Brenda J Pressnall was born in the rural mid-west in the early 1960s; tart cherry pies, root cellars, and porch swings. Where even truck stops served good homemade food. Surrounded by vast tracts of corn and soy fields, she searched tilled land for arrowheads in towns named after the native americans that had been run out a century earlier. She grew up in a time when art was taught in public schools and even children in disadvantaged small towns were exposed to techniques like linoleum block printing, balsa wood construction, tile mosaic and painting. She tried everything...more
