Sheila Hicks on Her Life and Art
Grant Johnson, Artforum
June 2019
I always say I grew up in a car. In the Midwest, during the Depression, we were migratory. My father was moving about for work. So my brother and I learned how to play games and entertain ourselves in the back seat. We know probably most of the middle part of the United States, from Nebraska to Iowa to Missouri to Texas to Kansas. We lived in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, and Louisiana. I remember seeing Louis Armstrong at Mardi Gras in New Orleans when I was a little kid. So I had a fantastic upbringing that was a migratory existence, modest and full of adventure until the war broke out. […]