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Bernice Sims (American, born 1926), L&N Train Station, Brewton, Alabama, ca.2002, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University gift of Micki Beth Stiller, 2009.17.02

EXHIBITION GIVES INSIGHT INTO FOLK ART

Released: February 7, 2011

The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will host Outsiders on the Inside: Contemporary Folk Art in the Permanent Collection, a new exhibition on view Feb. 5–April 30 in the Chi Omega-Hargis Gallery. Several Alabama natives including Bernice Sims, Jimmy Lee Sudduth and Mose Tolliver are represented in the exhibition. Outsiders on the Inside delves into the evocative world of contemporary folk art. Art of this nature has gained wide attention by museums and collectors in recent years, but scholars and critics have yet to agree on a term that accurately describes its diversity. ...