Art is not necessarily for immediate communication, but the experience of learning experience itself.” John Henry was born in Lexington, Ky., and received his first degree from the University of ...

Isaac Duncan III met John Henry while an art student at the university of Kentucky. Henry would often enlist the "strong backs" of UK students for installation work, and Duncan was one them.

After Carolyn Krause heard Charlotte Blake Alston at the recent Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival tell the story of John Henry, the African American folk hero and legendary railroad worker, she ...