Mark Hoffmann is an award winning picturebook author/illustrator and painter, who's fine art work primarily focuses on naïve or even low-brow subjects. He is influenced by southern folkart and americana. He was raised in Minnesota and earned his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and MFA from Umass-Dartmouth. When Mark is not creating or teaching, he spends his free time looking for old junk and wood boxes at antique fairs.

This piece is part of Mark's collection, Hip-Hop Marsh, for ETA34.