Paula McCullough
Paula is a self-taught artist who got her start in the Green Mountains of northern Vermont. Paula relocated to Huntsville, TX in 2009 to work with Phoenix Commotion. It is believed that she is the only person in Huntsville that has ever moved here from Vermont. She works exclusively with reclaimed materials and found objects.
"Working with pieces of wood, bone and metal that no longer appear to have a purpose brings out a very basic desire in me to make them useful again. Found objects, especially those that have been weathered by the elements and time are so beautiful."
You can see more of Paula's art on her website www.paulaart.com
Dan Phillips
Dan along with his wife, Marsha founded Phoenix Commotion in 1997 when they took out a second mortgage on their home. Since then all of Dan's artistic passions have gone into designing the homes he and his crew have built. Roofs, floors, ceilings, walls, windows, skylights, cabinets, chandeliers, windows have all been created out of surprising materials and forms to express his vision. Now Dan is sparingly using his time to design functional works of art for your home. When asked about a piece in the works Dan's favorite reply is "I'm going to make something really outrageous! "
Robert Maninger
Bob is an Assistant Professor at Sam Houston University here in Huntsville, TX. He has helped build the Bone House and will be one of the artist in residents at the Bone House/Artist Studio when it is completed in 2010.
"My artistic bent began with my association with my girlfriend Edie Wells who grew my desire to take stimulating pictures and begin to construct altered books and paint. My desire to work on artistic furniture started with a visit to South Congress in Austin and inspiration followed. I usually dumpster dive for pieces and then alter them in some fashion with bottle cap tops or sign tops. I then evolved into the idea of rustic style furniture through my association with Dan Phillips."
Linda Judge Zapalac
Around 2005 I began working with stained glass scraps by creating abstract glass mosaics on discarded wooden windows. Shortly after that, I experimented with using pieces of broken tempered glass as a mosaic tesserae on wood, cement board and glass. I love every aspect of working with glass: color and design possibilities, light reflection, seeking and reusing materials that might be bound for the landfill.
I have a twenty-plus-year background of working with quilting, fused and stained glass, pottery on the wheel, collage, papier mache, mosaics. I have recently attended a workshop in tempered glass and grouting from the Creative Arts Center in Dallas, and I am a member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA).
I work in the style of "spontaneous mosaics," a phrase coined by a wonderful international artist, Ilana Shafir. Each unique piece is chosen according to materials at hand, wherein the materials aren't altered in form, the form is altered by the materials.
My website is www.glasscycle.com. Presently I am a full-time member of the Phoenix Commotion construction crew.