Tina Cox had her eyes fixed on one goal when she left her 25-year corporate career at a big-four accounting firm to become executive director of Paradise Garden Foundation in 2018: to reopen Howard Finster’s World’s Folk Art Church.
The church, which in its glory days had been the famous folk artist’s studio, gallery and impromptu pulpit, had been shut down for a quarter century, boarded up and closed off to the public in a dilapidated state unsafe for visitors.
