Sedrick Huckaby
Sedrick Huckaby is a Big Momma’s boy. The Fort Worth contemporary artist is devoted to the spirit of his late grandmother, Hallie Beatrice Carpenter, or “Big Momma,” and finds inspiration in her century-old home. Located in Fort Worth’s Polytechnic Heights neighborhood, or Poly to locals, the house’s raw shiplap walls are adorned with Huckaby’s paintings of family and neighbors. Huckaby creates works here, but next year the space will take on new life when Huckaby opens it as a project space for artists, tentatively called Big Momma’s House.
After attending college on the East Coast, Huckaby came back to his native Texas to make art about his people, alongside his wife, Letitia Huckaby, a photo-based artist. A University of Texas at Arlington art professor and 43-year-old father of
