Judith McWillie Papers, 1984-2011

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Judith McWillie Papers, 1984-2011

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Judith McWillie is an artist, author of numerous essays on art and culture, and professor emeritus of drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, Ga. Much of her work centers on African American artists. Her book (2005), co-written with Grey Gundaker, won the Southern Anthropological Society's James Mooney Award. No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work The collection consists of videtapes and DVDs recorded by Judith McWillie of persons and events relating to southern vernacular art and her field work in Cuba. Subjects include individual sourthern artists, especially those in Memphis, Tenn.; yard workers; and clubs and street life. There is also footage of El Vez, the Mexican Elvis, and Clarence Giddens, the Black Elvis, performing at the Georgia Theater in Athens, Ga. Notable folk artists documented in the collection include Howard Finster, Lonnie Holley, Joni Mabe, and J.B. Murray.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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McWillie, Judith

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Judith McWillie is an artist, author, and professor. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Memphis State University and her Masters of Fine Arts degree from the Ohio State University. She is professor emeritus of drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, Ga. Much of her work centers on African American artists. As an artist, her paintings and photographs have been in solo and group exhibitions at a variety of locations throughout the United States and Europe, inc...