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Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art
April 12, 2007
Susan Mitchell Crawley curator, High Museum of Art
Carol Crown associate professor, art history, University of Memphis
Charles Russell assoc director, Rutgers Institute
Charles Reagan Wilson director, Center for Southern Culture

The High Museum's Susan Crawley, associate curator of folk art, moderates a panel discussion inspired by Carol Crown and Charles Russell's recent publication Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art. Noted scholars discuss self-taught art in a cultural context.

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Amatuer art | Art & Architecture | Authors | Carol Crown | Charles Russell | Culture | folk art | self-taught art | Drawing | Painting | Art History
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