May 17 - July 12, 2002

Judith McWillie has taught at the University of Georgia since 1974, and has been Chair of Drawing and Painting at the university's Lamar Dodd School of Art since 1998. She taught previously at Memphis State University (1971-1974) and the Ohio State University (1969-1971). Her work, both as an artist and as a curator, is widely exhibited on a national and international scale and he artwork is in numerous permament collections across the United States. As a recognized authority on Afro Atlantic Tradition in outsider and folk art, she has published widely and has photographed and eidted a series of documentary video productions.

Of her own paintings, she says: "I have always believed that painting is about the soul. My main influences have been Catholicism, Afro Atlantic Tradition, and the blues and gospel music of the South. I have tried to work as much from aspiration as from memory, hoping the results of my labor will contribute to a plexus of empathy within the worldliness that appears to be always and sometimes too much with us."

See more work by Judith McWillie at http://art.uga.edu/people.php?id=36&dt=p.