Melissa Strawser, Author of Everyday Art Folk Art was raised in a socioeconomic family setting with self-taught folk artists.  She is 4th generation with a studio art practice in sculpture and intaglio printmaking since the age of 19.  Melissa is launching her first book  'in loving memory and dedication' to a legacy about her beautiful Mother, Barbara Strawser, a self-taught folk painter of Pennsylvania Dutch German heritage.  To celebrate the 500th year of Martyrs' Mirror &  Anabaptism, illuminated manuscripts and folk art; this is the first book about her devotion to 5 generations of 'Women in Folk Art ' with historical, generational artistry and creative genius.