One visit to Stan Street’s Hambone Art Gallery in Clarksdale and it’s obvious that he deeply loves all aspects of the blues. Though he began his art career as a schooled drummer, as he traveled the blues festivals and honky-tonks of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, he gained a valuable artist’s perspective on the blues and its culture. For over a decade, that unique perspective has been featured as the poster artwork and T-shirt art for over 50 blues events in the U.S., Canada and Norway. His gallery features many of those blues festival posters, blues artists’ portraits, Delta art prints, and blues folk art. His artwork is owned by Morgan Freeman, Robert Plant, and nearly every other visitor to his Hambone Gallery. Street’s goal is for his art to always have a primitive feel to it with movement and life.
