# Ken Little

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**Ken Dawson Little** is a modernist San Antonio-based sculptor who was born in Canyon, Texas in 1947. After graduating from [Texas Tech University](/source/Texas_Tech_University) in 1970 with a BFA in painting, he received an MFA from the [University of Utah](/source/University_of_Utah) in 1972. There, his interest in painting waned in favor of ceramics. In 1988, he settled in San Antonio, Texas, and his interests shifted to bronze animal masks. Little later shifted to steel sculpture, animal forms constructed from discarded shoes and human forms [decoupaged](/source/Decoupage) with American paper money. *Fury*, in the collection of the [Honolulu Museum of Art](/source/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art) is an example of this stage in the artist's work. He has been a professor of art at the [University of Texas at San Antonio](/source/University_of_Texas_at_San_Antonio) since 1988.[1]

Since 1993, he has maintained a studio in a warehouse building that he owns in downtown San Antonio, Texas. He is an advocate for contemporary art in south Texas, renting studio space to 8 other artists. From 1994 to 1999, he directed Rose Amarillo, a 1,500-square foot (140-square metre) [alternative exhibition space](/source/Alternative_exhibition_space) showing the work of local and national artists.[2]

The [Blanton Museum of Art](/source/Blanton_Museum_of_Art) (Austin, Texas), the [Crocker Art Museum](/source/Crocker_Art_Museum) (Sacramento, California), the [Hawaii State Art Museum](/source/Hawaii_State_Art_Museum) (Honolulu), the [Honolulu Museum of Art](/source/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art), the [John Michael Kohler Arts Center](/source/John_Michael_Kohler_Arts_Center) (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), the [McNay Art Museum](/source/McNay_Art_Museum) (San Antonio, Texas), the [Missoula Art Museum](/source/Missoula_Art_Museum) (Missoula, Montana), the [Museum of Arts and Design](/source/Museum_of_Arts_and_Design) (New York), the [Richard Nelson Gallery](/source/Richard_Nelson_Gallery) (University of California at Davis), the [San Antonio Museum of Art](/source/San_Antonio_Museum_of_Art), the [Roswell Museum and Art Center](/source/Roswell_Museum_and_Art_Center) (Roswell, New Mexico), the [Utah Museum of Fine Arts](/source/Utah_Museum_of_Fine_Arts) (Salt Lake City), and the [Yellowstone Art Museum](/source/Yellowstone_Art_Museum) (Billings, Montana) are among the public collections holding works by Ken Little.[3]

## Footnotes

1. *San Antonio Express-News*, "Ken Little crosses artistic boundaries", *San Antonio Express-News*, July 23, 2013

1. ["Finesilver Gallery"](https://web.archive.org/web/20190102094539/http://www.finesilver.com/mobile/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=626). Archived from [the original](http://www.finesilver.com/mobile/Artist-Info.cfm?ArtistsID=626) on 2019-01-02. Retrieved 2014-05-16.

1. [The artist's website](http://kenlittle.com/resume/)

## References

- Caldwell, Susan Havens, *Ken Dawson Little: A Catalog of Works*, San Francisco, California, Quay Gallery, 1983.
- Hickey, Dave, *Ken Dawson Little: A Bestiary of Damaged Goods*, 1986.
- Whitney, Kathleen, "The Buck Stops Here: A Conversation with Ken Little", Sculpture Magazine, Dec. 2004, Vol. 23, No. 10) 51
- *Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists* featuring Ken Little. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson ([Trinity University Press](/source/Trinity_University_(Texas)#Trinity_University_Press), 2008).

## External links

- [ArtCyclopedia](http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/little_ken.html)
- [Ken Little website](http://www.kenlittle.com/)

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