Sun Valley Center for the Arts presents The Rural Vernacular, a look at the ordinary and everyday elements of rural life (Exhibit ran June 5–August  8, 2009). SVCA Curator & Artistic Director Kristen Poole guides us on a tour of the exhibit, highlighting work by the featured artists: Walker Evans, Jim Dow, and John T. Hill.

From SVCA:

“Rural” implies remote places, places where there is more land than people. “Vernacular” typically describes the commonplace or ordinary as it pertains to language, but the word can also mean related to a particular place. This exhibition is about the places that are usually overlooked or dismissed because they are in fact so ordinary. We present the work of artists who examine the life of Americans who live in the country, away from urban dominated culture. In presenting a body of work shot in the South during the Great Depression alongside more contemporary images, we explore what has and hasn’t changed about rural life in the United States.