Rising Fawn Folk Art Presents
A. J. Mohammed

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A. J. Mohammed was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi. He enjoyed making art from childhood and started selling his work in the late 1960s. He was a construction worker and lived in Maryland and Tennessee. When he returned to his hometown in 1977, he was blinded by a shotgun blast. When he started making art, he was a painter. After being blinded he switched to carving. He carves human heads, snakes, animals, and walking sticks. He was included in the exhibition "Folk Art: From the Collection of Sally M. Griffiths" in 1994.

See our collection of work by A. J. Mohammed