TRANSITION: Thornton Dial (1928 - 2016)

“Black folks know what they got to do to live. They want to have their own strategy for working, to use their own energy and spirit the way it come to them to do it, not do something because someone else make you do it. That's freedom. My art is the evidence of my freedom.”    ~Thornton Dial

Thornton Dial, Outsider Whose Work Told of Black Life, Dies at 87

Thornton Dial, Who Turned Scrap Metal, Animal Bones and Other Found Objects Into Museum Art, Dies at 87

Thornton Dial, Pioneering Artist Who Channeled Everyday Objects Into Intricate Constructions, Dies at 87

How A Sharecropper’s Son With A Third-Grade Education Changed the Definition of the Word ‘Artist’