Cat Radio Cafe

Mon, Apr 19, 2021 00:00 AM

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Hosts: Janet Coleman and David Dozer

Topics:

Self - taught or "outsider" artists
Traylor's emrgence as an artist in his eighties -
Traylor's life on the plantation, through Restoration, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, etc. -

Synopsis:

"BILL TRAYLOR: CHASING GHOSTS": DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE GREAT SELF-TAUGHT AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTIST

On this show we preview “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts,” a documentary film about the great self-taught artist. Bill Traylor was born into slavery on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama in 1853, spent six decades after the Civil War working the land, moved to the segregated section of Montgomery at 70, and did not start painting until his late 80’s, devising his own visual language to produce over 1000 works of colorful, jazzy, folkloric and mystical images drawn from nature and memories of his long life.

We’ll be joined by the producer of the film, Samuel Pollard and the director and co-producer Jeffrey Wolf, who have assembled archival photographs, music, dramatic excerpts, interviews with family members, artists and art historians, and a plethora of Bill Traylor’s brilliant and haunting renditions of the African-American experience as he lived it.

Guests:

Samuel Pollarf (producer) -
Jeffrey Wolf (director) -

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This Little Light of Mine: Sister Rosetta Tharp -
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