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Glenn Stark was a grassroots artist who did fine wood carving and built larger sculptures using a metal framework and concrete. His work was displayed at his home in Kingman, Kansas until his death in 2014. The art has since been moved to other locations including this park in downtown Kingman where about 20 of his concrete sculptures have been moved.

Bennington Museum holds the largest public collection in the world of paintings by Grandma Moses, the great 20th-century folk artist who painted scenes of rural life embodying a sense of an idyllic bygone America.

KMAC relays the marriage of art and craft in the context of contemporary art. The Museum's permanent collection contains works created by notable twentieth century American folk artists as well as local contemporary artists. Some of the artists in KMAC’s collection hail from Eastern Kentucky and the surrounding region, and as a result they function as storytellers of Appalachian culture. Similarly, the contemporary works within the collection are often biographical and topical.

Paradise Garden is open to visitors, Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00 a,m,-5:00 p.m.

The entire third floor of the Museum is reserved for Southern Contemporary Folk Art. As part of this dedication to folk art, the Donelly and Lail Galleries house works in an open storage format. Works in these galleries change regularly.

Theora Hamblett, a lifelong resident of Lafayette County, didn’t begin her career as an artist until the latter part of her life.

Born in 1895 in Paris, Mississippi, Hamblett grew up on a chicken farm, which became the subject of many of her paintings. During the early decades of the twentieth century, she taught school, but by the 1930s, she left to care for her ill mother.

After the passing of her mother, Hamblett moved to Oxford, where she bought a 12-room house on Van Buren Avenue. She rented rooms to University of Mississippi students and sewed to make money.