about us
Step inside and you won’t find a hushed, white walled room where you feel like you shouldn’t ask a price. You’ll find three floors of paintings, sculpture, glass and clay, hung the way you might hang them at home, and someone genuinely glad you stopped in.
That’s not a design choice. For years, this building was our home : the gallery downstairs, the family upstairs, the art never more than a room away. Fine Art For Everyone isn’t a slogan we came up with. It’s the way we’ve always lived.
In 1993, Pam Bundy moved home from Raleigh and opened a small folk art and animation gallery in the basement of this building. Her mother’s consignment shop filled the main floor above, and Pam lived in the back room.
Mike McKay was managing hotels at the time. Not long after the doors opened, he left that career to help, picking up shifts at the consignment shop and eventually opening a custom frame shop of his own. They married in 1994.
As the gallery grew, so did the family. The consignment shop consolidated into the Hardin Fine Jewelry next door, Pam and Mike expanded onto the main floor, and the McKays moved in upstairs. Their first son, Morgan, was born in 1998 at the old Cannon Memorial Hospital, a couple hundred yards away. As the story goes, Pam walked home, because Mike had clients in the gallery and couldn’t leave. That tells you a good deal about the early years.
By the time their second son, Mason, arrived in 2001, Pam was studying interior design and had joined Dianne Davant & Associates, where she has worked ever since and is now a part owner. That eye for how art lives in a room shapes every wall here.
Morgan and Mason Grew up in this building, and a few years ago both came home to learn the family trade. Today the gallery fills all three floors, and the next chapter is already underway through Cellar Studios and aesthete.
More than thirty years later, we’re still at 920 Shawneehaw Avenue, still in the same building, and still glad you stopped in.
Pam McKay, ASID
owner / gallerist
Hailee Seifried
gallery director
Arrington Hense
framer / curatorial assistant
Mason McKay
designer / fabricator
Morgan McKay
creative director
meet our team
Pam works in two worlds that turn out to be the same one. As a gallerist, she has spent more than thirty years building our circle of artists, one relationship at a time. As an interior designer and part owner of Dianne Davant & Associates, she can picture a painting over your sofa or down your stairwell before it ever leaves our wall, and many of our clients know her from both. She runs it all from a yellow legal pad. If you catch her on a Sunday in a baseball cap, don't be fooled. That's Sunday Pam : no day off, just a different outfit.
Many of our clients knew Hailee before she ever joined the gallery, from her time in food and beverage at country clubs across the High Country. She started here as curator of collections and sales associate, then stepped into the gallery director role without missing a beat. She studied geography at App State with a focus on mapmaking, and it shows : she reads a room the way a cartographer reads a landscape. She's also the first person to make real progress moving our paper notebooks into the digital age, without being asked. If you've read Pam's bio, you know that's no small feat. Planning a visit? Ask for Hailee.
A High Country native, Arrington studied art at App State and worked in construction and fabrication before joining us, designing her own tie-dye on the side. Today she runs our frame shop. Every piece framed here passes through her hands for fitting and finishing, where the art, mat and glass come together in the frame, so if you've picked up framing from us lately, she was the last person to touch it before you did. Outside the frame shop, she's our chameleon : on the gallery floor, behind the counter, on the table saw, or making the most addicting cookies you'll never stop thinking about.
The youngest McKay was born while the family still lived upstairs. He earned his degree in Industrial Design from Appalachian State with a focus on furniture, then interned at COHAB.Space in High Point through fall High Point Market, the furniture industry's biggest week of the year. Next time you're in, look at the display shelves. Mason built those. He has also made chandeliers that now hang in rooms Pam has designed. Now he's home full time, and his best work is still on the workbench.
From the crib to the camera. Like his brother, Morgan grew up on the top floor of this building, then played two seasons of Division I basketball at Arkansas State. He then transferred to Hampden-Sydney, where he traded his sneakers for a camera and finished with a minor in fine art focused on photography and 2D design. He came home in 2023. If you've opened an aesthete lookbook, picked up an artist-painted coffee sleeve at Mountain Grounds, or read one of our emails all the way to the end, chances are that was Morgan's doing. The goal hasn't changed since he walked back in : make the next thirty years as good as the first.