Welcome to
Prairie House Gallery®!
November 29, 2011
Happy Holidays but Sorry to Disappoint!
Because of reacent changes in the laws governing internet commerce in Illinois, we have made the decision to cease selling on Prairie House--at least for now. Recent changes in the state laws have made the amount of work too demanding for a site that is a labour of love rather than a profit-making venture. Until we we can wade through the new regulations to be certain we are in compliance, we have chosen to temporarily stop selling directly. We hope to open again in the near future, with a different artistic focus. (It took a lot of work to hand-delete all those pages.)
For now,we will direct you to other gallery sites that carry similar materials. We will look for ways to come back to you. Over the Christmas break, we'll try to figure out how we can continue. For now, we will continue with just with list a few key items by our core artists and include links and referals to other sites.
We continue our committment to Kiva.org, and we invite you to visit our lender page at http://www.kiva.org/lender/marijo4657. We have also donated money toward the planting of trees in both the Arbour Day forest fire restoration project and their rain forest rescue!
We still have the link for Ms. Sandra Sula's website. She is a former Praire House artist who now has her own gallery (see below). She has added some more work in the last month. Also, one of our artists has just published her first books of poetry. Click on the link below to see her work in a different medium.
If you are in the Chicagoland area, we also encourage you to visit a new mural by her husband and fellow artist and paleontologist, Robert Sula, at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Elmhurst Illinois. All 11 species in the painting are meticulous reproductions of fossils from the Devonian era Bundenbach ecosystem in Germany. This formation is a lagerstatten, a site where soft-bodied organisms also fossilized.
Thank you for visiting! 
Our friend and former exhibitor,Sondra Sula, has just posted some new pieces on her website too! We encourage you to visit Sondra's site and puruse her pieces.
Mrs. Burk, The book of Poetry by M. Readey, went to this fall's Bejing Book Fair! This book, and her other book of poetry, Shadows Cast and Lonesome Prayers, can be found on her LuLu page. She hopes to soon release another book called A Sample of My Work. We'll keep you updated.
The following short story, The Box of Poems, by the same author is now available as an ebook for $0.99 US. The author has copyrighted the story, but has opted not to copy protect it. If you purchase it, and you like it, you are free to share it with others. Happy Holidays from her.
Noble International University: Devoted to Environmental Peace
Why We Can No Longer
Offer Books Through Amazon
Until recently, we offerred our customers links to our favourate books through Amazon. Because of recent changes in the tax laws in our home state, Amazon is no longer offering this service in our region. Although we would have loved to continue this service for our customers, the decision to terminate the affiliates program was out of our control. We will continue to provide links to books copyrighted and published by autors affiliated with our gallery. Thank you for your understanding.