John Perkins Jr. was just a kid when he fell in love with carpentry, tagging along as his father built homes for him and his sisters and renovated houses and storefronts across their east-side Detroit ...

“The art that speaks to me most,” says John Perkins, "is the art that seems most in tune with the fact that humans just have an art-making instinct. Whatever else we are doing, we will make art." ...