The Lesson

The Lesson

This piece was titled by Cherry Brooks, award-winning blues and soul singer from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. From her early days with Loose Gravel to leading the Brooks Family Band, she left a lasting mark on Southern music and was later inducted into the Ozark Music Awards...
Beau Satori

Beau Satori

Today’s installment from the Rediscovered Art of James Yale takes me to Eureka Springs to interview  Beau Satori about the stories behind the original art he owns that include the oil painting of Erin Foster, and the two pen and ink drawings James created to...
Unexpected Gifts

Unexpected Gifts

These two sketches were created by James in the early 2000s, both unexpected gifts, offered without ceremony. He was simply doing art, and for reasons I’ll never know, I became his subject. I don’t recall ever modeling for them, which makes their origin all the more...