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John Michael
Vlach
John Michael Vlach
is one of the nation's premier scholars on the subjects of African American
folk art and plantation architecture. Vlach curated a riveting but controversial
exhibit, Back of the Big House, and is the author or editor of
eight books and over forty articles. Vlach has just released another book
through the University of North Carolina Press titled The Planter's
Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings.
Dr. Vlach is a professor of American Studies and Anthropology at The George
Washington University and serves as the director of the folklife program
there as well.