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Kathryn Tucker Windham
My Land, My People

February 24 - May 25
Works on Paper Gallery
This exhibition of Windham's photographs, presented along with her own accompanying texts, relates Windham's own unique pictorial observations of the South and is a celebration of this treasured Alabamian in her 90th year.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Southern Photographs from a Southern Storyteller - Public Lecture by Kathryn Tucker Windham.

Sunday, March 9, 2:30 p.m.
Master storyteller, author, playwright, and photographer Windham has received national acclaim for her storytelling segments on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Using slides and her uncanny narrative ability, Windham will tell the stories behind the photographs in the Museum's exhibition.

Southern Drawl: The Making of Kathryn: Story of a Teller by Norton Dill, filmmaker.

Tuesday, March 11, 12 noon, Birmingham Museum of Art Members Room.
Using clips from his film, Dill will discuss his experience working with Kathryn Tucker Windham to create a documentary about her life.

A New Deal for the New South: Art in the Age of Jim Crow and the Great Depression by Graham C. Boettcher, PhD, Luce Curatorial Fellow of American Art.

Sunday, March 30, 2 p.m.
Dr. Boettcher will present a lecture on artists working in the Deep South from the onslaught of the Great Depression through the beginning of the New Deal. He will examine issues of race, poverty, and industry in art of the South during this period.

The Writing on the Wall: Images from To Kill A Mockingbird

February 24 - May 11
Birmingham Museum of Art Education Gallery

Public Reception
3 p.m., March 30, following the lecture A New Deal for the New South.
Jefferson County middle and high school students share their responses to To Kill a Mockingbird through a variety of artistic styles and media.

Film Festival: 1930s America

Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m., Birmingham Museum of Art Steiner Auditorium
Join us as we explore this fascinating and tumultuous time in American history through film and a moderated discussion that will explore the art, politics, and social climate of the 1930s.