Description
Essay with color photo covers of the sculptor Vernon Burwell and his work, published on the occasion of the Annie Hooper Exhibition and Visionary Folk Art Symposium organized by Roger Manley at North Carolina State University, 23 April 1988.
This item, printed in an edition of 1000 copies, is part biography, part commentary, part q & a with the man who said, “Rocky Mount don’t know much of what I’m about.”
JW: So why, Mr. Burwell, did you suddenly in 1976 decide to start making human figures out of cement?
VB: Well, I just decided I would try to make something.
Two dogs by Vernon Burwell
