High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lonnie Bradley Holley, sometimes known as The Sand Man, is an African American artist and art educator. He was born the 7th of 27 children, and spent part of his childhood at the Industrial School for Negro Children in Mount Meigs, Alabama before running away to Louisiana where he started working as a short-order cook. Never completing the seventh grade in school, he says he educated himself by reading "National Geographic" magazines. Holley began his artistic life in 1979 by carving tombstones for his sister's two children who died in a house fire. He used blocks of a soft sandstone-like by-product of metal casting which was discarded in piles by a foundry near his sister's house. He believes that divine intervention led him to the material and inspired his artwork. Inspired to create, Holley made other carvings and assembled them in his yard along with various found objects. In 1981 he brought a few examples of his sandstone carvings to Birmingham Museum of Art director Richard Murray.

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