The Scene: MaPó Kinnord
The Scene: MaPó Kinnord
![Kinnord at work in her studio. Photo by Cedric Angeles.](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/image-gallery/2_B4A5320_0.jpg?itok=uiHJmADH)
Kinnord at work in her studio. Photo by Cedric Angeles.
![Kinnord at work in her studio. Photo by Cedric Angeles.](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/image-gallery/4_B4A4942.jpg?itok=U7bk1eIo)
Kinnord at work in her studio. Photo by Cedric Angeles.
![Here, Kinnord holds chunks of clay that she dug from the banks of the Mississippi River. Photo by Cedric Angeles.](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/image-gallery/5_B4A5035.jpg?itok=kQGTMQMN)
Here, Kinnord holds chunks of clay that she dug from the banks of the Mississippi River. Photo by Cedric Angeles.
![Kinnord in her studio. Photo by Cedric Angeles.](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/image-gallery/6_B4A5021.jpg?itok=NfNQoD3-)
Kinnord in her studio. Photo by Cedric Angeles.
![Kinnord in her sculpture garden. Photo by Cedric Angeles.](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/image-gallery/7_B4A5233.jpg?itok=0onHNChN)
Kinnord in her sculpture garden. Photo by Cedric Angeles.
![Kinnord in her sculpture garden. Photo by Cedric Angeles.](/sites/default/files/styles/extra_large/public/image-gallery/8_B4A5205.jpg?itok=Zu6rBYma)
Kinnord in her sculpture garden. Photo by Cedric Angeles.
ARTISTS KINNORD ADMIRES: Designer Norma Hedrick, who helped establish the Fashion & Textiles department at the Material Institute; master blacksmith Darryl Reeves, whose highly respected work is “really, really New Orleans”; wood sculptor Larry Nevil, “one of our elders”; visual artist and activist Brandan “BMike” Odums of Studio Be; sculptor Jennifer Odem; Sheleen Jones, an incredible artist “in terms of commemorative bronzes”; visual artist Louise Mouton Johnson; wood and mixed-media sculptor John Barnes; visual artist Rontherin Ratliff; and “legendary artist and educator” John T. Scott, who died in 2007.