If there's one thing that 58-year-old Austrian-born artist Maria Huber Windisch doesn't want to become, it's a "sach idiot." It's a phrase in her native tongue that roughly translates to "specialized idiot" in English and represents a boundary in her own creativity. "It's (someone) that knows a lot about very, very little and nothing about everything else," she says. Throughout a life that has brought her from Switzerland to California to St. Joseph, she's worked in a variety of styles and mediums and puts as much artistic effort into painting and sculpture as she does interior design and woodwork. As long as Windisch is moving and creating in any capacity, she feels like she's doing what she was born to do and making work that is unmistakably her own. "I'm not a person that fits into those kind of frames that are made for us," Windisch says. "I want to keep my style. ... It's changing all the time but it's still me." Mary Huber Windisch's work will be on display at the Performing Arts Association building as part of the tonight's First Friday Art Crawl in downtown St. Joseph.