BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art X-WR-TIMEZONE:Central Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419203304 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230330 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419205353 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230331 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419207402 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230401 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419208427 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230402 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419210476 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230403 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419213549 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230404 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419215598 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230405 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419216623 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230406 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419218672 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230407 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419220721 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230408 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419222770 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230409 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419224819 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230410 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419226868 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230411 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419227893 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230412 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419229942 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230413 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419231991 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230414 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419233016 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230415 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419235065 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230416 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419236090 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230417 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419238139 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230418 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419239164 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230419 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419241213 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230420 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419243262 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230421 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419245311 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230422 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419247360 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230423 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419249409 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230424 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419250434 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230425 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419354883 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230426 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419356932 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230427 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419358981 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230428 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419361030 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230429 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419363079 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230430 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419365128 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230501 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419367177 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230502 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419369226 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230503 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419370251 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230504 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419373324 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230505 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419375373 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230506 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419377422 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230507 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419378447 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230508 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419381520 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230509 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419382545 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230510 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419385618 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230511 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419387667 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230512 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419389716 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230513 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419390741 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230514 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419392790 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230515 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419394839 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230516 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419396888 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230517 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419397913 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230518 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419399962 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230519 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419402011 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230520 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419403036 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230521 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419405085 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230522 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419407134 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230523 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419409183 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230524 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419410208 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230525 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419412257 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230526 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419414306 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230527 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419416355 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230528 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419417380 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230529 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419419429 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230530 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419421478 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230531 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419423527 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230601 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419425576 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230602 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419426601 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230603 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419428650 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230604 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419430699 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230605 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419432748 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230606 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419434797 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230607 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419436846 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230608 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419438895 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230609 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419440944 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230610 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181807Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419441969 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230611 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419444018 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230612 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419446067 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230613 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419448116 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230614 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419450165 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230615 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419452214 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230616 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419454263 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230617 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419456312 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230618 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419457337 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230619 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419459386 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230620 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419461435 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230621 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419463484 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230622 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419465533 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230623 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419467582 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230624 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419469631 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230625 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419471680 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230626 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419472705 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230627 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419474754 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230628 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419476803 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230629 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419478852 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230630 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419480901 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230701 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260908T181808Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42457419482950 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230702 DESCRIPTION:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial\n\non view March 30–July 2\, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art\n\nThe LSU Museum of Art is thrilled to announce the 2023 opening of I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial. Originally curated by Paul Barrett of Birmingham\, Alabama\, this exhibition provides a thorough ove rview of work by the pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial. I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial will be on view March 30–July 2\, 2023\, at the LSU Museu m of Art in Baton Rouge\, LA.\n\nDial was born in 1928 to a sharecropping family in rural Alabama. His life was interwoven with poverty and tumultuo us experience\, having lived in the deep South through the Great Depressio n\, Jim Crow segregation\, and the Civil Rights movement. After dropping o ut of school at age twelve and working a series of odd jobs\, Dial found s teady employment at the Pullman Standard Plant in Bessemer\, Alabama. Ther e he honed his skills at construction and metal work\, laying a foundation for his artistic endeavors. Dial began creating early-on\, finding bits o f odd scrap and debris\, putting it together to make interesting forms tha t would decorate his home and yard.\n\nWhen the plant shut down in 1981\, Dial devoted his time to creating artwork. He drew inspiration from his li fe experiences\, blending complex themes like Civil Rights\, race\, class\ , and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects— everything from bones\, wood\, toys\, metal\, and clothing. His condensed assemblages\, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of lif e\, move with a lightness\, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks an d crevices of the varied surface. His aesthetic was not limited to sculptu ral constructions\; Dial’s masterful drawings and paintings demonstrate his deft hand at composition and line\, through the exploration of reoccur ring motifs\, often women and tigers\, a symbol of himself\, in swirling m asses of shapes and color.\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector Wi lliam Arnett in late 1980s\, Dial gained national attention\, with his art work being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United Stat es. The artist died on January 25\, 2016\, in McCalla\, Alabama.\n\nI\, To o\, Am Thornton Dial\, includes over seventy pivotal drawings\, sculptures \, paintings\, and assemblages drawn from private and family collections. We would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition\, including Doug McCr aw\, Robert S. Taubman\, Brett and Lester Levy\, Jr.\, Jerry Siegel\, the Estate of William Sidney Arnett\, and the Dial family. Thank you to sponso rs Mary T. Joseph and Nancy & Cary Dougherty\, corporate sponsor Taylor Po rter Law Firm\, and in-kind sponsor Lamar Advertising for supporting this exhibition. Additional support for exhibitions at the LSU Museum of Art is provided by the generous donors to the LSU Museum of Art Annual Exhibitio n Fund.\n\nI\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial was originally curated by Paul Barre tt\, and the LSU Museum of Art exhibition is co-curated by Michelle Schult e\, Senior Curator and Director of Programs at the LSU Museum of Art. GEO:30.447837;-91.188858 LOCATION:Shaw Center for the Arts\, LSU Museum of Art\, 5th floor SUMMARY:I\, Too\, Am Thornton Dial exhibition at the LSU Museum of Art URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.lsu.edu/event/i_too_am_thornton_dial_exhibit ion_at_the_lsu_museum_of_art CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR