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Leroy Almon

Leroy Almon (1938 - 1997) was active/lived in Georgia, Ohio.  Leroy Almon is known for Woodcarver-folk art, religious, collaborative art.

Leroy Almon, Sr. was a non denominational evangelical preacher known for his interpretations of spiritual and secular themes carved in low relief with knife and chisel.

Almon was born in Tallopoosa, Georgia, but grew up in Columbus, Ohio and worked as a shoe salesman and for the Coca Cola Co. in Columbus. Following a job loss in 1979, Almon apprenticed and eventually collaborated with Elijah Pierce, the well known African American lay minister and woodcarver.

In 1982, Almon returned to Tallapoosa, and converted his boyhood home into a workshop and gallery and became an ordained minister.Lynda Hartigan,"Contemporary Folk: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum" and the Souls Grown Deep Foundation

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