NADA House 2021

“People throws this stuff out. I get in my van and go collect it, and I bring it back to the Hobby Shop”. Willie Jinks was a self-taught Black artist from Atlanta, GA, whose hobby shop was a small backyard shed that eventually expanded to encompass his entire home and yard. During a prolific life, Willie Jinks (1921-2012) created kinetic whirligigs, complex assemblages and paintings depicting memories of growing up in rural Georgia, animals, fantastical creatures and recreations of funny stories he’d heard from friends using only found materials and enamel paint from a local hardware store.