Ginger Young - Southern Self-Taught Artists

Despite their lack of formal training, a handful of African-American self-taught artists from the Southeastern US have emerged as creative powerhouses in the past twenty years, their genius recognized and celebrated by the mainstream art world. Some of their most eloquent renderings depict their everyday lives. In this talk, we will discuss these visual narratives and the ways in which they bear witness to rural farm life, race, work, family, and childhood. We will examine artworks by such artists as Jimmy Lee Sudduth, James Arthur Snipes, Bernice Sims, Mose Tolliver, Eddie Hayes, and MC Jones. An avid art collector for thirty years, Ginger Young has run a business in Southern self-taught art since 1990 and represents more than 60 artists in her Chapel Hill home gallery.

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