Currie Williams, Southern Folk Artist, Storyteller and Poet
Courtesy of Floria Yancey's Folk Art Gallery

Currie Williams was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and comes from a family of twelve children. During the long Sunday car rides that her Father would take them on she would hang her head out the car window and see visions.
She sees visions of old rural Mississippi and Arkansas traditions, traditions that need to be told. She is the fifth child in a family of twelve, and discovered her artistic side through the stories she told her younger siblings to keep them entertained. When she began illustrating her stories with pictures the work of taking care of them was no longer work, but play. She does that today through her art and storytelling.
Currie says that the stories told by her art are so powerful that they can’t be contained within the frames, that they “explode” onto the frames and draw you into the art itself, giving the observer that real, down-home earthy feeling about life the way it was.
She sees her talents as gifts from God and uses them to create works of art using such diverse materials as fabric, wood, canvas, oils and acrylics. She also paints on furniture and other objects, such as chairs, flower pots, candle holders, quilts and stools. There's an apple in every signature, and sometimes in the picture itself. This means every painting is as American as apple pie and you're the apple of God's eye.