Distinguished Artist Award: Chester Higgins Bearing Witness
In Coffee County, Alabama, cradled in the expanses of grass and gravel that span the distance between county roads are unremarkable but familiar icons: loblolly pines, propane tanks, kudzu, shotgun houses, the makings of a town. New Brockton is a small town by any definition. Even today, its population is under 1,500. But during the mid-twentieth century in this haphazard checkerboard of asphalt, farland, storefronts and small homes, a talent was gestating. an anointing was coming...
