James Arthur Snipes is a lifelong resident of rural Alabama. He has held odd jobs throughout his life as a logger, farmhand, and dishwasher. Always skilled at fixing things, he expanded his talents more than a decade ago to include not just building wagons and wheelbarrows out of scrap lumber, but to more purely artistic pursuits, as he began to experiment with constructing artworks out of odds and ends. His assemblages are made from roots, limbs, vines, scrap lumber, road signs, tobacco cans, horse collars -- whatever he finds that triggers his imagination. His creations are rough, whimsical, chunky, and colorful, and have met with great interest by folk art collectors. This page was last updated on April 9, 2008.
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