Juanita Rogers
Born	(1934-05-12)May 12, 1934 Tintop, Alabama
Died	January 26, 1985(1985-01-26) (aged 50) Montgomery, Alabama
Nationality	American
Movement	Folk art

Juanita Rogers (May 12, 1934, in Tintop, Alabama - January 26, 1985) was a self-taught American folk artist. ^[1] She was born in Tintop, Alabama to Thomas and Sally Rogers, although she claimed she was adopted after arriving in North Montgomery by carnival train at the age of five. ^[2] Her mother was part Creek Indian, and died when Juanita was about twenty. ^[2] Juanita attended a Catholic mission school. ^[2] She was married to Sol Huffman, who died in 1980. ^[2]

Rogers claimed her neighbor, famed Montgomery blues singer Clarence Carter, taught her to "make mud" at the age of five. ^[2] She is known for her clay sculptures of human, animal, and vessel forms, and uses mud, bones, and shells in her art. She made watercolor paintings. ^[3] She is also known for pencil and tempera drawings, whose style has been compared to Hogarth by the New York Times. ^{[2] [4] [5]} Her works draw from Native American and traditional African American cultures. ^[2]

Some of her work was based on television images, such as the Coneheads characters of Saturday Night Live. ^{[5] [6]} By one estimate she created 300 works. ^[1]

Her works have been displayed at London's Outsider Archives, the Art Brut Museum, in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the University of Mississippi, and at the Smithsonian Art Museum Renwick Gallery. ^{[4] [7] [3]}

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