Victoria Cummings-Bobo
May 31, 2024
Growing up in Itawamba County, Mississippi, Victoria Cummings-Bobo learned from her Granny the value of making beautiful objects out of repurposed materials. Cummings-Bobo recalls that
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Sharde Thomas
April 30, 2022
Growing up next door to her grandfather–the late master fife player Otha Turner–Sharde Thomas was captivated by his music and how he could “cast a
Paul Gore
April 30, 2022
Sign painter and muralist Paul Gore received his first set of paintbrushes from his father when he was 14 years old. His father was an
Vishwanath Shenoy
April 27, 2022
Vishwanath N. Shenoy is a sitar player living in Clinton, Mississippi. He was born in India, and in 1988 he moved to Ohio to study
Alan Kolodny
April 27, 2022
Alan Kolodny learned to crochet at a young age from his grandmother. As an Orthodox Jew, she would make his kippah (head covering) and tried
Janice Mitchell
April 15, 2022
Quilter Janice Mitchell was born in Texas, and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In junior high and high school, she took home economic courses