Local Jefferson man creates one-of-a-kind folk art inspired by Iowan countryside

An artist, a musician, a creator, a mechanic; as long as it involves working with your hands, Ken Bose is all in. After being ranked number one in artistic ability, and number two in mechanical ability in high school, he jokingly says he chose mechanics because he had heard artists starve.

Initially from Yale, Iowa, Bose has lived and worked in rural Iowa his whole life. He says that he has been creating and building things for nearly as long as he can remember, which began as a way for him to relax, and he even has the artwork from his teenage years hanging in his workspace to prove it. A picture that was originally painted for his sister, a sketch of hands praying, and even a clock with his favorite Looney Toons character, they’re all there to showcase his wide swath of artistic ability.

So, after suffering a bicep injury that prevented him from continuing his work as a mechanic, the Minister in him turned to God to ask Him what was next. “I kept having this feeling in the back of my mind, birdhouses,” said Bose. “It was almost constant, and I knew I needed to just go for it.”

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