Beer Cap Bird House
	Quantity in Basket: None Code: 6078 Price: $100.00 Shipping Weight: 2.60 pounds Product Dimensions: 10X9X7inches Author/Artist: McArthur Chism Materials: Bottle caps and wire Custom Shipping Info: custom shipping required Quantity:
As a child growing up in Water Valley, Mississippi, McArthur Chism became interested in drawing and sketched many aspects of his community, including houses, trees, cars, and other objects. It was during this time his grandmother gave him a couple of vases that had been made by wiring a series of bottle caps together. He remembered the vases while a teenager and tried to make one himself, using only wire and bottle caps. He soon began experimenting, creating several different items out of bottle caps, held together by wire from coat hangers and other metal scraps. He initially sold his work primarily to neighbors in Water Valley until the late 1980s when his work came to the attention of artists based around the University of Mississippi. He began showing his work at Southside Gallery in downtown Oxford in 1993 and later at numerous festivals and events in town. Local bars and drink distributors were among those who became his source for bottle caps which he arranged into colorful designs for ash trays, birdhouses, door mats, American flags, picture frames and crosses.

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