Artist Bonita Skaggs Parsons | Kentucky Life | KET

Artist Bonita Skaggs-Parsons has long used whatever was at hand to create her pieces. She likes to recycle and "upcycle" old newspapers and scraps of paper to create soft sculptures. A self-taught artist, she works in a variety of media, including wood carving and painting.

Her work has been exhibited at Appalshop in Whitesburg and at the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead State University.

She loves her Elliott County home. But with an artist's eye, she sees both the good and bad elements in the community. Her art makes strong statements about the impact the drug problem has had on her community. She and her daughter, Misty Skaggs, worked together on "Prescription Panes," an exhibit of poems by Misty and art by Bonita depicting the prescription drug epidemic in Eastern Kentucky.

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