The Alabama Experience; Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: The Art of Frank Fleming

University of Alabama Center for Public Television and Radio · April 6, 2000

Frank Fleming resides in Birmingham, Alabama and has called that state his home his entire life. Growing up poor, Fleming didn't have many chances to participate in art. A speach inpediment as a child sent him to the University of Northern Alabama where he took an art class and found that he had an undiscovered talent. Fleming took up sulptures moving from red clay to porcelain to bronze. His work has been admired by people from all over in art galleries across the country. While Fleming is well known as an artist, he still finds pleasure in the simplier things in life including nature and animals, whiche greatly incluence his work. A series that focuses on bringing to life the inspiring stores and empowering characters that have helped form Alabama's past and are working to shape its future.