Ohio in 1850. With three of his sons, David operated first one and later a second woodturning mill in Cascade Valley in Concord, Ohio. The small, picturesque community was a thriving, self-reliant manufacturing beehive. By 1875 approximately two dozen mills of various endeavors were powered by the beautiful flowing waters of Big Creek and other local streams which feed into Lake Erie. One of those who realized an existing opportunity and capitalized on the idyllic circumstances was Otis Almon Brown (1859-1923) whose family also has a protracted history in the area. More »