Harold Rittenberry Jr. (born 1938) is an "outsider" artist living in Athens, Georgia.[1] He works with salvaged and scrap metal, making sculptures of "people animals... fish[2] He began sculpting in 1990[2] with steel after his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.[3]
In 2013, Rittenberry received the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Award, which "honors a living African American visual artist with a significant Georgia connection in an effort to raise his or her profile" from the Georgia Museum of Art.[9]
In 2021, Didi Dunphy was awarded a Georgia Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities for her work at the Lyndon House Arts Center, specifically "including the Harold Rittenberry Sculpture Garden".[10]
^Cooley, LuAnn and Joong Kang, Dae (2005). "Learning in the Twilight Zone: Transformational Learning of the Outsider Artist," Adult Education Research Conference. https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2005/
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