“I got all the help in the world from my parents and people in the neighborhood who found out that I was good at art. “Out of all the kids in the city, they picked one of my pieces to be exhibited at the museum,” said Hawkins, who also attended Saturday art classes at CCAD and Ohio State. Hawkins remembers a drawing that ran in the Columbus Citizen-Journal newspaper, and another hand-picked by the Columbus Museum of Art in the ’60s.
But the affirmation of his artistic talents came from the community, as well. “I'd lay down there on the floor and start drawing, and my brothers, they would just quit drawing and sit there and start watching me.”Įventually, Hawkins’ mom had to come up with other competitions because he always won the drawing contests. So she would give us crayons and sit us on the floor and say, ‘You guys draw me a picture, and whoever has the best picture gets extra dessert,’” Hawkins said. “She was raising three hardheaded boys, and my father would be at work all day. Growing up in Columbus’ Milo-Grogan neighborhood in the 1960s, Gregory Hawkins knew he was a gifted artist from a young age, mainly because his mother told him so.
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