detour art – the book

“Detour Art takes us on a back-roads trip through the American countryside to drop in on some of our most natural artistic resources—the kind of people who create art for all kinds of reasons, but mostly just for themselves. It feels like a series of short (and delightful) encounters—with some fellow human beings who somehow discovered the secrets to becoming fully alive.”
- Roger Manley, photographer, curator, folklorist, and author of Signs and Wonders, Self-Made Worlds, and Weird Carolinas.

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“Detour Art takes us on a back-roads trip through the American countryside to drop in on some of our most natural artistic resources—the kind of people who create art for all kinds of reasons, but mostly just for themselves. It feels like a series of short (and delightful) encounters—with some fellow human beings who somehow discovered the secrets to becoming fully alive.”

- Roger Manley, photographer, curator, folklorist, and author of Signs and Wonders, Self-Made Worlds, and Weird Carolinas.

Detour Art highlights art and images by visionaries, untrained artists, and folk creators found along the back roads of America.  It honors the creative spirit that is at once traditional and whimsical, spiritual and irreverent, earthy and sublime. This full-color, hard cover book features 99 artists and 40 environments from all over the  country, including  many in our own backyard.

9.5 x 11  |  hard cover  |  $29.95


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home court advantage

“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place—deep in the Wisconsin woods an old barrel hoop nailed to a tree, or a weather-beaten shed on the Mexican border with a rusty iron hoop nailed to one end.”
— Dr. James Naismith

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“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place—deep in the Wisconsin woods an old barrel hoop nailed to a tree, or a weather-beaten shed on the Mexican border with a rusty iron hoop nailed to one end.”

— Dr. James Naismith

Home Court Advantage captures basketball’s simple beauty through photographs of America’s countryside courts by photographer/designer Kelly Ludwig and passages from some of the game’s greatest names. Introduction by Blair Kerkhoff, sports editor for the Kansas City Star.

11 x 9.5  |  soft bound  |  $24.95


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travel-o-pedia

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Get your very own Travel-o-Pedia from KCPT

Since 1995, Randy Mason, Mike Murphy and Don “The Camera Guy” Mayberger have rolled across America in a minivan, exploring the road less traveled for Public TV.

They’ve searched high and low for grassroots artists and offbeat attractions, i.e.
“Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations.”

Since 1995, Randy Mason, Mike Murphy and Don “The Camera Guy” Mayberger have rolled across America in a minivan, exploring the road less traveled for Public TV.

They’ve searched high and low for grassroots artists and offbeat attractions, i.e. “Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations.”

This handy, fit-in-the-glovebox Travel-o-Pedia is a compilation of stories and listings of over 750 of their favorite artists, sights and eateries across the country in one full color, comprehensive compendium.  Perfect for anyone that loves to get in the car and explore!

10 x 7  |  soft bound  |  $24.95

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