Mobile artist Lydia Harsany Host, a longtime Bishop State instructor and repeat Reader’s Choice Award finalist, won Best Portrait Artist in the 2026 Reader’s Choice Awards after years building Mobile’s arts community.
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An Artist Who Calls Himself ‘Grantham Unknown’ Left New Orleans Calling It ‘Spiritually Desolate.’ Mobile Gave Him His Light Back.
Self-taught artist Grantham Unknown left New Orleans calling its arts scene ‘spiritually desolate’ and found new footing in Mobile, where he now co-manages the Lupercalia Gallery on Dauphin Street.