Hoodoo MO Outsider Art Gallery - Minnie Adkins

<BODY BGCOLOR="#fdad42" TEXT="#ffffff" LINK="#ff0000" ALINK="#ff8040" VLINK="#ffff00"> <P><CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+3" FACE="BernhardMod BT">Minnie Adkins<BR> <BR> <IMG SRC="minniea01.jpg" WIDTH="500" HEIGHT="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" NATURALSIZEFLAG="2"><BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+1" FACE="BernhardMod BT">Minnie Adkins and Tess Little</FONT></B></CENTER></P> <P><CENTER> </CENTER></P> <P><B><FONT COLOR="#000099" FACE="BernhardMod BT">     </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+1" FACE="BernhardMod BT">Minnie Adkins (b. 1934) and her husband Garlan (1928-1997) are perhaps the best known Kentucky folk artists. Minnie grew up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, then moved to Ohio after marrying Garland in 1952. She worked in a factory there until the mid-seventies when they moved back to eastern Kentucky. It was then that Minnie began to carve. As she gained recognition, Garland joined her and would rough out the sculptures with power tools, leaving them for her to do the finish carving and painting. Her themes include animals native to her home statered foxes, bears, possums, roosters, as well as biblical themes. Minnie's art has extended well beyond wood sculpture to include paintings and, recently, collaboration on ceramic platters with her clay artist-cousin, Tess Little. <BR> <BR> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000099" FACE="BernhardMod BT">     </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000099" SIZE="+1" FACE="BernhardMod BT">Her work is in the Folk Art Collection of Morehead State University and is featured in the book O' Appalachia and she is the recipient of many national and regional folk art awards.<BR> <BR> </FONT></B></P> <P><CENTER><A HREF="index.html" TARGET="_parent"><B><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="BernhardMod BT">Back to Artists List</FONT></B></A></CENTER> </BODY>