Category Archives: FEATURED ARTIST

Little Dickens Winners featured for February

Guest artists, Jerry Polder and John McMahan are the featured artists beginning February 7th at Backstreet Gallery.  While these artists won Best of Show for their small pieces in the Little Dickens Miniature Show, this exhibit will surprise you with other pieces of their work. 

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Mary Beers * January’s Featured Artist

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Today is an exciting day at Backstreet Gallery because we are opening our doors after being closed for maintence for 10 days.  Our fresh gallery is now open and we are featureing the multi-faceted artist, Mary Beers.

Mary Beers is a multi-faceted artist. Combining multiple components, Beers loves to create with various beads, metals, seed beads, stones, then weave them into intricate pieces of beautiful and unique jewelry. She uses the various weaving stitches, stringing, and wire work in her creations, but weaving is her favorite.    Continue reading


Little Dickens Show, on display for December

Our annual Little Dickens Show, is hung in the gallery with care, in hopes of nice art lovers soon to be there…   The show is a miniature show, that we open to non-coop members to enter and display.  The winners get to show thier artwork later in the year, in our gallery.

Enjoy the festive reception for all the artists from 3-5 on Dec. 10th. 
Good cheer and great art to be enjoyed by all.

59 works are on display, 32 entries from our community, and 19 from BSG members.  Bill Durst was our juror and following artists won awards:

3D  
John McMahan – Have Madera My Dear – Best of Show
Kathleen Wenzel – Little Dickens Express – 2nd place
Kris DeNoyer – teapot – Temaku – Honorable Mention
 
2D  
Jerry Polder – Winter Woods – Best of Show
Kaye Guthrie – I tweet Om – 2nd
Betsy Norris – Fall and Fog – Honorable Mention

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