Jodi Throckmorton discusses the connections among Joan Brown's life, her painting, and the women's movement and the inspiration behind the exhibition "This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown". Throckmorton is associate curator at the San Jose Museum of Art and curator of the exhibition. "This Kind of Bird Flies Backward" is on view at SJMA through March 11, 2012.
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