Kent Mullinax is the Booth Art Academy Manager at the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA. He has a job he loves at the best museum in the country in one of the best small towns in the country! God has blessed him with a wonderful family and a place to go every morning that he has never considered ‘work’. If he’s not with his family or at the Booth, he is either watching The Office or painting and listening to music (Nirvana, The Foo Fighters, Metallica).

“It all started with the cartoons I grew up watching on Saturday mornings (mostly Scooby Doo and my man Fat Albert!). Around that same time, I began to notice the stained-glass windows in the churches around Cartersville. With both the cartoons and the glass, the big shapes, bold colors, and heavy black outlines always grabbed my attention. I think it was the simplicity…few details, no distractions, and just enough information to get the point across. Add to that those gloriously colorful and mysterious skies in “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”, and several family members who exposed me to folk art when I was a kid and you have what I think are the biggest influences on my painting “style”. I learned from Potter WJ Gordy (a friend of my grandfather’s) that you could actually have a career doing something you loved. What a revelation that was! And I discovered artists William H. Johnson and Gabriele Munter (both expressionist painters) when I was in my 20’s. I get lost in their work even today. And that’s the point of it all.”  – Kent Mullinax