Member Spotlight – John Stout

Member Spotlight: John Stout, 3rd Generation of Artists & Craftsmen. John has lived in Weatherford for 30 years, and has been married to Judith Ann, a respiratory therapist, for 20 years. Between them they have a blended family of eight artistic children. John’s first recorded art work was a drawing of a German airplane in the front of the family bible at age four. Raised in his dad’s sign-advertising business from the age of 14, John continued in the business after the army for 53 years and incorporated his businesses, such as, nose art for military planes, pin striping cars and motorcycles nationwide, painting race cars, painting logos for 17 years for 4 horse associations, murals for private homes & buildings. Local man, J. W. Brown, who recently died, started building stagecoaches in 1976, and John joined him in 1984, painting 42 of the 62 stagecoaches J. W. built. One is currently on display in the Doss. The Peach Festival mural on the side of the Down Town Café on the Square is John’s work as well as the murals inside the café. John also painted the murals at the Mader-Bagley Insurance Building. The hand-carved Jesus on the Cross displayed at Christ the King Covenant Church was designed and carved by John as well as the seven foot duplicate at their sister church in Mineral wells. He has sold various forms of his art in every state and five foreign countries. Besides teaching art through several art associations, John has been WAA Artist of the Month three times.

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