No. 23: JAYNE MOORE WALDROP - SHE REMEMBERED IT ALL: THE ART OF MEMORY PAINTER HELEN LAFRANCE
release date: February 20, 2024
release date: February 20, 2024
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Jayne Moore Waldrop
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Episode #23 of the Art Throb Podcast features a conversation with writer Jayne Moore Waldrop about her most recent illustrated children's book - She Remembered It All: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance.
Jayne is the author of Drowned Town, named a 2022 Great Group Reads selection by the Women's National Book Association and INDIES Book of the Year Award silver winner in fiction; She Remember It all: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance; A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson; Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems, and Retracing My Steps, a finalist in the New Women's Voices Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Appalachian Review, Still: The Journal New Limstone Review, Women Speak Anthology, and other journals and anthologies. A shorter version of this interview can be heard on NPR/WEKU here |
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Helen LaFrance (November 2, 1919 - November 20, 2020) was a self-taught Black American artist born in Graves County, Kentucky, the second of four daughters to James Franklin Orr and Lillie May LIgon Orr. Helen has often been described as both an outsider artist due to her lack of formal training and existence outside the cultural mainstream, and as a memory painter, best know for her captures of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South. Sharing traits in common with memory painters Horace Pippin (1888-1946) and Grandma Moses (1860-1961), LaFrance has been referred to as "the Black Grandma Moses." She also painted powerful and intensely spiritual visionary interpretations of the Bible, in a style that differed radically from her memory paintings.
Church Picnic
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Helen LaFrance
Circus Parade
Children Sleeping
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