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Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art
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Susan Mitchell Crawley curator, High Museum of Art
Carol Crown associate professor, art history, University of Memphis [homepage]
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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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