Mick Braa, a.k.a. The “hunch-back of no acclaim,” presents the creative obsessions of a Finnish (thick skinned) and Scotch-Irish (thick headed) heritage. Traditional paintings include landscape, still-life, and figurative subjects rendered in varied styles from realistic to impressionistic, from abstract to cartoon. His dye-painted fabric wall hangings (soft paintings) are self-evolving (unplanned) and especially demonstrate obsessive layerings of form, color and line. Small works in wood, clay, stained glass and metal round out his curious offerings. Trained primarily as a painter, Mick Braa taught basic classes in nearly every traditional art and fine craft medium, and worked in educational & presentation media, publications and non-profit programming for over 20 years before returning to his personal creative work in the early 90’s. A number of his traditional landscape works were selected for exhibit in Cedarcrest, the Kansas Governor’s Mansion in 1995 and 1996. He is also known in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State where he spent a dozen summers painting, hiking and assisting a two-county arts council serving the Lake Placid, High Peaks region. Over the last 25 years he has exhibited a modest sampling of fabric works, paintings, drawings, prints, turned wooden bowls and small decorative 3-D pieces in the greater Lawrence, Kansas area and now emphasizes creating commissioned works to fit a patron’s interests and display settings.