Melody McConaughy creates one-of-a-kind sculptural works, crafted from her personal collection of materials found all over the countryside. She uses wood, beads, spoons and forks as well as so many other objects to create her art.
Classically-trained and well-loved as a teacher and school administrator, Melody stopped the classroom to envision the objects percolating from her active mind and assemble from her storehouse of amazing and wondrous bounty hidden in the hills of Prescott for a time. She is now back teaching Art Class at Skyview School. She brings the students not only her ideas of what is art, she also encouraged them to think outside the box. Recently, she headed up a movement to create adorned mirrors for the Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery in her class room of students.
Melody talks about "Keeping The West Alive", by reclaimed, recycled, reinvented, recreated: the playful artworks of Melody McConaughy are 
brashly expressive in the authenticity of their materials.
Weathered, rusting and rugged, gracefully-aged elements survive to keep the West Alive.
Drop by Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery on Historical Whiskey Row to see Melody's work.
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