Bad girl Margie Kinsley has creativity that goes boom-boom-pow

We’ve featured almost two dozen Stark County artists on the site over the past 8 months. Each time we feature a hearted artist, we’re surprised again by the sheer diversity of the creative minds in our community. Surprised … and delighted.

This week, Margie Kinsley is showing us how creativity, while instinctive, is labyrinthine work through and through.

Uncle Dreg adds a technicolor gleam coat to the world of photography

We’re back after ringing in 2010! In a year with so many unknowns and thus so many possibilities, it makes sense that our first hearted artist of the the New Year would be unbound by convention, unrestricted by fear and unwilling to ignore the compulsion to experiment.

Craig “Uncle Dreg” Booth might claim to not have a clue what he’s doing, and maybe he doesn’t, but the result is extremely cool.

Thom Metz takes us to the edge of the world, and the devil may care

Try as he might, photographer Thom Metz couldn’t seem to escape his fate as a photographer of people, places and things, despite his best efforts to shift careers.

It takes a daring eye to capture these moments like he does. There’s no “fortunate accident” in his shutter work, he photographs while weaving a fastidious story into what appears in the viewfinder.

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