Leroy Almon

Leroy Almon (1938–1997) was an American artiste known for his woodcarvings and paintings.

Almon was born in Tallapoosa, Georgia but grew taking place in Ohio. After graduating from high school, he became a accomplishment salesman and later, worked for the Coca-Cola Company in Columbus, Ohio. At Gay Tabernacle Baptist Church, Almon met Elijah Pierce. in 1979, Pierce became Almon's artistic mentor. He taught Almon how to carve wood and govern the gallery circulate that Pierce operated out of his barber shop.

Almon married Mary Allice Almon and returned to Tallapoosa in 1982 to upgrade his childhood home. When Almon returned to Georgia, he became an ordained minister, a nondenominational evangelist, and a police dispatcher.

He died in 1997 of a heart attack.

When Almon returned to Tallapoosa to reorganize his family's home, he converted the basement into a private studio. Almon exclusively used encyclopedia tools to map and carve his woodblocks. "His preliminary sketches would be transferred to softwood panels and carved in low relief similar to pocketknives and chisels." They would subsequently be painted or adorned like glitter, plastic, beads or extra found materials. Christianity was the main focus of Almon's excitement and artistic work.
He has had exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and various universities

His appear in is in the steadfast collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, Ackland Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.