Theresa Gloster is a selftaught memory artist whose paintings chronicle her childhood years in the small African American community of Bushtown, NC. Born in a WV mining camp, Ms. Gloster grew up in the high foothills of NC, where she lived with her grandparents in a household that included 12 kids. She says everything is subject to be painted. “Wood, clothes, furniture, dishes, anything that is old, I use to paint on.” The paintings gathered here chronicle a time of lived community, a time when families worked together to overcome the hardships of segregation & marginalization, a time that Ms. Gloster described as one of collective transcending. The images are neither overly romantic nor overtly critical; instead they’re simply – in Ms. Gloster’s words – “true.”