Artists
Artists
Like our authors, these individuals are extraordinarily passionate and creative. This year’s event promises to be a beautiful marriage of literature and art.
The completed chairs will be left on display in Omaha’s public libraries after the event. You may click on the artists’ names above to learn more about them and see more of their work.
Artistic Talent
Bill Hoover
Carlleta Harty
Linda Hatfield
Deborah McColley
James Freeman
Eddith Buis
Faith Enright
Rodney Rahl
The rocking chair was brought back into fashion in the 1960s by President Kennedy but furniture makers had started putting curved rockers under existing chairs from the beginning of the eighteenth century to make them more comfortable.
“We rock so our youth can write!”