Terry Adkins of Sand Coulee, Montana was in 67th place when he scratched on March 10 at 10:15 a.m. in Takotna.

The red lantern in 75th place was Ben Valks, after Terry Adkins and Jim Warren scratched.

Likewise, the sincere, subtly crafted wood pieces of Terry Adkins suggest both containers and masks.

"Distant Mirrors," sculptures by Terry Adkins.

Terry Adkins, for example, came to the art via music: "I acquired the pieces in the exhibition because I play them."

Terry Adkins, Kenkeleba House's artist in residence who helped select the show, has a feeling for the complex possibilities of simple shapes.

Terry Adkins (born 1953 in Washington, D.C.) is an American artist.

There are good works by painters and sculptors of other tendencies, like Terry Adkins and James Andrew Brown, but little sense of how they relate to their time.

Terry Adkins, in his geometric wood sculptures, one of them like "his and hers" mask-mirrors, suggests both the modernist and African sculptural traditions without immediately staking claim to either.

"The teams that ran hard out of Portage are paying the price now," said Terry Adkins, a veteran of 21 Iditarods, and one of seven veterinarians checking dogs throughout the race.