THIS CITY HAS FOLK ART FEVER
If you haven’t already checked out the folk art exhibit at the Birmingham Museum of Art, you can get your dose at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Saturday, July 21. Mississippi native Melinda Dalton Hollingsworth will share her contemporary frescoes with all you folk art fanatics through August 31 in the gardens’ main gallery. Hollingsworth got her start using found objects from behind a local grocery store and along the creek where she lived, and now uses paint and plaster to create works of animals, flowers and people. Her bright colors and simple style give her frescoes and cryptograms an edge reminiscent of modern pop art — she may be self-taught, but her work is definitely not amateur or mundane. Check it out for yourself. The gardens are located at 2612 Lane Park Rd. Admission is free. Call 414-3931 for more information.
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