Welcome to Merida Ventures windows of treasures

This is to be like a little store front window I once knew on Greenwich Avenue in the West Village in New York City. I never went in nor did I ever see anyone inside, the door was always locked. The small unlit window always held fantastic little treasures that someone had found in the city, and exhibited them in this window, I use to think that they were for sale, as they would be replace by something else the next time that I passed. Maybe they were an art creation or just sharing their collection. It was always a delight to stand there and look and desire these unusual mysterious eclectic objects. It was short of a museum experience.

I look around me today and feel some of the same feeling of looking in that window on Greenwich Avenue. Over the years I have collected many eclectic objects, art, artifacts, books, some unusual, some unique, some familiar always something that caught my eye, something that I wanted to know something more about, or a book that I thought would give me information about things that I did not know.

I have created this site to offer for sale some of these items that I have assembled over the years. I hope that you will find them interesting and perhaps find an unusual treasure in my mysterious windows that you would like to own or collect.  I hope that you will return many times to see new things that have been added.

 About Fred Merida

I have been in relevant art activities since 1954. Studio trained at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Brooklyn Museum School. After military service and living a year in Ghent, Belgium. I returned to Louisville and in 1965 opened one of the first fine arts galleries, and continued in the art galley business until 1984. Since then I have participated in national antique and ephemera shows until 1999. I have conducted the merida_art site on eBay since 1999, feed back from those sales attest to my integrity and commitment to my customers. I have been a corporate art curator, for Hilliard and Lyons Company, Louisville, Kentucky and CSI Company in Paducah, Kentucky.  I have served as art consultant and as a professional certified fine art appraiser. I am listed in Who's Who in American Art. 1986-

I have  bought compulsively over the years objects construed as interesting treasures some that I still enjoy and cherish.

I have been an award winning exhibiting artist throughout my life. I still make art.