User talk:Hannahterry15/sandbox

Featured Artists:

Minnie Adkins Linvel Barker Ronald & Jessie Cooper Marvin Finn Charley Kinney Noah Kinney Jo Neace Krause Helen LaFrance Tim Lewis Carl McKenzie Robert Morgan Mark Anthony Mulligan Earnest Patton Nan Phelps Hugo Sperger Donny Tolson Edgar Tolson LaVon Van Williams https://www.moreheadstate.edu/kfac/

Featured Black Artists at the Kentucky Folk Art Center:

Helen LaFrance https://www.moreheadstate.edu/Caudill-College-of-Arts,-Humanities-and-Social-Sci/Kentucky-Folk-Art-Center/Featured-Artists

Marvin Finn https://www.moreheadstate.edu/Caudill-College-of-Arts,-Humanities-and-Social-Sci/Kentucky-Folk-Art-Center/Featured-Artists

Mark Anthony Mulligan https://www.moreheadstate.edu/Caudill-College-of-Arts,-Humanities-and-Social-Sci/Kentucky-Folk-Art-Center/Featured-Artists

LaVon Van Williams https://www.moreheadstate.edu/Caudill-College-of-Arts,-Humanities-and-Social-Sci/Kentucky-Folk-Art-Center/Featured-Artists Hannahterry15 (talk) 19:19, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Mark Anthony Mulligan
Mark Anthony Mulligan Mark Anthony Mulligan (born May 1963) is a self-taught artist from Louisville Kentucky.

Early Life: Mulligan was born in Louisville Kentucky, one of seven children. He suffers from mental illness which he says is a result of him falling out of a crib as a child and hitting his head. Mulligan says that while in school he was occasionally praised for his work, but he struggled to follow rules so he ran away from home and left school before the tenth grade. Since then, Mulligan has been living on the streets and in homeless shelters, he has occasionally been in mental hospitals.

Artwork: Mulligan grew up in Rubbertown which is known for having chemical factories, treatment plants, and is incredibly industrial. This has shaped Mulligan's artwork, as he depicts signs, logos, and urban scenes that Mulligan says are inspired by what he observes when riding on the TARC buses (public transportation in Louisville). Mulligan primarily uses markers on poster board, but he has also used paints, markers, and crayons to depict his cityscapes. Mulligan feels very connected to the logos he draws, one that he often illustrates is the “King Fish” logo, a favorite restaurant from his childhood. In an interview with Steve Mosley Mulligan said that he has written to multiple corporations, attempting to persuade them to not change their logos. Mulligan believes that logos and names hold a special meaning which is why he chooses to depict them. Mulligan’s work has been on display at the University of Cincinnati, The Kentucky Folk Art Museum, The New Orleans Museum of Art, Chicago Art Institute, The Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts in Cincinnati, the Mennello Museum of American Folk Art in Orlando, as well as in the Swanson Gallery in Louisville Kentucky, who represented Mulligan for many years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hannahterry15 (talk • contribs) 19:11, 22 November 2020 (UTC)