Susan Mitchell Crawley

Susan Mitchell Crawley is an independent curator, scholar, and writer who specializes in the work of artists with little or no formal arts education. From 2003 to 2013 she served as Curator of Folk Art at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, during which time the High was the only general museum in the United States with a full-time Folk Art curator. Her exhibitions of the paintings of Jimmy Lee Sudduth (for the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts) and of the sculpture of Ulysses Davis and their accompanying catalogs are considered the definitive expositions of the work of these two southern artists. During her tenure with the High, she also organized exhibitions of Bill Traylor's drawings and Louis Monza's prints, drawings, and sculpture as well as several groups shows from the museum's extensive collection and three complete re-installations of the Folk Art permanent collection galleries.