I don't know about you all, but I'm not having the easiest time trying to figure out something to bring to class that communicates and shapes popular conceptions of American History. The phrase is sort of haunting me ("popular"???). Maybe that's why Thornton Dial's show at the Indianapolis Museum of Art caught my attention. Here are links to an image gallery from the IMA's website, and to a short article about it in the WSJ. The article flags a few very interesting aspects of Dial's practice and reception, pointing out his illiteracy and his art's suspension between 'modern art' and 'folk art'. They look pretty modern to me, but hey.