The 48-year-old artist’s creative process is spontaneous and he uses oil and acrylic paints to fill textures on canvas. He later paints forms instinctively using a brush on this textured background.

As someone who’s lived in America for only two years, Marshalltown High School senior Rashid Kaamu finds a way to express himself through art and capture moments of Americana through photography.

Americana Week, for me ... Sotheby’s and Christie’s mount sales of old American furniture and silver, folk painting, duck decoys and weathervanes, samplers embroidered by teenage girls ...