The Power of Art: Life Lessons with Lonnie Holley
In 1979, Lonnie Holley made his first sculpture. Like most of his art, it was something born out of an ugly situation.
Holley’s niece and nephew died in a house fire in their hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Their mother, Holley’s sister, fell into an even deeper depression when she realized she did not have enough money to buy her children tombstones.
“You can imagine me having to absorb all my family’s tears and my tears,” Holley told The Fader in 2013, “I was just wondering, what could I do?”...