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Back Roads Art is a folk-art gallery at 416 Main Street in Weston, Platte County, Missouri, stocking metalwork, chainsaw carvings and Native American art from more than forty makers, owned by Steve Jarrett and his wife.

Description

Back Roads Art occupies a storefront at 416 Main Street in Weston, a Platte County river town on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metro — not Weston, West Virginia, and not Weston-super-Mare.12 It is a few doors down Main from northland-artists-gallery at 519 Main Street. The two are separate businesses: Northland Artists’ is a juried artist cooperative of painters, potters and jewellers; Back Roads Art is a dealer shop of folk metal, wood and Native American work. This page is not a second write-up of that gallery.

The shop’s own site calls itself a folk art gallery and states that it features “the work of over 40 metal artists, several chainsaw carvers as well as Native American art from the Navajo and Sioux tribes,” aimed at yard, den, lake house or man cave, with stock that “constantly changes.” It also states that the shop brings professional chainsaw carvers to Weston each year to demonstrate.1 Visit Missouri’s civic listing, last modified 10 July 2026, describes “a folk art gallery in a restored 100-year-old building” carrying Missouri and neighbouring-state handmade work, including chainsaw sculptures of eagles, fish, turtles, frogs and bears, indoor and outdoor metal art, and American Indian art.2 The “100-year-old building” claim originates with that civic listing, not the shop’s own page, and is recorded as such. Building construction date is otherwise “.

Ava Breault’s Columbia Missourian tourism feature of 21 May 2026 quotes owner Steve Jarrett: “We stop in a lot of little art galleries and came across a lot of artists who do interesting stuff. I just wanted to put a shop together featuring a bunch of those artists.” He told the paper the inventory is “work from over 40 artists, a lot of metal artists, several chainsaw carvers, some Native American art,” including Sioux work from around Pine Ridge and Navajo work from New Mexico — “a mixed bag,” not traditional paintings or portraits.3

KCUR’s 14 September 2024 Weston guide listed the Back Roads Art Chainsaw Carving event (then dated 26 October 2024) among the town’s arts offerings, in the same paragraph as northland-artists-gallery, renditions, and weston-bend-candle-company.4 The shop’s Facebook page announced another demonstration for 25 October 2025, with carvers Gary Keenan and TJ Jenkins working in the parking lot of O’Malley’s Pub from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., carvings for sale at the event and year-round in the Main Street shop.5 Those two men are visiting demonstrators, not described as owners.

Name spelling is not uniform. The official domain and site title use the one-word Backroads Art; the homepage greeting, Facebook page, Visit Missouri, the Missourian and KCUR all use the two-word Back Roads Art. Both forms are aliases; neither is treated as a different shop.

Ownership and history

The Columbia Missourian (21 May 2026) states that the idea started in 2006 but “came to fruition in a storefront in 2011,” and that Steve Jarrett and his wife own the shop, inspired by Midwest and Southwest travels.3 The wife’s given name is not published in that piece, on the shop’s site, or on the Facebook about panel. A Google review aggregated by Wanderlog names a floor staffer “Denise”; that is a review, not an ownership document, and is not treated as identifying the co-owner. “ — wife’s name; legal entity; Missouri SOS filing (not searched; SOS is Cloudflare-blocked).

Visit Missouri’s schema datePublished of 20 June 2008 is a CMS date on a tourism listing, not an independent founding year, and it sits five years before the 2011 storefront date the Missourian gives. The two are not merged. The 2011 storefront date is the press figure used here; 2008 is the listing-record date only.

The Facebook page email is backroadsart@aol.com.6

Services

First-party and 2026 press, not assumed beyond what those sources name:1325

  • Retail sale of folk art: indoor and outdoor metal work, chainsaw sculpture, Navajo and Sioux pieces, other handmade work
  • Inventory rotated; new pieces posted to Facebook
  • Annual (or near-annual) public chainsaw-carving demonstrations in Weston, with carvings sold at the event and in the shop
  • Free admission to the gallery (Visit Missouri)

Custom carving by the shop itself is not stated on the pages fetched and is not assumed. The visiting carvers named on the 2025 Facebook post are Keenan and Jenkins, not in-house staff.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Backroads Art / Back Roads Art (official site), accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. “Back Roads Art,” Visit Missouri (Missouri Division of Tourism), accessed 2026-08-28; schema datePublished 2008-06-20, dateModified 2026-07-10. URL ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Ava Breault, “Back Roads Art in Weston specializes in unusual pieces from folk and local artists,” Columbia Missourian, 21 May 2026. URL ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Libby Hanssen, “Want to explore Weston, Missouri? Start with this beginner’s guide to the town,” KCUR 89.3, 14 September 2024. URL ↩

  5. Back Roads Art, “CHAINSAW CARVING IN WESTON!” Facebook post, 9 October 2025. URL ↩ ↩2

  6. Back Roads Art Facebook page, accessed 2026-08-28. URL ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/backroads-art · record updated 2026-09-08