c.m. laster

CM Laster grew up in rural Kentucky and "found out" he was an artist in first grade when his teacher praised his drawings on his spelling tests. In the mid-1990s, Laster met Howard Finster and formed a strong friendship he helped coordinate events and led art workshops at Finster's Paradise Garden for several years. Today, CM, his wife Grace Kelly, and their daughter Ruby Elvis Rose are a family of artists traveling the country in their third art car, the Inner Galactic Shack-o-llac. Their work is in the permanent collections of the American Visionary Art Museum, The House of Blues, The Bill Clinton Presidential Library, and the Library of Congress Folk Life Center and at the Historical Society of Washington, DC.