Price Talent Shop LLC
A Family Legacy of Service and Creativity
The Shop concept comes from Marji Price’s childhood memories of the family cabin in Island Park, Idaho. There, she often enjoyed conversations with her dad amid the sweet smell of sawdust and the whip of whirring saws – as Rex expertly crafted home improvements and a number of innovations. The memories of their conversations, and of watching the creative process in motion, are among Marji’s greatest treasures.
To all who knew him, Rex Price was a consummate listener and a builder of souls as well—and over the years Marji watched him skillfully shape a loving family, lifelong friendships, and lasting character in his children. Rex and his wife, Kathryn, also encouraged their children to pursue their talents and use them in serving others. Rex, Kay, and nine of their eleven children served volunteer missions for their church – with a combined total of 20 years spent in Brazil, Denmark, the Pacific Islands, Panama, Peru, Scotland, and the Eastern and Southern States. Many of Rex and Kay’s grandchildren and great grandchildren have since then followed in those family footsteps. Additionally, some of Rex and Kay’s children and grandchildren have served in healthcare professions and in the military – devoting a part of their lives to protecting the lives of others.
All members of the family have pursued the use of their God-given talents in a unique way, and so the “Price Talent Shop” also serves as an information hub and virtual gathering place to share the family’s work – and the work of other innovators who are friends of the family. Some of those talents are featured on this page and throughout the website, with more to come.
Artists, Authors, and Innovators
Artists
Clark Kelley Price
Clark spent his early years living in a log cabin his parents built in Montana. Surrounded by nature, Clark developed an appreciation for the land as well as an ability to observe details that many overlook. He has been able to recall from memory his observations and experiences to create the art for which he has become known. His work ranges from religious art to scenes of the old west.
Clark is well-known in the Western art world, with his work compared to that of master Western artists and originals that are highly sought after. His paintings are found in private collections throughout the world, and Clark is a member of the Cowboy Artists of America.
Rex Price
Rex Price is proof positive that the apple doesn’t fall far from the creative tree. As the son of Clark Kelley Price, an internationally known western artist, Rex is blazing trails of his own in the genre of religious art. Rex is currently majoring in Art at Brigham Young University-Idaho, and when he can he likes to spend time painting alongside his dad at the family studio in Star Valley, Wyoming.
You can find Rex on Facebook and order prints of his work.
Daniel Price
Daniel Price loves painting in the styles of photo-realism, impressionism, and abstract. He finds inspiration in nature, and paints landscapes from photos taken during his travels throughout the West. Daniel especially likes to focus on the beautiful mountains, lakes, rivers, and sunsets of his Utah home. Daniel’s work can be viewed in Gallery 25 of Ogden, Utah, where he paints during the day and greets visitors to the gallery. Some of his work is also displayed in the Davis County Administration building.
You can view an article recently written about Daniel on KSL.com here:
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Barbara Price
Barbara Price’s love of art has been a lifelong passion. After completing a Bachelor’s Degree in Art Education at Brigham Young University in 1967, she married and began a family—and set her art aside for many years. Then, with the family grown and her husband retiring in 1998, Barbara rediscovered her love for the brush and started painting with pastels, acrylics, watercolors, and oil. Her vivid and beautiful portraits, landscapes and seascapes have captured the imagination of family, friends, and art lovers. Barbara recently received Honorable Mention for a painting entered into the Black and White Competition at the Eccles Art Center in Ogden, Utah. She also shows her work at Gallery 25 in Ogden.
You can view an article recently written about Barbara on KSL.com here:
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Authors
Paul Price
Paul Price was born and raised in Southeastern Idaho and has lived in Northern California for the past forty years. He is married to Christine Pinegar and they have been married for forty three years and have seven children and seven grandchildren. Christine is a home school administrator and teacher with the San Juan School District and Paul is a registered Financial Advisor and Principle with Questar Capital Asset Management. He has worked in the financial services industry for 25 years. Paul holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and a Master of Education, both from California State University. He is the author of 3 books: Childhood Dying, containing empirical research and a look at some of the ramifications on our children when pushed too hard and too fast in school; Last Chance is about the spiritual side of fly fishing; and Spiritual Honesty is a treatise on, well, spiritual things.
Innovators
Rex T. Price
Rex T. Price, family patriarch, was a builder by trade – and in the 1960’s he purchased 125 acres, with intent to create a new mountain cabin development in a little-known place called Last Chance, Idaho (aka Island Park). He and business partner, Ed Stroble, designed and built some of the first cabins in the area.
Rex and Ed’s families enjoyed idyllic summers and adventurous winters in the mountains at Last Chance. They have great memories of the swimming hole called “Buffalo,” of floating and fly fishing on the Snake River, buying snacks and groceries at Ponds Lodge, camping in West Yellowstone, attending “cowboy church” at the A-frame chapel near Mack’s Inn, snowshoeing to their cabins in the winter and then trading them in for their first Polaris snowmobiles – and just drinking in the mountain beauty that surrounded them.
Rex also wanted his kids to learn the value of work, so he taught his oldest children to build and manage the family gas station in Last Chance – complete with a small store and bait shop. The station opened for business in the summer of 1961, across the road from Frank and John Kuck’s Chevron station and the Last Chance Motel. And, while the kids all learned the value of work, they found plenty of time for fun as well. One of the boys’ favorite “fish tales” included teasing visitors from other states and countries, that they would need BIG fishing lures and STRONG lines for the “freshwater sharks” found in “Snake Lake” across the highway.
Today, you can still see the first model cabin that Rex built – located behind what used to be the family gas station, and is now the Shell gas station. Many of the family’s fish tales and other memories of the area are captured in Paul Price’s book “Last Chance,” available on Amazon.com.
Marji Price
As a college instructor, Marji has met some amazingly talented young artists and entrepreneurs over the years – and has come to believe that collaborating with them and promoting their talent is an important part of “paying it forward” for all the growth experiences God has lovingly placed in her path.
Marji’s newest venture is the creation of a housing development in a rural farming area outside Rexburg, Idaho, called “Country Cottages.” This pocket community is designed with the Tiny Home movement in mind, and intended to make affordable homes of 200-900 square feet available to 1st time buyers, empty nesters, family investors, and nomads like herself – who consider having a “low-to-no mortgage” and the freedom to travel important facets of living well.
Marji has teamed up with a talented young builder and graduate of the BYU-Idaho Engineering program, whose main ambition is to travel to other countries – designing and building innovative, affordable housing that changes lives and empowers others – as his life’s mission. (More to come on Joshua Ruby).
