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Urban Life in Technicolor Dreamscoat Untitled Mother and Child Summer Portrait
Artist: Michelle Edwards. Mixed Media. Artist: Michael Edwards. Medium: Acrylic Artist: Sheila Edwards. Medium: Acrylic
Size: 36.5 x 13 in. Size: 11 x14 in. Size: 16 x 20in.
Dear Friends:
We are pleased to welcome you to the Green Street Company’s Folk Art Portfolio. This photo gallery is a unique resource for serious collectors of black Americana and contemporary folk art. Husband and wife artists Michael and Sheila Edwards with their daughter Michelle founded the Green Street Company in 2004. We take pride and pleasure in creating wonderful hand-painted folk art objects. Whether you are interested in traditional folk art, mixed media collage art, or contemporary art, you are sure to fine what you are looking for here! To view specific category of art please click on the links below:
Americana Paintings and Decorative Folk Art : http://sites.google.com/site/greenstreetamericanafolkart/
Contemporary Paintings and Decorative Folk Art: http://sites.google.com/site/greenstreetcontemporaryfolkart/
Folk Art Dolls - African American/Ethnic: http://sites.google.com/site/greenstreetcompanyfolkartdolls/
Many define folk art as being produced by untrained artists that have garnered their skill from those of prior generations. Thus the techniques are handed down over time, often with little change, representing the true aesthetic values of a people offering a look into the depths of their culture. While growing up in Kansas, Sheila’s mother designed and crafted paper dolls for her children. By carefully watching her mother, Sheila learned how to make paper dolls on her own. Recognizing a market for paper dolls at her local elementary school, she began selling them to her classmates. By the age of seven she had a full-fled paper doll business with designs that would later influence her artwork as an adult.
In 1967, Sheila married Michael Edwards. After initially pursuing respective work in social service and educational administration, the couple decided to become self-taught folk artists. In 1983 they founded Sheila Ann Originals/Country and Crafts in Kansas City, Kansas. They specialized in pattern making, quilts, and soft sculptured items. In 2004, the couple, now residing in Massachusetts, renamed their business The Green Street Company and also began painting their designs on wood, tin, and canvasses.
The couple involved their four children in the folk art business. Their youngest daughter, Michelle, learned to paint by watching her parents. She began selling her own folk art, professionally, at eleven years old. In 2000; Michelle however, after taking several years off because she discovered boys and went off to college, decided to branch out on her own. She developed her own line of Contemporary/Urban folk art. Michelle’s objective was to infuse an affordable and contemporary line of Americana folk art to the existing Green Street Company repertoire. This family of artists participates in a number of arts and crafts shows and Black memorabilita shows throughout the year. We primarily do shows in the Northeastern and Southerneastern United States.
The Tire Swing Mixed Media Colleage on Wooden Box My Favorite Things
Artist: Michelle Edwards Artist: Michelle Edwards Artist: Michelle Edwards
Mixed Media. Size: 5 x 7 in. Mixed Media. Size: 5 x 7 in
The Edwards family believes in the power of our distinctive art to stimulate the intellect, to delight the human spirit, and to contribute to the growing diversity of Americana folk art cultural traditions, popularized by the artistic works of Grandma Moses. If you love black Americana art as much as we do in our family shop, you will be thrilled by our unique collection of traditional and contemporary folk art paintings, ethnic dolls, and more!
Sheila, Michael, and Michelle Edwards
Contact Information: To find out if we will participating in an art show near you, you may contact us directly by email at: greenstreetcompanyfolkart@yahoo.com. Our work can also be viewed and/or purchased at: http://www.greenstreetcompanyfolkart.com.
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Handmade Doll (Sold) Children's School Desk (Sold) Skip To My Lou Untitled Decorative Art
Artist: Sheila Edwards Artist: Michael Edwards Artist: Michelle Edwards Artist: Sheila Edwards
Medium: Cloth, clay Medium: Acrylic Mixed Media. Size: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Acrylic. Size 5 x 1/2in.
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