Donna Rhodes's life passions are writing, painting, teaching, and early music performing. This is her 15th year as staff writer for The Laurel Magazine in Western North Carolina. Among her writing credits: craft books, weaving tutorials, and dozens of articles featured in national fine art and craft periodicals (Threads, Fiberats, Sew News, Soft Dolls and Animals, and more). After retiring as a music, art, and AP Art History teacher, she sculpts and paints, specializing in whimsical and found-object assemblages. She paints commissioned animal portraits, immortalizing furry friends in word and image. She co-created a children's show, Diddle Daddle, aired on PBS, WUCF. Just for fun she appeared in a Nike commercial drumming a rollicking King Henry VIII tune on doumbek. On her horizon is the opening of a folk art Airbnb filled with hand-painted junk, funk, and a bodacious bird bed.
