Although the artist known as “Mingering Mike” achieved musical stardom only in his handmade body of cardboard records and album covers, his imaginary career powerfully, and often humorously, evokes black American life in the 1960s and 1970s.
"Boogie Down" at the White House, Big D & Mingering
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Mingering Mike, born Washington, DC 1950
- Date
- 1975
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan and museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Copyright
- © Mingering Mike
- Medium
- mixed media on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (31.8 x 31.8 cm)
- Type
- Graphic Arts
