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KANGAS ARTICLES & BOOKS.  Gene and Linda Kangas have written over 160 Articles and a dozen Books and Exhibition Catalogs during the past 35 years.    We are archiving complete articles including photographs and excerpted book and catalog texts with photographs to Creekside Art Gallery Blog.   Each can be downloaded and printed out for your convenience.  Please come back to look for more on a monthly basis!

Subjects include Waterfowl Decoys, American Historic and Contemporary Folk Art, International Folk Art, Biographies of Artists and Collectors, and Contemporary and Antique Woodturning including 19th and 20th century Peaseware.

Books & Catalogs Available for Purchase:  We are happy to personalize autographed books and catalogs; most are also available discounted in multiples.

Want your book, article or catalog written?  Contact us at  Creekside Art Gallery.

Much like the grass–roots effort of Fall 1997 that produced OUT OF FOCUS, turners’ first Internet salon de refuse, PATHWAYS was an independent venture. It received support from a variety of private and public sources, and suggests the potential of what can be accomplished by a few dedicated individuals with vision and enthusiasm. For the first time, practitioners were offered an exhibition opportunity with distinct categories which acknowledged the variety of attitudes and avenues within the field. Sculpture was recognized as having distinct and separate intentions from other work which addressed utility, scale, material, or the major vessel types. The Peaseware component of the exhibition presented a portion of the field’s past in the belief that history helps to nurture contemporary investigations; an attitude that was integral to the American Association of Woodturner’s 1997 TURNED FOR USE exhibition, and is very much a part of the Wood Turning Center’s mission. This catalog continued the interest in documentation via the affordable black/white format which was established by the two previous AAW exhibitions while it raised the standards for size and presentation quality and adds a distinctive color component. 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 »